NZ Open Data Policy, what data you can find and stories of Innovative data reuse

1. Open
Data
Paul Stone, NZ Open Government Data Programme, Stats NZ
31 July 2019

2. 2008 – New Zealand Government Open
Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL).
2009 – Data.govt.nz
2011 – NZ Data and Information
Management Principles.
2011 – Declaration on Open and
Transparent Government
History

3. Guidance on applying Creative Commons licences to public
data, information and content.
Licences given by the copyright owner (government/Crown)
give people the legal right to reuse the data.
NZGOAL

4. Data.govt.nz

5. NZ Data and Information Management
Principles, 2011
Licensed for reuse
Non-proprietary
Machine-readable
Low authentication
barrier
By default
(unless there is a
good reason not to)

6. NZ Declaration on Open and Transparent
Government, 2011
Government agencies to proactively release all publicly funded data
that is:
• 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

7. ``
March 2018 New Zealand signed up to the
International Open Data Charter
The Charter Principles:
1.Open by Default
2.Timely and Comprehensive
3.Accessible and Usable
4.Comparable and interoperable
5.For Improved Governance and Citizen Engagement
6.For Inclusive Development and Innovation

8. Value
Value can be realised in different forms:
• Economic value
• new products and services
• better business decisions
• new jobs
• Social value
• better social services
• evidence to support advocacy
• Democratic value
• trust through transparency and accountability
• more informed participation in debate and policy development

9. Every time data is reused, more
value is realised
Shared Data
(limited potential reuse
between limited parties)
Closed Data
(limited potential
reuse within
organisation)
Open Data
(unlimited potential reuse)
Government agencies are custodians of a
public data asset, and therefore have a
responsibility to maximise the value
generated from it.

10. Government Chief Data Steward
The GCDS is:
• Setting the strategic direction for government's data management
• Leading New Zealand's state sector's response to new and
emerging data issues
• Co-developing a Data Stewardship Framework to enable
agencies to manage data as a strategic asset and benchmark
their data maturity
• Leading the government's commitment to accelerating the release
of open data.

11. GCDS: What’s happening to improve open
data quality?...
• accelerating Data Inventories across government
• publishing guidance on data.govt.nz
• setting Data Content Standards
• Piloting Data Confidentiality as a Service (DCaaS)

12. GCDS: What’s happening regarding data in
general?...
• Established the NZ Data Strategy and Roadmap
• developing a Data Stewardship Framework
• developing an Operational Data Governance
Framework
• developing a Data Capability Framework
• setting up a cost recovery Data & Analytics
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jaksmata. Reused under CC BY-SA 3.0

13. So what open data has been
released?…

14. The Census
Statistics on business; economic indicators; education &
education & training; environment; government finance;
health; income & work; People & communities
Land – titles; parcels; roads; elevation & other topographic
layers
Vegetation cover
Soil types
On Data.govt.nz you find…

15. Traffic counts
Pedestrian counts
River flow
Water quality, air quality
Capture of seabird, marine mammal & turtle bycatch in trawl
fisheries
Family services directory
On Data.govt.nz you find…

16. Location of facilities and infrastructure – like sewer
pipes; water pipes; storm water; broadband; wi-fi;
public toilets; bus stops; train stations; bus routes
schedules; parks and reserves; campsites;
community halls
Resource consents
district plan zones
locations of hazardous substances
On Data.govt.nz you find…

17. Discharge to land & air
Human effluent discharge
Mudfish habitat
Water use
Legislation
walking tracks
Cycle tracks
On Data.govt.nz you find…

18. Tsunami zones
Fault lines
Earthquake occurrences
Floodways
Water catchments
Road assets such as bridges, signage, carparks, speed zones
zones
Historic places
On Data.govt.nz you find…

19. Digital archive and museum collections
Location of schools & school zones
Location of animal species
Aerial imagery
Sunshine hours, rainfall & wind statistics
UV index
Melanoma rates
Ocean acidification
On Data.govt.nz you find…

20. Lightning strikes
Ozone concentrations
Sea surface temperatures
Greenhouse gas emissions
Glacier ice volumes
Fishery observations
Predicted capture of fish species
On Data.govt.nz you find…

21. Company details
Register of Charities and their financial returns
Government policy consultations
Mineral and coal permits
Government grants to social services, arts and cultural
organisations
Lotteries revenue and allocation
On Data.govt.nz you find…

22. Marine mammal sanctuaries
Seafood export values
Tourist volumes and spend
Soil moisture
Dog registrations
Liquor ban areas
Property Sales data
On Data.govt.nz you find…

23. Cemetery plots
Defence Force service and medals
Building outlines
Alcohol licences
Building consents
Property revaluations
Plant pest surveillance
On Data.govt.nz you find…

24. Crime statistics
Tax statistics
State sector remuneration
Public service capability
Gender stocktake of sector boards and committees
Electricity market information
prison statistics
On Data.govt.nz you find…

25. Public perceptions towards cyber crime
Electoral enrolment and voting statistics
Budget and fiscal updates fromTreasury
Social housing register
Vehicles registration
Women’s suffrage petition
Most popular male and female names
Market rents…
On Data.govt.nz you find…

26. So how is open data being
used?…

27. New products and
services

28. Visualisation and public debate in the media on education
policy
NZ Herald
Maori.geek.nz
@polemic
@fogonwater

29. Data Journalism

30. Health & Safety (SaferMe)

31. Supporting communities (CCS Disability)

32. Pixar: The Good Dinosaur
Open data from the US
Geological Survey
(topographical and
landcover data) used to
more efficiently render
large landscapes
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-pixar-changed-all-the-rules-to-make-the-good-dinosa-1735364564?IR=T

33. Using AI on open data to generate more
data
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-pixar-changed-all-the-rules-to-make-the-good-dinosa-1735364564?IR=T
From aerial photography
data to lean building and
road outline data

34. 3D Virtual reality data (Wellington City
Council)
Wellington's District Plan controls for the central area seen
from the top of the Kelburn Cable Car

35. 3D Virtual reality data (Wellington City
Council)
Visualise the impact of sea level rise (using the land elevation)

36. Tsunami simulator – Te Papa
Data from GNS and WCC

37. Navigate Your Way – reuse of Family Services
Directory

38. Efficient reuse of data across government
Rental prices are measured directly from
administration data instead of surveys.
Open tenancy bond data from the Ministry Business,
Innovation and Employment used to generate
property rental price index by Stats NZ.

39. Twitter: @opendatanz
opendata@stats.govt.nz
Paul.stone@stats.govt.nz
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