{"id":14891,"date":"2017-06-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/01\/en-newzealand-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"en-newzealand-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/01\/en-newzealand-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NetHui 2017 (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-2017-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2017 \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-2017-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2017 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The seventh NetHui met at Auckland&#39;s Aotea Centre on 9\u201310 November 2017 under the theme &#39;Trust and Freedom on the Internet&#39;, returning to a national format after the 2016 roadtrip.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Keynotes came from Jillian York, the EFF&#39;s Director for International Freedom of Expression, and Pia Waugh, rebuilding government services through open source \u2014 in the year disinformation and platform distrust erupted worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With a new government just formed after the general election, the forum openly asked what the change would mean for Internet policy \u2014 a study in what a national IGF does at a moment of political transition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>NetHui 2017 (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-2017-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2017 \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 2017 (New Zealand&#39;s Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>9\u201310 November 2017, with Day 0 events on 8 November<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Trust and Freedom on the Internet<\/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-2017-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2017 \u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Trust and Freedom \u2014 a Seventh-Year Question at a Political Turning Point<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Theme-setting and event announcement (&#39;What impact could a new government have on the conversation?&#39;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organisers framed the event around an explicit question \u2014 what impact could the new government have on the conversation? \u2014 following the 2017 general election [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Official notices described NetHui as having grown in seven years into New Zealand&#39;s largest meetup of the Internet community, with every session built around the twin pillars of trust and freedom [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>A Day 0 of community-run side events on 8 November extended the two-day main programme [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Jillian York&#39;s Keynote \u2014 Free Expression and Digital Security<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Jillian York, EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berlin-based York specialises in free expression, privacy and digital security \u2014 &#39;a perfect fit&#39;, organisers said, for the trust-and-freedom theme [2]<\/li>\n<li>Her presence brought the platform-moderation-versus-censorship debate, soon to grow much larger, into the national conversation [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Pia Waugh&#39;s Keynote \u2014 Reinventing Government Services With Open Source<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Pia Waugh of the government&#39;s Service Innovation Work Programme<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A standard-bearer for open government and open data, Waugh was then reinventing government services through open source at NZ&#39;s Service Innovation Work Programme [3]<\/li>\n<li>Her argument that tech culture can deliver better policy, engagement and public services put public-sector digital transformation on the main agenda [3]<\/li>\n<li>She also pressed the principle that publicly funded data, software and research should return public benefit [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Why &#39;Trust and Freedom&#39;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. 2017 was the year disinformation and platform distrust erupted globally. The theme framed the tension \u2014 restoring trust in the Internet without sacrificing freedom \u2014 in a New Zealand context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the election have to do with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A new government had just taken office after nine years. Organisers openly asked how it would change the conversation, making NetHui the community&#39;s first pass at the new Internet-policy landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Putting an EFF free-expression advocate and an open-source government reformer on the same stage models how to debate digital policy from both the rights and the delivery side.<\/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-2017-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"New Zealand IGF 2017 \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 2017 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\/20171026060350\/https:\/\/2017.nethui.nz\/\">NetHui 2017 \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fbDay 0\u544a\u77e5\u30012017\u5e7410\u670826\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 InternetNZ\uff08Wayback Machine\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171026215144\/http:\/\/2017.nethui.nz\/blog\/announcing-our-speakers\">Announcing our speakers!\uff08\u30b8\u30ea\u30a2\u30f3\u30fb\u30e8\u30fc\u30af\u57fa\u8abf\u8b1b\u6f14\u30fbMC\u767a\u8868\uff09<\/a> \u2014 InternetNZ\uff08Wayback Machine\u30fbNetHui 2017\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171026215554\/http:\/\/2017.nethui.nz\/blog\/another-amazing-keynote-announced\">Another amazing keynote announced\uff08\u30d4\u30a2\u30fb\u30ef\u30fc\u57fa\u8abf\u8b1b\u6f14\u767a\u8868\uff09<\/a> \u2014 InternetNZ\uff08Wayback Machine\u30fbNetHui 2017\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\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:\/\/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\u670813\u65e5 19\u664256\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 seventh NetHui met at Auckland&#8217;s Aotea Centre on 9\u201310 November 2017 under the theme &#8216;Trust and Freedom on the Internet&#8217;, returning to a <\/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":[163,161,160,162,2653,164],"class_list":["post-14891","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-newzealandigf2017","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","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=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}