I recently contributed to a submission on the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill, a rather rushed and ill-considered piece of legislation that has massive potential for abuse by future governments, and which places unreasonable costs and procedures on people providing Internet services. The introduction reads: We explain in this Select Committee submission our opposition…

Publons is a Wellington-based startup that provides academic peer review as a service, with the ultimate goal of speeding up science. They graduated from the Lightning Lab accelerator programme [see my post on why Lightning Lab is so cool], and I recently took up position as lead investor in their angel round. Here’s their pitch…

Dame Susan Devoy was recently appointed Race Relations Commissioner, amidst some controversy.  Like many, I was surprised by the appointment – I’d expected someone to be appointed to the position had some experience in the field, and was known to practitioners. It’s a done deal now – the appointment has been made, and I think…

I was recently interviewed about why we invested in Lightning Lab, New Zealand’s first digital accelerator.  Here’s the YouTube clip: We’d been wanting to start an accelerator for the last few years in Wellington, and when CreativeHQ pulled together the key players, we quickly jumped on board.  So why did we invest in the accelerator…