- ANGOA Roundtable, 12 June Keitha Booth, - New Zealand Open Government Information and Data Programme
Economic growth New business & employment New tools, products Taxation revenue Better social outcomes Data to improve daily decisions Insights from analysis Efficiencies Greater use of a single authoritative source Evidence-based policy Transparency and democracy Public participation in policy development Reporting on performance
NZ Government Open Access & Licensing Framework (NZGOAL) NZ Data & Information Management Principles Declaration on Open and Transparent Government Data.govt.nz Clear Cabinet decisions and intent Foundations built
Government departments directed State services agencies encouraged includes CRIs, Crown agents, e.g. NZTAincludes CRIs, Crown agents, e.g. NZTA State sector agencies encouraged includes universities and SOEsincludes universities and SOEs Local government invited by Local Government Minister in August 2011by Local Government Minister in August 2011
Publicly-funded data that is not personal or restrictedPrioritised based on user demandReleased in open machine-readable formatsLicensed for legal re-use, using Creative Commons licencesNo charge where possible, otherwise, reasonably priced
Prioritise what public data users want to useMake this work business as usualWithin baseline budgets Review existing contracts or systems which may constrain release under CC-BY or in open formats
Data supporting consultation documents and policy development process? Government performance data? Tools to support analysis? Parliamentary and legislative data?
International assessments, eg Open Data Barometer 2013, NZ ranked 4th overall, but 7 th in implementation based on these datasets
UK PM’s commitmentsUK National Audit Office Required to release, eg: New items of spending over UK25,000, published monthly New contracts & tender docs for over UK10,000 Employment details for roles with salaries over UK58,200 Organograms including all staff positions in common format … 2012 review found: Public input not sought to establish demand for data standard releases Standard data releases not in high demand, while higher demand for service-specific releases Spending category variability hindered comparability …
Preparing a data platform to support publishing of electorate profile informationPlan to combine their data with demographic data from Stats NZ.Plan to publish to their websiteSee an opportunity to build in an open data output as wellNeed specifics now of what electorate profile data is wanted and what format(s) would be most helpful.Keen to know what else is needed, such as Hansard, OIAs etc. Please share what you intend to do with the data, so the benefits of releasing the data are that much more tangible.
Charities Register
Benefits data – national level monthly Work and Income regional data Regional council data Auckland Boards data Territorial Authority data Service centre data resources/statistics/benefit/index.html#Datatables6
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