New Fellows and Councillors announced

At our AGM on 27 July 2023, we had the pleasure of announcing three new fellows and three newly elected council members.

Fellows

Since 1998, InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa has been recognising members of the New Zealand Internet community with fellowships. These are awarded to those who have made a particular contribution to the development of the Internet in New Zealand or to the Society.

We are proud to announce our three new fellows: 

  • Dr Karaitiana Taiuru 
  • Ivan Lomax 
  • Leon Symes  

Karaitiana Taiuru was recognisied as a highly accomplished Māori technology ethicist specialising in Māori rights with AI, Māori data sovereignty and governance with emerging digital technologies and biological sciences. 

Karaitiana has been working with InternetNZ and advocating for Māori, and Te ao Māori in technology since the early 2000s. He put forward the successful proposal of the second-level registration option .māori.nz and this was one of the first indigenous language domain names in the world. Karaitiana has been the .iwi.nz moderator since the year 2000. 

Ivan Lomax and Leon Symes have been recognised for their tenacity, dedication and commitment to internet connectivity and affordability for underserved communities. Through partnership and friendship, they have worked tirelessly to create more equitable technological outcomes for whānau in need. 

Congratulations to Karaitiana, Ivan and Leon. Thank you for your contribution to the development of the Internet here in Aotearoa.

You can see a list of all InternetNZ Fellows here: InternetNZ Fellows

New Council positions

At our 2023 AGM, we also announced three positions to Council that were elected by InternetNZ members. 

The votes were scrutinised, and we are happy to confirm the successful candidates:

  • Kate Pearce
  • Potaua Biasiny-Tule 
  • Stephen Judd

Congratulations to the three successful members. The Council is looking forward to working with you in these roles.

Thank you very much to everyone who stood to represent the InternetNZ members. 

We would like to acknowledge Don Stokes, our outgoing Council member. Don was a Councillor from 1998 to 2000 and then elected to InternetNZ Council again in 2017-2023. Thank you for the contribution you have made while you held these roles. InternetNZ is better for your work. 

You can see a list of the full Council here: InternetNZ Council members

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