The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's March 2026 newsletter.
The Wellington open data meetup organisers been thinking and hearing lots about what the meetup series could look like / aim to achieve this year.
Here are our thoughts.
Principle 2: Maintain public confidence and trust to use data. This principle includes ngā tikanga Pono (true to the principles of culture) and Tika (value for all).
Last week, GCDS Mark Sowden spoke to members of the government data system on the progress we’ve made under Government Data Strategy and Roadmap, and what’s next on our journey. Check out his reflections here.
This web tool and app helps hunters and adventurers in New Zealand plan their trips and increases safety.
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.
A data dictionary describes your data. It describes the choices made about column names, codes, methods, or sampling. It enables anyone to better find, understand, reuse,…
The data.govt.nz, Open Data Programme and Stats NZ teams got together at the Service Innovation Lab last week to share experiences, compare notes and ideate around models that could serve users better in data discovery and use.
An event held on 6 March 2020.
At this gathering to celebrate Open Data Day we were informed, challenged, and inspired by speakers offering different perspectives.
Tackling corruption…
Ellen Broad believes that the benefits from open data are potentially organisation changing, because of the culture that open data encourages. Open data will drive government to being more efficient and working collaboratively to solve common problems.