 Wisi gobi i asia i t Love yersanei kerura kai wisi i te nèirola,problemân. te Momonō torque i kaff N'ap用i i gamportant k divina I te di di di nere Di gotiusi i tia i tia i tia i tia i tia The bird from the north of New Zealand prize out and has something to say. The bird from the south, the titi, does the same and I hope I can say something useful and greetings to everyone. Look, it is a real pleasure to be talking to the National Digital Forum because it is a grouping of people. We should be so hugely proud of what we have achieved together and already we have been talking about the situation in New Zealand where we have worked together across sectors in the most. It really is, I think, probably a uniquely kiwi way. So what I want to do this morning, given the technical people a real nightmare because I am using some old technology, some old images to go back and show you what we were thinking in the NDF. Basically what I have been asked to do this morning is to talk a little bit from the inside when I was inside Wellington and so from the inside out. And now at Lincoln University from the outside in and share those two different experiences. I am going to use some examples and then I am going to use the Canterbury earthquakes to show how it all came together and what an extraordinary, important readiness of the glam sector in that event. Now I am going to fast forward and I am going to ask you to think of some, I suppose, new challenges for the NDF. From the outside in I am now part of the science system, the research sector in New Zealand and I want to offer some challenges to the NDF of things I want you to fix, actually. There are some very, very, I do not want you to be complacent, certainly we have done well but I think there are some really difficult issues that we need to reverse together. But before I launch in, I am going to go very, very quickly so you are going to have to fasten your seatbelts. It is appropriate, I think, to acknowledge Sam Jackson, Sam is a commata of the National Library of New Zealand and of course I cannot be into Papa without remembering Sen Bennington and Paul Reynolds. There is a huge deal but they are with us in spirit. If I look back about six years, possibly a little bit more, we really have had an extraordinary opportunity, everything has changed. I think six or eight years ago, I do not think any of us really realised just how extraordinary the transformation was going to be with the digital environment. I remember sort of looking quizzically at the time magazine, I think it was 2006, boys had person of the year and that year in 2006 said the person of the year is you. It was really starting to say that we were starting to understand the extraordinary democratisation of information and the shift in power, I suppose, to the individual citizen, the citizens created content. As I said, the democratising power, so some of that power balance, I suppose, between august, authoritative institutions, cultural institutions and scientific institutions, I think we were starting to see quite a shift. And in those, even six years ago, we were starting to, in New Zealand, like many countries, we were trying to sort of make sense of the digital world that we were in, remember the digital strategy, remember the digital content strategy. But our vision was to have a connected New Zealand and a connecting community and businesses with government and some of the cultural institutions that are here in Wellington. The digital strategy provided some opportunity for us because for the first time in our lives we actually got this money from the community partnership fund and this was extraordinarily exciting to us. And I haven't looked at what that funding did. Now this slide is seriously embarrassing and it used to annoy the hell out of Paul Reynolds because he thought I was very sad in what I was trying to explain. But here we've got community partnership money for people who remember Kete Parapanua, that wonderful open source project with that community repository that is now underpinning the community infrastructure of the whole country. And that was from that time. And at that time we're trying to figure out how we would bring it all together in a constigital New Zealand which is, you know, we're championing and honouring today. It's so relevant to the access strategy of our infrastructure in New Zealand. That was developed on a song in terms of funny. If you think of the European investment of the multi-millions of euros, Digital New Zealand has developed on about $1.2 million. Now it's seen a lot to us in those days. But this was our attempt to sort of say how would we connect New Zealand with the baskets of knowledge and how would we have that kind of access and sharing mechanism across it. So Kete, DMZ, both very important. The other funding that was I think quite significant for us was around the Aotearoa People's Network. And that really set up that free democratised information around the country. It was also worth noting it was a managed service. It was powered by a national institution, the National Library, but the communities, they didn't care that it was powered by the National Library. In that community it meant that their community, their local library, museum or art code, was basically championing and the citizens front door to the digital age. So those were very important investments for us. The one that I'm kind of in will be really, really somewhere. The thing that is really important that they can be part of our infrastructure was the, and this was a lot of money, $24 million to build a capability around digital preservation in New Zealand. It was with the National Library in New Zealand and even more remarkably successive governments invested in digital preservation. And in the middle of the global economic crisis another $12.4 million went to our cars in New Zealand to leverage that capability of the National Library. And I think digital preservation is really, I'm going to talk about it a little bit later, but it is really a great strategy for perpetual access. So we can and could with that expenditure, all of the digital images that your and digital concepts and web archiving, theoretically we could then as a country guarantee that the taonga of our communities, our cultural institutions could theoretically be accessible in a 50 and 100 years time. And so too we were able as a country to transfer how knowledge, ideas, creativity are transferred, protected and understood in a digital age. We should not underestimate the significance of that. So as a country we have built, and the India was right at the heart of this, a very light infrastructure about access to digital New Zealand and preservation. So we got the access and preservation mix right, but also we got the Wellington and community mix right as well. So the other thing that I know this is going to be seriously boring to everyone, but I do want to make a great case I suppose for book policy. And the New Zealand Government came to the party with one of the most regressive, open access licensing, open access to data and information. And that policy then set goal over the creative commons licensing underpinning it. I hope you're starting to see just how profound the whole of this light infrastructure across this country has begun and has developed. And so that in many