About this workstream

In this Phase 2 workstream, participants will build understanding of what internet resilience could look like in long-term climate scenarios, as experienced by communities, households, businesses, and New Zealand society more broadly.

Activities in this workstream

  1. Scenario Workshop 1: 23 September, 12pm, online. This workshop focused on participants sharing experiences (their own and those known to them) around internet infrastructure resilience (both what worked/helped and where connectivity issues impacted) in a Climate change context (e.g. during severe weather events) as well as introduce and explore some future climate scenarios and timelines. Further information about this workshop is below. Slides from the session can be viewed here.
  2. Scenario Workshop 2: 7 October, 12pm, online. This workshop further explored climate scenarios, including risks and infrastructure pressures, and we will start to build details for scenarios around what community and internet infrastructure resilience could look like in a long term context. Earth Sciences New Zealand and the Climate Change Commission joined to present some of their work and thinking and discuss with the Network. Slides and notes from the session available to Network members here in Google Drive.
  3. Scenarios workshop 3: 21 October, 12pm, online. In this workshop, participants will further develop visions of internet Infrastructure and community resilience in a future climate scenario.

21 October Scenario Workshop 3 – Information for Attendees

Key agenda items in this workshop will be:

Suggested reading for this workstream

Concepts of resilience

The following sections in the IICR Backgrounder will be useful reading ahead of time:

Potential climate futures

The following documents are useful to be familiar with: