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Hawkes bay local governent workshop 9 december 2015
1. Open Government Data and Information
Hawke’s Bay Regional and Territorial Authorities (9/12/2015)
Open Government Information and Data
Programme
2. AGENDA:
Hawke’s Bay Regional and Territorial
Authorities and Open Data
(9 December 2015, 10am to 1:30pm)
1000 - Cuppa, meet and greet
1020 – Open Data Spring Series (video)
1030 - Intro to the Programme and open government policies
1050 – Open/Shared/Closed Data (video)
1055 - Discussion - what does it mean to be a Data Champion?
1125 - Resources available/wanted (30 mins)
1200 - Lunch
1230 - What do we mean by “open by design”?
1250 – ODI – What Open Data can do for you (video)
1255 - What have people done with open data
1315 - What data do users want?
1320 - Questions and wrap-up (10 mins)
5. What is “open data”?
“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
7. NZ Government Open Access and
Licensing (NZGOAL) Framework
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)
8. NZ Data and Information
Management Principles, 2011
10. NZ Declaration on Open and
Transparent Government, 2011
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
13. Why did we ask for a Data
Champion?
A point of contact
Someone for the Programme to build a
relationship with
Someone to support and work with to
address challenges
Someone to make connections to other
organisations through
14. Attributes sought in a Data
Champion
Executive manager
Persuasive with peers
Involved in the organisation’s strategic
planning
Understands their customers
15. Expectations of a Data Champion
Champion the culture change within their
agency
Embed Open data and information into the
corporate strategy and vision
Influence the development of policies,
procedures and processes that will lead to
open data released as part of business as
usual
17. Resources
Toolkit for Local Government
https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-
government/toolkit-for-local-government/
Open Data NZ Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS9RfGWGxb-
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What else???
19. Open by Design
Embed open data output as a requirement
of all new systems
Incorporate open data output into
processes/publishing
Require quality data as part of any new
contracts for services – that can be released
as open data
20. Open by Design
Open by design = closed by design
(Different mind sets,
but really just 2 sides
of the same coin)
43. What data do customers want
from local government?...
44. Data wanted
• Consent applications
• property valuations
• River flows (stage height and cumecs), at
granular intervals (e.g. 15 mins, not 12
hrs)
• Water quality of rivers, estuaries, beaches
(esp. during summer time)
• Rubbish collection schedules etc.
45. Data wanted
• Civic facilities & opening times
– e.g. toilets, libraries, service centres, swimming pools,
dog parks, etc.
• What's on, esp. in iCal or schema.org
formats
• transport timetables, infrastructure
location, real-time status, occupancy for
bus, train and ferries;
46. Data wanted
• Council contracting data such as roadwork
locations, refuse collection schedules,
traffic light status;
• road marking and signage locations;
• Council car parking sign and sensor data;
• status and location of mobile libraries
• Earthquake prone buildings
47. Complementary data from the
private sector
• utility company infrastructure (location of
lines, pipes, meters etc.)
• status and location of mobile resources
such as couriers, taxis, Mr Whippy vans
etc.
• airline flight times and status
• movie theatre occupancy