About this guidance
This guidance is intended to be high-level, introducing basic concepts to stimulate further investigation and thinking. There are various pieces of work underway to…
Guidance provided by the Data Ethics Advisory Group.
This is the first report-back and review of the Open Data Implementation Plan launched in March 2018 to support joining the International Open Data Charter.
The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's March 2026 newsletter.
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.
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…
The minutes for each meeting of the Data Ethics Advisory Group, grouped by date, are summarised here.
23 November 2023
2 October 2023
22 August 2023
21 June 2023
23 May…
Getting started
Don’t repeat yourself
Where and how to publicly release your code?
What to include in your first code release
Working in the open
Safe configuration practices
Release early and often
Version…
At the closing of the Open Government Data Programme, Stats NZ commissioned Martin Jenkin to carry out an independent review of the Open Data Programme. The…