Developer Alex Raichev used open data to create a web application that helps you work out the most affordable suburb to rent in and commute from.
In February and March 2016 Open Data NZ held a series of conversations with leading international open data experts, including Beth Noveck.
More than 250 data warriors, policy peeps, and those from across government, NGOs, business, and academia who want to know more about data, gathered in Wellington to talk data ethics.
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation challenged their esteemed friend Dr Bruce Tsai and his co-author Dr Ben Smith to read and interpret current emerging trends in order to foresee what the future could look like.
Mandated data standards, their importance, the current mandated standards, the topics proposed for future mandate, the process for selecting topics, and who mandates them.
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.
Our Interim Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation provides support to maximise opportunities from new and emerging data. Learn more about the centre and how you can get involved.
What will things look like when open data is “working”? Entrepreneurs, businesses, researchers, community groups and individuals will be innovating, creating new insights and acting as informed participants in government decisions.
You've seen the pronouncements about the volumes of data that power the world around us and that this is increasing exponentially. But where’s all this data coming from?
A Data Ethics Advisory Group has been convened to provide advice on data use to the Government Chief Data Steward and government agencies.