Trustees

Laurence Millar - Chair

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.

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 Canada and Australia, including independent producer with the National Film Board of Canada.

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 Wellington’s Infocity initiative in which he founded 2020 Communications Trust in 1996 and continues to serves as a Trustee.

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

Earl Mardle - Trustee

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.

Barbara Craig - Trustee

Barbara teaches in the School of Policy and Implementation at the College of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. She offers courses on the policy and usage of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education and community/family settings. Her current research interests include examining the use of Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning, evaluating aggregated learning networks (the Wellington Loop that connects city schools and tertiary institutions) and research into family and community responses to new technologies including social networking. She has long been involved in research projects evaluating community ICT projects and through this work is connected to the international Community Informatics Research Network. Through this network she has been involved in developing evaluation frameworks for measuring social, educational and economic benefits of digital connections.

Barbara has a BA from Canterbury University and an M Ed from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts where she first became involved in research in educational computing working with early education software developers. She is currently completing a PhD at the Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Melbourne.

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

David Barrow - Trustee

David is an experienced and valued communications professional, first with many years involvement in the central

government sector, but now in the community and voluntary sector. He is passionate about technology-especially the web as a key business tool for any organisation.

David is currently Communications & Development Manager for the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations. As a national umbrella organisation, NZFVWO identifies and focuses on issues that are important to the sector and does something about them. He sees strong parallels between the Trust and NZFVWO's work in advancing sector ICT.

In his current role, David promotes a number of ICT capacity-building initiatives and is keen to facilitate awareness about and access to ICT tools to the benefit of all sector groups.
David sees his new role with the Trust as one where he can now more actively focus on sector ICT proficiency. He is active in exploring with government and other players ways to grow sector ICT competence and how problems might be better addressed via dedicated strategy and funding.

He is also a strong believer in bringing training and skill development opportunities to community organisations. David has already played a key role in the development of Wellington ICT's e-Engage Your Community conferencing model and is now rolling-out the first national community & voluntary sector ICT conference in 2011.

Hazel Jennings - Trustee

Hazel is an IT professional focussed on digital literacy in management and governance. After a 20 year career in the UK working for technology manufacturers, Hazel moved to NZ with her family in 2002 and became a citizen in 2010. Her kiwi career has been spent on the consumer side of the IT industry; working in turn for AUT, the University of Auckland the Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind. Today Hazel is an independent consultant supporting non-technical leaders with responsibility for IT budgets and services.

In 2008 Hazel initiated, and now chairs, the Auckland not-for-profit IT Leader's Forum. She works to build bridges between the IT industry and the non-profit sector as a member of the New Zealand Computer Society's national council, an executive councillor of Social Development Partners (formally NZFVWO) and, since November 2010 as a 2020 Trustee.

Kim Humpherson - Trustee

Kim started her working life as a Clothing Technician, but switched to ICT after completing a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University as an adult student and started in a position with the State Services Commission. Her role for most of her time with the Commission involved support for a government sector online collaboration tool.

In 2008 Kim moved to a role as a Business Analyst with the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). A year later, she was introduced to the 2020 Communications Trust when she was awarded a Chief Executive Internship. This allowed her to work with the Trust for a period of five and a half months. One of the standout learnings from her time with the Trust was the number of people in New Zealand who do not have a computer or access to the internet at home. This prompted her to write a report on the level of disconnection in New Zealand on her return to DIA.

As a Business Analyst, Kim has an interest in discovering ways in which to engage non users and to convince them of the social, educational and employment opportunities open to them through the use of technology.

Piripi Moore - Trustee

Profile to come.