Policy-model contributor with a documented institutional governance role
William Perrin
William Perrin is credited alongside Lorna Woods in Australia's published Online Safety Act review for the conception of a digital duty of care. Carnegie UK's 2023 report also lists him as a trustee and member of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Two kinds of responsibility
The review's section on the overarching duty attributes the conception to Woods and Perrin. Separately, Carnegie's 2023 accounts identify the trustee body's responsibility for strategy and budgets, with implementation delegated to management. Perrin's committee membership places him within that governance structure; the public roster does not disclose his vote on a specific programme decision.
Prior local kidron-money.md records an Indigo grant to5Rights and William Perrin's trustee/grant-governance role; that is a useful older money lead, not refreshed here. Indigo's current biography returned a redirect page. No new financial edge should rely on that failed refresh. The most discriminating remaining records are the review's drafting correspondence and submission-response matrix, contemporary consultation invitations/version logs, and the grant agreements funding the relevant Australian advocacy work. Public statements alone do not resolve approval rights or earmarking.
Carnegie's2023 report separately identifies its endowment and its own governing board as resources and decision-makers. Perrin was a trustee and Audit and Risk Committee member in that report. The trustees set strategy/budgets, with execution delegated to management. A donor's restricted purpose constrains permissible expenditure; the published accounts do not reveal a donor veto over conclusions, ministerial appointments, draft wording or publication.
Carnegie's22November2021 announcement credits Frontier Technology, a Minderoo Foundation initiative, for financial support of its advice to the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues. Woods/Perrin carried the systems/risk approach into that advice. This is attributable financial support for a named international output. It is not evidence the UN adopted all its recommendations, or that Minderoo dictated them. Amount and agreement remain absent; do not count this as a new additional grant outside the accounts' project funding.