ways is the inside, those for my reflections from inside Wellington and didn't mean anything. What was the impact which is what's going to be, we're going to be talking about during the conference. And of course I was in Christchurch in September 2010 when the earthquakes, the first big earthquake hit was absolutely terrifying. And I left Christchurch, come up on Monday morning emergency meeting with the Government departments. And I left on that phone, I remember it distinctly, with what's the role of the National Library, what's the role of the Cultural Institution in this? Because I knew that the documentary heritage from the Navy earthquakes had not been well documented. And I never really knew why, and I didn't know why, because when you're in the middle of something so frightening, the last thing you're going to do is document it. So I left Christchurch that morning with the kind of authoritative published material kind of hat on. And by the time I got to Wellington, you know, I basically realised that we needed to change the whole paradigm of what a Cultural Institution and what the NDF is about. So we put photographers into the field straight away. We put old historians into the field. And what an extraordinary readiness in all of the structures that I've talked about, absolutely extraordinary. And, you know, we were creating history on the fly, and I kept this particular image, because remember this was September, before February, we didn't know we were going to have any more. But look at that bit of history there. Over 700 felt in the first week, and more expected. Well, 6,000 more is, you know, so basically what happened at the University of Canterbury is that they invested some 1.3 million dollars into setting up a nexus, a digital repository. Well, not basically harvesting repository on community stories, on sound images data. And the seismic database remains today as one of the most profound research archives potentially. And so we really do need to pause there and say we did something absolutely amazing. So looking now fast forward, and really the thing that underpins all of this is that it's only been done through collaboration. And that's what the NDF is absolutely all about. Convergence and collaboration, because if you get the costs with a digital object, as an archives object or a library object or a museum object, it simply doesn't matter. But if I fast forward now to the outside of Wellington perspective, and I've got five minutes to do this, I'll do it very quickly, then I want to give you another scenario and start laying down some challenges. Now, in April this year, remember I'm in the science system now, and I'm going to argue that science is heritage too, and I really want this to be on your agenda. Minister Joyce, and that's the concept of the Lincoln Innovation Hub. It will bring together well over 900 scientists involved in the science and research that underpin something like 70% of New Zealand's exports, 12% of our GDP, those land-based environmental industries. So what basically brings together Ag Research, Bannecare, Lincoln University, Croppenfood, Plantenfood and Dairy New Zealand, so they basically now it leads me to the challenges of the Lincoln Hub. We're bringing together a data project working with national institutions like the National Library, Nessie, Riannes, hopefully the Ministry of the Environment to look at how as a country we begin to manage and curate data, and this is one of the things. The first thing, I think just as we had a policy coherence around open, in some cases the government's policy on open government, open information, what the government was trying to do there was to basically unlock data and information. And in some ways, recycle it. And what we've found in terms of science policy is the disjunct. So we've got open policy on one hand and the science system in New Zealand is actually very cryptic from outside New Zealand. The science ministry is now absorbed into a mega ministry. There's a lot of capability lost. And there's a lack of coherence in science funding. We spend tens of millions of dollars on research funding, but we don't have the policy that ensures that any public expenditure in science, a public expenditure needs to be publicly accessible. And there's a disjunct. And I really do would love people to start thinking about the policy framework around New Zealand's science as we have on government information. I suppose I ask how serious we are about open. And here I'm going to make a very brief point. It's just simply mad that the creative commons that underpins so much of work in New Zealand is struggling for funding. It's fundamental to the government's policy about open. And it should, in my view, be funded by the government. And we're not talking a lot of money here. About $200,000 would do it. So that's another challenge. I do believe we need to get that policy coherence. And how, as you look across the state of our rivers, our waters in Canterbury, the research underpinning, daring in New Zealand, the impacts of global warming, we now need to be able to curate, manage and replicate data. And so we must, I believe, as a forum, become much more serious about our science system. We must never, I think—some of you are old enough to remember—when the DSIR was deconstructed or reconstructed or whatever in the 80s, we lost a huge amount of New Zealand science, the data, the science, and it was never, ever happened again. So we need to, I think, start—I really want Wellington to get serious, I suppose, about the science system. And I suppose the final thing is that we are, as I speak, deleting so much of our cultural memory, our research infrastructure. And so digital preservation never probably the most appealing topic, I think, really needs that enduring access on all of those 27 million objects in digital New Zealand. We must never, ever lose them. So in winding up, one of the things that I worry about is, do we need to worry about our intellectual sovereignty in terms of the digital world? How much of our data is actually offshore or in cloud, and are there questions around keeping a New Zealand sovereignty in terms of some of the intellectual digital assets that we have? It's a question I raise, and I'd be really happy to debate and talk to people about it. So in summary, I have gone back six, eight years to a national digital forum that has done an incredible job. We've built infrastructure that is relevant to today. Light, digital New Zealand, kete, the digital preservation capability, the policy framework about open government. I landed in the Christchurch earthquakes to say thank you. I think we can, in our generation, feel assured that that extraordinary event in New Zealand's history will be well-recorded, documented, understood, and re-engaged with over time. And that is a real tribute to the forum. And then I've laid down some challenges to say that the science system in New Zealand, the research system needs your attention as we look at the complex issues of data curation, intellectual sovereignty, open, and some of the policy frameworks and the policy dissonance that I think we need to resolve. So I am so pleased to be here. I can now get off the stage and enjoy the conference. I want to end in saying I have huge respect for this forum and I'm delighted to be part of it again.