{"id":14887,"date":"2015-06-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/12\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:00:00","slug":"en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/12\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NetHui 2015 (New Zealand&#8217;s Internet Governance Forum) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2015 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2015 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fifth NetHui met at Sky City, Auckland, on 8\u201310 July 2015 under the theme &#39;The Internet Is Everybody&#39;s Business.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet Society President &amp; CEO Kathryn Brown and IPv6 co-designer Bob Hinden joined as special guests, plugging the national debate into the global technical community, while NetSafe&#39;s CEO argued online safety must be redesigned around &#39;non-expert&#39; voices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With its programme co-built with the community, the citizen-led national IGF format reached full maturity \u2014 in what proved the last single-city edition before the regional roadtrip era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>NetHui 2015 (New Zealand&#39;s Internet Governance Forum)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2015 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>NetHui 2015 (New Zealand&#39;s Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>8\u201310 July 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Sky City, Auckland, New Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>The Internet Is Everybody&#39;s Business<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>InternetNZ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2015 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Guests From the Global Internet Community \u2014 the ISOC Chief and an IPv6 Designer<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Special guests: Kathryn C. Brown, Bob Hinden and Communications Minister Amy Adams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet Society President &amp; CEO Kathryn C. Brown attended, directly linking the national community to global Internet governance debates [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Bob Hinden, one of the designers of IPv6, joined as a special guest, bringing the technical community&#39;s perspective [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Communications Minister Amy Adams appeared for the third consecutive year, cementing routine government\u2013community dialogue [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Redesigning Online Safety \u2014 &#39;Harm Is Lost Benefit&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Guest post by NetSafe CEO Martin Cocker on the official site, and related discussions<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Any new technology has the potential to do good (digital opportunities) and harm (digital challenges).&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Martin Cocker (CEO, NetSafe)<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Framing harm as lost benefit, Cocker argued that reshaping the online-safety equation requires listening to &#39;non-expert&#39; voices \u2014 a role NetHui was uniquely placed to play [1]<\/li>\n<li>With the Harmful Digital Communications Act passing in 2015, combining legal remedies with community-led safety had become a live, practical question [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Community-Built Programme \u2014 the Citizen-Led IGF Matures<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The programme-development process, co-created with the community<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The programme was developed with the NZ Internet community, and InternetNZ chief executive Jordan Carter welcomed its diverse sessions on the issues shaping the Internet&#39;s future [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Officially billed as &#39;not a conference but a platform for interactive participation&#39;, NetHui doubled down on its conversation-first identity [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>It was the final single-city Auckland edition \u2014 from 2016 the event would hit the road to the regions [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Guests from the Internet&#39;s global engine room: the Internet Society&#39;s President &amp; CEO and an IPv6 co-designer joined, wiring the grassroots national debate into global technical and governance circles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the theme mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. &#39;The Internet Is Everybody&#39;s Business&#39; declared that Internet issues belong to everyone \u2014 shopkeepers, teachers, families \u2014 not just engineers and officials. Even the programme was co-written with the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Pairing legal remedies with community-led safety \u2014 and designing around &#39;non-expert&#39; voices \u2014 remains the playbook for tackling online harm anywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is New Zealand IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-newzealand-igf-2015-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2015 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 About New Zealand IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2015 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150710015026\/http:\/\/2015.nethui.nz\/\">NetHui 2015 \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u30b9\u30da\u30b7\u30e3\u30eb\u30b2\u30b9\u30c8\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u30b2\u30b9\u30c8\u5bc4\u7a3f\u30012015\u5e747\u670810\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 InternetNZ\uff08Wayback Machine\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NetHui\">NetHui<\/a> \u2014 en (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.apnic.net\/2016\/02\/19\/nzseries-establishing-nethui-the-peoples-event\/\">NZSeries: Establishing NetHui, the people&#39;s event<\/a> \u2014 APNIC Blog (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/new-zealand-igf\">New Zealand IGF\uff08\u56fd\u5225\u30a4\u30cb\u30b7\u30a2\u30c1\u30d6\u767b\u9332\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u670823\u65e5 8\u664235\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth NetHui met at Sky City, Auckland, on 8\u201310 July 2015 under the theme &#8216;The Internet Is Everybody&#8217;s Business.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,71,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2651,164],"class_list":["post-14887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-newzealand-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-newzealandigf2015","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}