Free advice for public IT projects

This article was first published at The Spinoff.

News of Auckland Council’s IT cost blowout, and the tediously predictable way in which it happened, had eyes rolling up and down New Zealand yesterday. With $1.2 billion dollars spent and…

Top Myths about Online Voting

This article was first published by The Spinoff as “The Bullshit and Myths of Online Voting”.

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. This is a refrain we should keep in mind wherever we can, because a little knowledge is not enough to know just…

My oral submission to parliament regarding Online Voting

On the 30th of July, 2015, I was able to make an in-person submission to the Justice & Elections Select Committee, which was holding a (routine) inquiry into the 2014 New Zealand general election. What follows is a rough transcript.