Kia ora S Fitzgerald

 

Official information request regarding Gama Foundation and Bryce Edwards

 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 11 February 2025.

 

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any event no later than 11 March 2025, being 20 working days after the day
your request was received.

 

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Ngâ mihi,

 

Blair Doherty

Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy

Legal Services

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

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-----Original Message-----
From: S. Fitzgerald <[FOI #30034 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2025 11:00 am
To: OIA Requests <[VUW request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Gama Foundation and Bryce Edwards

 

Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

 

Under the OIA I require the following:

 

In this 2023 article in The Press:

 

[2]https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

 

VUW published the following statement on behalf of Dr Bryce Edwards:

 

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"In a statement via the university, Edwards said the main research outputs
– including a book – are scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2024. A
‘Web of Influence’ public database will be published in October, and ‘case
studies’ later this year and early next year.

 

There was no Political Integrity Index NZ for 2022, but it will launch at
the election, and ‘vested interest’ public campaigns are still being
developed, the statement said. “The main public campaign, so far, has been
to get the issue of political lobbying onto the public agenda in order to
initiate reform.”

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1. Please provide all communications (in any form), progress reports, and
updates etc regarding the “book” Mr Edwards refers to that is scheduled to
be delivered “at the end of 2024”.

 

2. Please provide all communications (in any form), progress reports, and
updates etc regarding the ‘Web of Influence’ public database Mr Edwards
refers to that will be published “in October [2023]”.

 

3. Please provide all communications (in any form), progress reports, and
updates etc regarding the “case studies” Mr Edwards refers to that will be
published “later this year [2023] and early next year [2024].”

 

4. Please provide all communications (in any form), progress reports, and
updates etc regarding the “Political Integrity Index NZ” Mr Edwards refers
to that will “launch at the [2023] election.”

 

5. Please provide all communications (in any form) between the Gama
Foundation and VUW between 15 May 2023 and today, 11 February 2025.

 

6. Please provide all communications (in any form) to and from Bryce
Edwards and any person regarding the Gama Foundation OR the projects the
Gama Foundation was funding between 15 May 2023 and today, 11 February
2025.

 

7. Please provide all communications (in any form) or reports regarding
the outputs from Bryce Edwards resulting from the funding received by the
Gama Foundation.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

S. Fitzgerald

 

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