On Newshub Nation: Simon Shepherd interviews
head of The National Cyber Policy Office Paul
Ash
Our next guest is one of the
architects of the Christchurch Call.
He’s been in every
meeting throughout its development
You won’t know him –
but the Prime Minister relies on him.
Director of our
National Cyber Policy Office Paul Ash joins me
now.
Simon Shepherd – thank you very
much for your time. I know you’ve just come back from the
United States. Was the Christchurch Call actually your
idea?
Paul Ash: Kia ora, Simon, and thank you for
the opportunity to talk about the Christchurch Call.
Immediately that the attacks happened, we as a team needed
to provide advice to the Prime Minister on how we might
respond to the attacks and, in particular, the use of online
platforms. We provided advice to the effect that we were
going to need to look at some form of collaborative and
voluntary solution, and we were going to have to work
internationally, including with the major tech platforms, as
a way of trying to grapple with this problem and come up
with constructive…
