Tag Archives: open

data.govt.nz

November 4, 2009 – 2:15 pm

Today, the Department of Internal Afairs launched data.govt.nz, a beta site where government agencies can register their non-personal data sets for use by members of the public and organizations. The department has also created a Twitter account @data_govt_nz to support engagement with communities of interest around the data sets.

As I said when I posted [...]

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On openness…

July 10, 2009 – 4:40 pm

There has been quite a lot of discussion about opening up government data over the last couple of months, both here and in other jurisdictions. In 2007, I posted on the UK government’s Power of Information report, and the potential social and economic value that could be unlocked. At that time Statistics New Zealand were [...]

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