New videos by Stats NZ brings panellists together to examine and debate Māori perspectives about the way we collect, share, and use data.
Summaries of meetings of the Data Ethics Advisory Group.
Infoshare, a self-service open online data tool on Stats NZ’s website, contains over 30 million aggregated, confidentialised, time-series data.
In May 2005, Environment Canterbury began releasing public transport data for re-use. The data includes route details, bus stop locations, scheduling details, as well as the real time bus estimated time of arrivals (ETAs).
Open data discussion forums, websites and meetups where you can get (and share) information and ideas about the innovative use of open data.
The Salvation Army has published its independent monitoring report, ‘State of the Nation’, for the past eight years. This aims to encourage public debate around New Zealand’s social progress.
Stats NZ hosted it’s final Raraunga Ara Rau session for 2023. You can read about the event here.
The Land Cover Database (LCDB), available to users of the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) portal offers environment data held by Landcare Research for re-use in GIS and mapping applications.
Data driven technology seems to unlock opportunities. Yet it poses new types of risks, from bias and transparency challenges to issues of consent and data sovereignty.
In April 2024, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) published a guide to help national statistical offices understand the importance of data stewardship and their changing roles as data stewards.