Meet our team

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“The Digital Council's job is to advise government ministers…”

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“on issues and opportunities and challenges…”

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“that really matter to New Zealanders, to our economy and to our society.”

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“For me and the rest of the team at the Digital Council…”

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“it is really important that…”

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“as New Zealand continues to advance digitally…”

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“with digital and data driven technologies, that the whole of our society…”

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“and the whole of our economy is able to participate and benefit from all the…”

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“possibilities that can come from technologies.”

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“And it is absolutely crucial that we must leave no one behind.”

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"We are growing up in a digital age our kids deal with technology every day. We are on the internet all the time."

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"Being part of the Digital Council and having a say in what we’re doing out there, how we interact with those different mediums."

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"I think it is really important, now more than ever, just because of how our communities are dealing with those things. "So, what excites me about the digital world?"

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"Well, for me, it’s the possibilities."

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"The capability to create, to learn, to talk to people across vast distances..."

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"Solving problems and collaborating."

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"It is the digital space and it’s a new world that we’re working in."

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"That’s what really excites me."

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"I’m Colin Gavaghan. I am a professor down at the University of Otago and my work there involves looking at the kind of law and ethical implications of new technologies."

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"What kind of rules we’d want to get the best out of these technologies and to avoid some of the pitfalls."

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"I guess my role in the Digital Council is to bring some of that research to a wider audience of New Zealanders. Out of the ivory towers of academia, and onto the streets to speak to ordinary people."

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"But just as importantly as that is the chance to hear from those people, to hear what kind of hopes and fears they have for digital technologies.

"The excitement about the Council is really the chance to take ideas that typically are confined to academic journals and books, and actually make them real for ordinary members of society."

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"I’m Roger Dennis, and what I bring to the Council is a long term view of the world. How things are changing at the macro scale, and what that means when you start to translate it down to a country level, and what it means for the adoption and update of different technologies."

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"And the way I see the role of the Council is to ensure that we don’t get left behind."

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"And that means both individuals and as a nation..."

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"because as technology increases and new advances come out on a increasingly rapid basis..."

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"we need to understand what we can use..."

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"what is appropriate...

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"and how we don’t get left behind, either at the national level or the individual level."

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"What gets me excited about the digital world is..."

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"the fact that I can reach into my pocket and pull out a computing device, which costs about five hundred dollars."

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"Which has more computing power in it than a super-computer did in nineteen eighty four."

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"And I can talk to machines in space. That is just astonishing. And what I’m really excited about is..."

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"how do you make sure that everyone benefits from that level of advance."

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"Not just a few people, but you actually create wider societal benefit."

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