Let me tell you about the Statistics Act. It sets out the law for official statistics and it enables Stats New Zealand to provide access to…
Obviously, data.govt.nz often includes numbers, dates, and times. To ensure that these are easy to read and understand, we follow clear rules and guidelines.
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The data confidentiality report which looks at best practice principles and methodology-related content, produced by Stats NZ.
Public Service Commission ask agencies to disclose their Departmental Secretary or Chief Executive Expenses at least annually. Data.govt.nz allows you to self-manage the update process to the CE Expenses datasets. This allows agencies to publish faster and meet the disclosure deadline.
This page lays out the reasons behind the refreshed Government Sytem Strategy and Roadmap for Aotearoa NZ. It provides background context for the development of the refreshed strategy and roadmap and previous versions of the Government Data Strategy and Roadmap.
This week the Minister of Statistics James Shaw, launched the Algorithm Charter for Aotearoa New Zealand. The charter has already been signed by more than 20 government agencies. The Charter signals that these agencies are committed to being consistent, transparent and accountable in their use of algorithms.
Open data is a core component of our world’s increasing digital economy, providing opportunity to generate significant social and economic benefits to our society.
In 2011 Charities Services (then the Charities Commission) made advanced search functionality available for the Charities Register and licensed the data for re-use under a Creative Commons BY licence.
Algorithms have an essential role to play in supporting the delivery of government services to people in New Zealand. The government must ensure that data ethics are embedded in its work, and always keep in mind the people and communities being serviced by these tools.
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.