Internet infrastructure climate resilience: action research in Aotearoa

Data Workstream Launch

September 2025

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Mauri oho

Mauri tū

Mauri ora ki a tātou

Haumi e, Hui e, Tāiki e!

Meeting agenda

1. Welcome and about the data best practice workstream
2. Ground rules for discussion
3. Data round table discussion
4. Reflections on the discussion
5. Next steps

Envisioning data best practice: data round tables

Outcome: shared understanding of the current and potential future state of data use to support Internet infrastructure climate resilience.

This workstream will:

• explore how infrastructure and geohazard (and other) data can help support Internet resilience in climate change in Aotearoa
• Build understanding of what is going well and where there are opportunities to do things differently to support resilience
• give participants an opportunity to share their perspective and hear from others working with data.

About this workstream’s activities

• Data Roundtable 1: sharing experiences of how data has supported internet infrastructure resilience in the context of climate change and/or where systemic data issues have hindered or slowed action from taking place.
• Data Roundtable 2 to develop visions of what data collection, use and sharing could look like in the future to support resilience.
• Work to develop an output that can be shared within the Network and publicly (led by project team)

Why data: backgrounder snippets

Understanding and mapping New Zealand’s physical internet infrastructure

How to support a holistic understanding of all New Zealand’s physical internet infrastructure, how data is held across a variety of infrastructure owners, researchers and sectors and made available.

Plus consistent hazard data to inform future decisions

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Goal: take stock of the current state and explore actions that could ensure integrated, nationally-consistent information about internet infrastructure and the climate hazards that might affect it

Why data? What is ‘best practice’?

1. Understanding and prediction
2. Informed decision-making
3. Driving innovation in resilience

Phase 2: How have we and can we best use data

Phase 3: How can we best collect, sharing and meet needs of those who will and can use data

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Lifelines: data for decisions

East Coast Exchange: data for response

About the round table discussion

• Two rounds where everyone will get a chance to speak – introductions and sharing experiences, with a focus on specific examples where possible
• Facilitated by Anna and Kelly – we’ll nominate next speakers, ask follow up questions and keep our discussion to time
• If there are questions from other participants during the round table, please put in the chat or hold onto it until the end
• The second round of discussion will operate under Chatham House rule – “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”

Round table topic 1: introductions

We would like to hear:

• a bit about you and where you are calling in from
• what brings you here today (to this workstream)
• what is your specific interest in data in relation to Internet infrastructure and climate resilience.

Round table topic 2: sharing experiences

Each person will have 3 minutes to share their experiences of the current state of infrastructure and hazard data to support Internet resilience in the context of climate change

• What are the challenges you have faced?
• What are the opportunities you have identified?

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NOTE: If you do not have a specific role in regards to data collection, sharing and use for Internet resilience, you are welcome to be a listener for this round.

Reflections from the round table

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Next steps

• The research team will pull together key themes they heard in this roundtable and circulate to participants for their information
• The second roundtable will be on 14 October and focus on visions for data best practice to support Internet resilience

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Tihei Mauri Ora

Thank you!

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www.internetresilience.nz

team-iicr@brainbox.institute

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