Creating a joined-up, consistent, and transparent approach around how government collects, manages, and uses the data it holds on behalf of New Zealanders. This includes developing data policy, infrastructure, strategy, and planning as well as ensuring agencies have the capability and right skills to maximise the value they get from data.
Environment Canterbury partnered with Orbica to create an online tool, opening up their rating data to engage with the public and show how funds are spent in the community.
In February and March 2016 Open Data NZ held a series of conversations with leading international open data experts, including Joel Gurin.
Changes to data, statistics and information can happen over time, and can include changes to the structure of the information to improve accuracy, relevance or efficiency or to adhere to international best practice. They may be forced due to changes in the source data for other reasons. All such changes need to be managed to ensure information is comparable over time.
Data.govt.nz is rolling out new features to make the data APIs faster and more reliable.
As such we are considering implementing a basic technical quality framework on data.govt.nz and would like your feedback on whether this approach would be useful, whether you are a data...
"Open by default" is a term bandied around when talking about open data policy. I find the phrase often helps lift the barriers rather than bring them down but if...
This implementation plan covered the period from 1 July 2021 to 31 December to 2021. The focus for this plan was on Principle 4: comparable and…
We describe the process for mandating data standards, including the groups involved in mandating standards, the proposed topics and candidates, how you can engage with the process, why it was changed, and compliance with the previous standards.
All 25 capabilities together, in no particular order. This view is useful if you want to get a complete view of the framework and the capabilities, regardless of their categories.