The presentation discusses New Zealand's Open Government Data Programme. It defines open data and explains that open government data should be licensed for reuse, machine-readable, and published on Data.govt.nz. Examples are given of innovative apps and tools that have been created by third parties using open government data on topics like property information, fishing rules, and weather maps. The goals of the programme are to encourage government agencies to proactively release non-personal data and to support and assess reuse of open data. Questions from the audience are invited.

1. Environment Southland Data Management Conference
19 October 2015
- Paul Stone
- New Zealand Open Government Data Programme

2.  What is open data and information?
◦ Brief description of open government data policies
and the programme
 Why: some innovative re-use of open
government data – to get you thinking…
 Your questions

3. “Open data is data that anyone can access, use
and share.”
(Open Data Institute https://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data)
For NZ Government…
 licensed for legal re-use (NZGOAL)
 Non-proprietary and machine-readable
format

4. TheDeclaration
Data.govt.nz
Open Government

5. 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)
Training videos at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-
resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-
licensing-nzgoal-framework/nzgoal-online-training-videos/

6. • Open
• Protected
• Readily available
• Trusted and authoritative
• Well managed
• Reasonably priced (“…expected to be free”)
• Reusable

7. • Reusable
o at source, with the highest possible level of
granularity
o in re-usable, machine-readable format
o with appropriate metadata; and
o in aggregate or modified forms if they cannot
be released in their original state.

9. 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

10. Our job to encourage all that to happen!
 To encourage and support the release of data
and information
 To understand the user communities (and
raise awareness)
 To assess the impact of re-use

11. Video – Open/Shared/Closed Data

12. Examples of re-use – Tides data…

13. Property…

14. Property…

16. NZ Schools App

17. ATM Finder

18. Mogeo - Campermate

19. Mogeo – NZ Fishing Rules

20. Mogeo – MarineMate

21. Mogeo – Product Recalls

22. Mogeo – Agricultural Chemical & Vet Medicine

23. Mogeo – Pest Identification

24. Pocket Ranger

25. ThunderMaps

26. ANZ – Truckometer

27. The Forward Works Viewer

28. Advocacy

29. NZ Herald
Maori.geek.nz
@polemic
@fogonwater

30. • Data shows:
• low income earners are more likely to be obese
• High concentration of low income earners in central
Washington DC
• Retail licence data - low quality food outlets in low
income neighbourhoods
• High prevalence of smartphones amongst low
income earners

33. Significantly higher
admissions to hospital
as a result of self harm

34. TutuManuka
Photo: Nic
Maps and story: Melissa Clark-Reynolds

35. Contact
Email:
pstone@linz.govt.nz
opendata@linz.govt.nz
Twitter: #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
Questions?