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.
Learn what data is and why it is important, and learn about some of the related terms, principles, and frameworks.
To make sure data and information is maintained, there will often be a data custodian responsible for updating and preserving the data. Under the New Zealand Data and Information Management Principles, agency data custodians should implement recommended practices to support well managed 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).
Pia gave presentations outlining her thoughts on the broad data agenda across New Zealand, with some recommendations, suggestions drawing on successes from government open data release across the Tasman.
The metadata and many datasets on data.govt.nz are available for use via an Application Programming Interface (API). When using our API you need to know what you can and cannot do with the data and where to find technical documentation.
Getting started
Don’t repeat yourself
Where and how to publicly release your code?
What to include in your first code release
Working in the open
Safe configuration practices
Release early and often
Version…
Localcouncils.govt.nz presents data from New Zealand’s 78 local authorities, in a consistent format that enables it to be compared and analysed.
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I’ve been working with the Department of Internal Affairs, and the Privacy Commissioner, on how the government uses data, and analytical tools like algorithms.
Algorithms are…
On Thursday 18th November at 8pm we'll be releasing an updated version of data.govt.nz. This will result in a very brief outage to the website and…