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 [...]
Late last week Gallup launched their Worldwide Corruption Index, a poll ranking 101 countries according to perceptions of corruption in business and government. New Zealand ranks equal second with Denmark, behind the squeaky-clean Finns.
This comes on the heels of Transparency International’s assessment of NZ as equal first in their annual Corruption Perceptions Index, this time [...]
The font of all knowledge, well maybe not knowledge but certainly a wellspring of information, Wikipedia, has a page on Astroturfing that, given recent developments in the public affairs/communications space, is a must read.
Wikipedia defines astroturfing as:
formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the [...]
