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This page provides updates for the Internet Infrastructure Climate Resilience Research project.

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IICR Research Outputs launched at Connecting Aotearoa Summit 2026

13 May 2026

We’re launching two reports at the Connecting Aotearoa Summit 2026 in Wellington.

• Towards a Shared Understanding of Internet Resilience: focuses on sharing the vision for Internet resilience and 5Rs framework for Internet infrastructure resilience that were developed with the IICR Network, as tools for building shared understanding and supporting collaborative action around Internet resilience.

  Report: Towards a Shared Understanding of Internet Resilience.pdf

• Actions to Support Internet Infrastructure Climate Resilience: provides recommendations from the IICR research team around six interconnected themes for action in support of Internet infrastructure climate resilience being built and maintained in the long-term.

  IICR Report: Actions to Support Internet Infrastructure Climate Resilience.pdf

Project update: building Internet infrastructure climate resilience in Aotearoa

2 December 2025

The Internet Infrastructure Climate Resilience (IICR) research project looks at Internet infrastructure resilience in the context of climate change, with a focus on what is needed to support community resilience. In November, we hit a big milestone: the completion of our project Phase 2. We are proud of the work to date, and are excited to share this update with our broader community.

Over the past few months, the research team worked alongside a network of collaborators on three key issue areas in support of the project goals. IICR Network members have broad experience and expertise in Internet infrastructure and climate resilience, including people from the telecommunications industry, community organisations, and the public sector.

This phase of the research focused on three workstreams:

• Mapping initiatives that support Internet infrastructure and climate resilience to better understand what’s underway, how they intersect, and any gaps,
• Developing positive scenarios for communications resilience in 2050, focusing on the needs of communities, and
• Roundtable discussions to understand what fit-for purpose data to support resilience looks like and what the current gaps are.

Workstream updates

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Mapping Internet resilience in action

The primary goal of this mapping is to bring together a shared understanding of work happening at different levels to inform our research. The research team has now produced a prototype interactive map of initiatives underway and will continue to work with the Network to add content in the next few months. We will also consider how this tool can be made available to a wider audience and what is needed to maintain it over time.

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