Open Data NZ now at Stats NZ

"There is a bright future as a result of collaboration between
National Statistical Offices and open data community experts."

Haishan Fu, World Bank

We bring open data greetings to you from our new desks at Stats NZ! Stats NZ has expertise in maximising the value New Zealanders gets from data, and we'll continue working with agencies to raise awareness and increase transparency around their data use from our new location. You can read more about our shift here.

Other highlights from our past couple of months include:

An update on adoption of the Open Data Charter: There's been a lot of changes going on but we'll have the next update on the adoption of the Open Data Charter in May. You can check out our engagement summary report here.
An open data board game evening with PwC: Many thanks to PwC Wellington who hosted another fun evening of open data board excitement!
Celebrating Open Data Day 2017: We partnered up with our buddies at GovHack, data.govt.nz, National Library & Statistics NZ to run a mini-hackathon on International Open Data Day in Wellington. You can read more below.

The Open Data NZ Team!

Paul Stone Rochelle Stewart-Allen

The Open Data Handbook

The Open Data Handbook can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.

Learn more

Open Data Barriers

The European Data Portal recently released their report on the barriers in working with open data - political, organisational, legal, financial & awareness. The report provides best practice solutions to tackle the barriers when implementing an open data programme.

Learn more

Celebrating Open Data Day

Six great projects were created at our mini-hack with an environmental focus on International Data Day. We joined in with the 300 events around the world to celebrate open data. We'll soon be releasing our video from the day.

Learn more

Open Data
Policy Wizard

The Sunlight Foundation's Open Data Policy Wizard is a great starting point to begin drafting up your policy. The wizard starts with a few simple questions to personalize the format & then emails you the completed policy template. A simple & easy-to-use tool!

Try the policy

Open Data Privacy Report

Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive information about residents. As cities embrace open data initiatives, more of this information is released to the public. Harvard University's new report tackles the balancing act between benefits & risks.

Read the report

The new data.govt.nz is site nearly here!

The new data.govt.nz CKAN site will soon be live, with a lot more features making it easier to find data, including preview functions.

One of the new features will be automatic harvesting of data published on other portals. There'll be easy-to-use guides published to help you prepare your data releases to be harvested by data.govt.nz.

This harvesting action will mean data users can discover all local government data in the one spot. This will be especially helpful for users looking for data to help them create a New Zealand-wide story.

Forward

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Open Government Information & Data Programme (Stats NZ)
PO Box 2922
Wellington, 6140
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