Introduction1 When NZGOAL was first released in August 2010, it supported use of the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand licences. At that time, this made obvious…
The census is one of New Zealand’s most important data sources. Statistics NZ released aggregated, confidentialised data from the 2006 Census including information on age, ethnicity, income, workplace, dwelling size and other variables.
The minutes for each meeting of the Data Ethics Advisory Group from 2026, grouped by date, are summarised here.
March 2026
Meeting summaries from 2025
Meeting summaries from 2024
Meeting…
Examples of how larger businesses can gain particular advantages from using Open Data.
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.
Inspire. Guide. Illuminate. Share. And get some credit for what you know.
New open data files make it easier to analyse contract award notices published on the Government Electronic Tenders Service (GETS).
Contact details must be easy to read and use, this includes phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, and street addresses.
Phone and fax numbersWe:
use freephone (rather than…
ContentsNZGOAL copyright guide, January 2015 [PDF 248 KB]
Introduction
The nature and exercise of copyright
Copyright exists in qualifying original works
Low threshold for originality
Copyright does not protect mere facts or…
At the fifth community of practice wānanga we reminded ourselves of the Charter Maturity Model and discussed our agencies’ maturity assessments, we learnt about one agency’s experience of the implications of vendors’ using AI, and reported on our progress and how we can support one another.