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Virtual Committees: COVID-19 and the NZ Parliament Hans Landon-Lane Digital Lead Parliamentary Engagement The Challenge: Keeping parliament in the picture during COVID -19 restrictions Filling the role of oral questions,


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Virtual Committees: COVID-19 and the NZ Parliament

Hans Landon-Lane Digital Lead – Parliamentary Engagement

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The Challenge:

  • Keeping parliament “in the picture” during COVID-19 restrictions
  • Filling the role of oral questions, ministerial statements
  • Restrictions on attendance by MPs, public
  • Practical difficulty of virtual sittings of the House
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NZ Parliament’s response:

  • Enable virtual meetings of select committees via Zoom
  • Establish the Epidemic Response Committee
  • Digital & TV broadcast of committee proceedings
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Background:

  • Committees already widely use Zoom for

hearings of evidence & public livestreams

  • Strong business analysis in place, including

security assessments

  • Procedural limitations on digital participation
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Our actions:

  • Procedural change to enable remote participation
  • Agency-wide Zoom rollout (enterprise structure)
  • Rapid testing & developing new protocols
  • Support for MPs & other users
  • Broadcasting & media liaison
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Pt I: Models of social media disruption

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There’s nothing new under the sun.

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Characteristics of virtual committees

  • Meeting frequency varies by committee – ranging

from no meetings to ‘business as usual’

  • Security & ‘Zoom hygiene’ - Webinars vs meetings
  • Emphasis on public availability
  • Range of camera quality, experience,

connectivity… and that’s OK!

  • Secretariat staff are front and centre
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Epidemic Response Committee

  • Established unanimously after apolitical genesis
  • Opposition majority & Chair
  • Cross-party buy-in = constructive approach
  • Extremely broad remit – anything to do with COVID-19 response
  • Format: experts & sector voices presenting in person, leading

and framing conversation

  • Public visibility & media coverage a very high priority
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1936

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Audio Host Participants Custom RTMP Facebook Live API Cross posts to political party Facebook Pages Parliament Facebook Parliament Website Media

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Manual iFrame Vimeo embed for on-demand playback

Epidemic Response Committee - Broadcast & livestream workflow as at 22 April 2020

Parliament Website

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Results:

  • Extremely high levels of public engagement & media coverage
  • Good public feedback re transparency, format, “digital divide”
  • Investigations underway into ongoing committee broadcasts
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LESSONS LEARNT WHAT DO WE WANT TO RETAIN?

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Many thanks. Ngāmihinui.