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.
This year, groups from around the country took part in International Open Data Day, working on everything from writing tutorials and feedback, to building front ends, to sharing knowledge and discussing books.
Data.govt.nz's datasets, organisations and groups can be accessed and queried as JSON date through the metadata API; this page describes how.
Agendas of meetings of the Data Ethics Advisory Group.
ContentsIntroduction and context
Copyright, databases and datasets
The law as stated in NZGOAL
Developments since NZGOAL was approved in 2010
Suitability of Creative Commons licences for copyright databases and datasets
Consideration…
This report seeks to strengthen the Māori-Crown relationship by building understanding of Māori perspectives on data storage. It also aims to inform discussions and guide government agencies in their decision-making about storing data.
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…
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.
Stats NZ's dashboard for March 2019 quarter which highlights key deliverables for its data leadership role under the Government Chief Data Steward function.
Stats NZ's quarterly data dashboard profiles key deliverables and how they contribute to the relevant visions of success:
innovation
data-driven decisions
valuable data.
The dashboard also documents the number of…