Government policy and intent – open data and information

Open Government Information and Data Programme

Government policy and intentions…

What is “open data”?

“Open data is data that anyone can access, use and share.”

(Open Data Institute https://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data)

Foundations for Open Government Data and Information

Data.govt.nz

NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) Framework

Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply Creative Commons licences to information data and content, published digitally or in hardcopy.

Copyright = ownership

Licence = permissions to re-use (assigned by the copyright owner)

NZ Data and Information Management Principles, 2011 (NZDIMP)

LicensedNon-proprietary

Machine-readable

By default

(unless there is a good

reason not to)

Summing up NZDIMP & NZGOAL

Open & Reusable Data

=

Non-proprietary

+ Machine-readable

+ Licensed for reuse

Data.govt.nz

NZ Declaration on Open and Transparent Government, 2011

Government direction to government agencies to proactively release all:

• publicly funded data• non-personal and unclassified• high potential value for re-use• managed according to the Principles• licensed for re-use (NZGOAL)• published on Data.govt.nz

The Programme

• Works across both central and local government to encourage and support release of data

• Engages with data users to understand demand and advocate for data release

• Engage with potential data users to raise awareness of the growing public asset they could be making use of

Open Data for Business

• New products and services

• Smarter business decisions

• Evidence to advocate for change

Examples of re-use – Tides data…

Property…

Quickmap

20,000+licences sold

NZ Schools App

Mogeo - Campermate

Mogeo – NZ Fishing Rules

Mogeo – MarineMate

ThunderMaps

HERE Maps

- CC v4.0

- MPI - Food Safety Inspection data

- RAMM Data

ANZ – Truckometer(Don’t second-guess what the data can be used for…)

The Forward Works Viewer

Advocacy

Visualisation and public debate in the media on education policy

NZ Herald

Maori.geek.nz

@polemic

@fogonwater

Using open data to inform

Manuka Tutu

Contact

Email:opendata@linz.govt.nz

Twitter: @opendatanz #opendatanz

Open Government Data Programme:http://www.ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government

Case Studies:http://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/case-studies/open-data