Trustees
Earl Mardle - Chair
Earl Mardle is an information society consultant who deals with the effect and use of information technology in organisations and the broader community. After 23 years as a current affairs broadcaster he moved to Community Access Radio and was asked by Wellington City in 1996 to establish the 2020 Communications Trust which has since grown to a national organisation with multiple affiliates through the country.
He has spent much of the last 10 years working with international organisations including the Stockholm Challenge Award, Jhai Foundation, the Development Gateway, AusAid and Bering Point. He is now an independent consultant living in Auckland.
Simon Riley - Secretary
Simon is Director of New Impact - a technology and marketing communications consulting firm which provides strategic business and communications advice and consulting services.
Simon is an advisor to Government, an ICT policy analyst, and a seasoned media professional and management consultant with a 20 year background as a producer in film, video, advertising, multimedia and the Web in
Simon is a ICT Industry commentator and all-around provocateur . As a strategic thinker, Simon is recognized for this lateral thinking and creativity combined with commercial pragmatism.
Simon has been an advocate of Information Society issues and served on the boards of a number of NZ ICT related national organizations.
Simon was one of the architects of
Simon was an elected InternetNZ Councillor from 2001 - 2007 and was instrumental in the establishment of the NGI - NZ (Next Generation Internet) Society served as the CEO.
Laurence Zwimpfer - Contracts Director
Laurence runs a private company specialising in the use of information and communication technologies in education. Since 1997 he has provided consulting and project management services to the Ministry of Education and other government and private sector organisations. Prior to that he worked in a business development role at Telecom New
Until September 2008 he was a member of the National Commission for UNESCO in
He is a Harkness Fellow with degrees in Engineering, Public Policy and Technology. In 2006, the Institution of Professional Engineers in New Zealand (IPENZ) awarded him the Rabone Award for ICT, a Supreme Technical Award for Engineering Achievers and the William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership, and in 2007, elected him as a Fellow of the Institution.
Laurence has been a trustee since 1997 and was chair from 1998 - 2000. He has provided leadership for a number of 2020 programmes including NetDay, eDay, Living Heritage, Computers in Homes and Stepping UP.
Laurence Millar - Treasurer
Laurence is an independent advisor in the use of ICT by governments, and Editor at Large for FutureGov magazine. His career has included work in the public and private sector, in the UK, USA, Asia and New Zealand.
From 2004, he led the New Zealand e-government programme providing leadership in strategy and policy, establishing a foundation of shared infrastructure, and maintaining oversight of government ICT investment; he finished in the role of NZ Government CIO on 1 May 2009.
From 1990 to 1998, he worked for the NZ government as a General Manager and as a consultant, and then continued his consulting work offshore (mainly in Asia) from 1998 to 2003. He led the strategic IT unit within PLDT (the dominant telco in the Philippines), and worked on a start-up, providing ASP and eCommerce solutions to the supply chain and distribution industries in locations from Beijing to Jakarta.
He emigrated from the UK with his family in 1983 to work for Databank Systems, having previously worked in the networking subsidiary of General Electric, focused on global banking services, and with a PC start-up.
He is married with four adult children. He became a trustee in 2009, because he feels there is a critical need for stronger leadership in the role of ICT in the community and voluntary sector, and 2020 Communications Trust is well placed to provide that leadership.
Barbara Craig - Trustee
Barbara teaches in the
Barbara has a BA from
Barbara has been a Trustee since 1998 and part of the team that developed Computers in Homes in 2000 with continuing interest in this project.
Kath Norton - Trustee
Kath is a Director of CWA New Media and Director for International Business.
Formerly as Project Director for Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI),
National Digital Content Strategy Seminar Expert, Providing advice on the 'national digitisation programme', New Zealand National Library, 2006.
Member of MoE working/reference group symposium to inform the development of the e-learning action plan for school 2006. Enabling the 21st Century Learner.
Her international work has included managing education consultancy and e-learning projects in
Curriculum Resource Specialist, OBEC Contract,
SOCCI Education Consultant, Innovation Education and Creativity, Learning Federation,
Project Manager for iNZed Malaysia Ltd of The K-Perak E-Learning Cluster in
Kath has been a Trustee since 2000 and currently looks after the Living Heritage and Positive Computing for Parents Initiatives.
Michael Wigley - Trustee
Michael is the principal of Wigley Law. He has over 25 years experience and is admitted as a solicitor both in New Zealand and in England.
His work focuses on dispute resolution, ICT, regulation/competition, sales, marketing and media. Michael is one of the few New Zealand lawyers who specialises in IT and has an extensive commercial litigation background.
He has a particular involvement in public sector procurement. Michael is president of the Technology Law Society, a member of the New Zealand Law Society's e-Commerce Law Committee, the Institute of Directors, the New Zealand Software Association, and the English Society for Computers & the Law. He frequently presents at seminars and conferences.
Sue Sutherland - Trustee
Deputy Chief Executive, National Library of NZ. Prior to that appointment was Director of Policy and Information Democracy at the National Library, leading the development of NZ's Digital Content Strategy. Former Libraries Manager, Christchurch City Libraries. Passionate about the difference that libraries can make to people's lives through the power of story and learning. Worked with inspired team in Christchurch to implement ICT innovations in libraries and learning centres, including the South Learning Centre.
Information democracy...
= knowledge, learning & participation for all.
Adele Barlow - Trustee
Adele is a researcher and entrepreneur based in London, passionate about digital media, education, and social development. With a strong interest in conscious capitalism, she co-founded youth-driven social enterprise yMedia. The yMedia Challenge is an award-winning initiative that connects tertiary students needing work experience, to community groups needing to develop their digital presence with limited funding.
She has also worked in communications and management roles with Capability NZ, the NZ Computer Society, X Media Lab, the NZ Centre for Social Innovation, and Pembridge Partners in London.
Josh Williams - Trustee
Josh Williams currently works as Project Manager Qualifications and Quality at the Industry Training Federation, supporting New Zealand's Industry Training Organisations to develop a skilled and productive workforce. Josh has spent the last 10 years working in the education sector, most of that time on issues relating to the senior secondary school, and on issues ranging from qualifications and NCEA, ICT and literacy strategies, schools regulatory policy, and policy for at-risk students. For two years he worked as a Private Secretary in the office of the Minister of Education.
Josh's first computer was an Amstrad CPC6128 that his parents could not really afford, and he's tried to keep up ever since. His interest is in how technology in the 21st century is changing the way people interact with each other and especially how it can be used to support learning across multiple contexts and for diverse and dispersed populations.
