- ANGOA Roundtable, 12 June 2014 - Keitha Booth, - New Zealand Open Government Information and Data Programme.

Role of open data & information in supporting open government

- ANGOA Roundtable, 12 June 2014

- Keitha Booth,- New Zealand Open Government Information and Data Programme

Economic growth

•New business & employment

•New tools, products•Taxation revenue

Better social

outcomes

•Data to improve daily decisions

• Insights from analysis

Efficiencies

•Greater use of a single authoritative source

•Evidence-based policy

Transparency and

democracy

•Public participation in policy development

•Reporting on performance

New Zealand’s open government outcomes

NZ Open Government in 2014

NZ Government Open Access & Licensing Framework (NZGOAL)

NZ Data & Information Management Principles

Declaration on Open and Transparent Government

Data.govt.nz

Clear Cabinet decisions and intent Foundations built

Covers all government agencies

Government departments directed

State services agencies encouraged • includes CRIs, Crown agents, e.g. NZTA

State sector agencies encouraged• includes universities and SOEs

Local government invited •by Local Government Minister in August 2011

Publicly-funded data that is not personal or restricted

Prioritised based on user demand

Released in open machine-readable formats

Licensed for legal re-use, using Creative Commons licences

No charge where possible, otherwise, reasonably priced

What data is covered?

Prioritise what public data users want to use

Make this work business as usual

Within baseline budgets

Review existing contracts or systems which may constrain release under CC-BY or in open formats

What agencies must do

What open data and information is top priority for you?

Data supporting consultation

documents and policy

development process?

Government performance

data?

Tools to support analysis?

Parliamentary and legislative

data?

International assessments, eg Open Data Barometer 2013,

NZ ranked 4th overall, but 7th in implementation based on these datasets

Categories used internationally

G8 Open Data Charter - datasets

UK Transparency Agenda (2010):

UK PM’s commitments UK National Audit Office

Required to release, eg: New items of spending

over UK25,000, published monthly

New contracts & tender docs for over UK10,000

Employment details for roles with salaries over UK58,200

Organograms including all staff positions in common format …

2012 review found: Public input not sought

to establish demand for data standard releases

Standard data releases not in high demand, while higher demand for service-specific releases

Spending category variability hindered comparability …

Preparing a data platform to support publishing of electorate profile information

Plan to combine their data with demographic data from Stats NZ.

Plan to publish to their website

See an opportunity to build in an open data output as well

Need specifics now of what electorate profile data is wanted and what format(s) would be most helpful.

Keen to know what else is needed, such as Hansard, OIAs etc.

Please share what you intend to do with the data, so the benefits of releasing the data are that much more tangible.

Parliamentary Services’ plans

Charities Register

MSD data

Benefits data – national level monthly

Work and Income regional data

Regional council data Auckland Boards data Territorial Authority data

Service centre data

http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/index.html#Datatables6

Public debate and new insightshttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/secondary-education/news/article.cfm?c_id=315&objectid=11207352

http://maori.geek.nz/post/the_difference_between_rich_and_poor_schools_in_new_zealand

http://ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government

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