The data.govt team will be migrating currently listed datasets across to CKAN - the internationally recognised open data catalogue platform - as part of the release of the new data.govt.nz.
Data.govt.nz's datasets, organisations and groups can be accessed and queried as JSON date through the metadata API; this page describes how.
Ok, so I'm in the middle of data migration for the new data.govt.nz open data portal at the moment and thought I'd take a moment to highlight something that:
The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's May 2025 newsletter. The newsletter comes out quarterly, full of news, commentary, opinion, and education.
The initial terms of reference for the New Zealand Government-Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa Algorithm Charter Community of Practice outlines the purpose, role, and membership of the CoP in its establishment phase.
Using the ckanapi-exporter tool you can extract all dataset metadata into a single CSV file.
This report summarises the self assessments of fourteen government agencies and their use of algorithms, focusing on areas that most directly impact decisions related to people.
Algorithm…
The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's March 2026 newsletter.
ContentsIntroduction and context
Copyright, databases and datasets
The law as stated in NZGOAL
Developments since NZGOAL was approved in 2010
Suitability of Creative Commons licences for copyright databases and datasets
Consideration…
A detailed set of guidelines for creating a steady state data flow map