Presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen on Research Bazaar, Palmerston North, New Zealand on 8 February 2017.
Speakers notes available on download.
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Opening up data in a data-driven world (Women in Spatial Breakfast)Open Data NZ
Opening up data in a data-driven world provides examples of how open data is used in practice by various organizations around the world to improve emergency responsiveness and civic participation. Some examples mentioned include mapping applications like HERE Maps and Thundermaps, a crowdsourced accessibility map called BlindSquare, a data visualization tool called Lifestreams, and Figure NZ's work using open data. People are also encouraged to participate in GovHack and contact the Open Data team with any other questions.
Open Data - the new oil of the digital economyOpen Data NZ
Open Data is about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new & innovative ways, to bring about both social & economic benefits.
This is the presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen delivered to the Results 9 teams at Creative HQ, Wellington, New Zealand on 27 April 2016.
Open data - the new oil of the digital economy (School of Government presenta...Open Data NZ
Open data is freely available data that anyone can use and share under an open license. The presentation provides examples of open data projects including mapping applications, data visualizations, and tools that use open government data to provide insights. Attendees are encouraged to participate in open data training programs and hackathons to become involved in using and developing applications with open data.
This document introduces Joost Plattel as a data strategist and co-founder of QS Europe and QS Amsterdam who is interested in discussing data and big data. It provides his contact information and encourages asking him questions.
Data Science Popup Austin: Meet the PyData CommunityDomino Data Lab
Andy Terrel, President of Numfocus and CTO of Fashion Metric, gave a presentation on the PyData community at the Data Science Pop Up in Austin. He discussed who a PyData scientist is, focusing on their skills in data, math/statistics, and understanding of domain-specific problems. Terrel also talked about the importance of open source code and maintenance through organizations like Numfocus that support collaborative data science projects. He provided an example of how IPython was used in a Nature journal article.
Media4Math+ is a digital library containing videos, interactives, presentations, flipcharts, math solvers, worksheets, quizzes and tutorials for algebra and geometry. It provides resources that supplement lesson plans, including current math applications in news topics and real-world applications videos. Teachers have access to thousands of worked examples and interactive flipcharts. A free 30-day preview is available.
Predictive Analytics in the Cloud - The Art of the PossibleAnthony Quartararo
This is the presentation I did last week at the USGIF Technology Day event. The presentation was in the Ignite format and talked about how to model human behavior like hurricanes and weather patterns to help build and calibrate a predictive model of where events will happen and what other impacts they will have on neighboring geographies.
Opening up data in a data-driven world (Women in Spatial Breakfast)Open Data NZ
Opening up data in a data-driven world provides examples of how open data is used in practice by various organizations around the world to improve emergency responsiveness and civic participation. Some examples mentioned include mapping applications like HERE Maps and Thundermaps, a crowdsourced accessibility map called BlindSquare, a data visualization tool called Lifestreams, and Figure NZ's work using open data. People are also encouraged to participate in GovHack and contact the Open Data team with any other questions.
Open Data - the new oil of the digital economyOpen Data NZ
Open Data is about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new & innovative ways, to bring about both social & economic benefits.
This is the presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen delivered to the Results 9 teams at Creative HQ, Wellington, New Zealand on 27 April 2016.
Open data - the new oil of the digital economy (School of Government presenta...Open Data NZ
Open data is freely available data that anyone can use and share under an open license. The presentation provides examples of open data projects including mapping applications, data visualizations, and tools that use open government data to provide insights. Attendees are encouraged to participate in open data training programs and hackathons to become involved in using and developing applications with open data.
This document introduces Joost Plattel as a data strategist and co-founder of QS Europe and QS Amsterdam who is interested in discussing data and big data. It provides his contact information and encourages asking him questions.
Data Science Popup Austin: Meet the PyData CommunityDomino Data Lab
Andy Terrel, President of Numfocus and CTO of Fashion Metric, gave a presentation on the PyData community at the Data Science Pop Up in Austin. He discussed who a PyData scientist is, focusing on their skills in data, math/statistics, and understanding of domain-specific problems. Terrel also talked about the importance of open source code and maintenance through organizations like Numfocus that support collaborative data science projects. He provided an example of how IPython was used in a Nature journal article.
Media4Math+ is a digital library containing videos, interactives, presentations, flipcharts, math solvers, worksheets, quizzes and tutorials for algebra and geometry. It provides resources that supplement lesson plans, including current math applications in news topics and real-world applications videos. Teachers have access to thousands of worked examples and interactive flipcharts. A free 30-day preview is available.
Predictive Analytics in the Cloud - The Art of the PossibleAnthony Quartararo
This is the presentation I did last week at the USGIF Technology Day event. The presentation was in the Ignite format and talked about how to model human behavior like hurricanes and weather patterns to help build and calibrate a predictive model of where events will happen and what other impacts they will have on neighboring geographies.
Presentation to the New Zealand Transport Agency Open Data Day. Covering Government policy and intentions, "open by design" and examples of open data reuse
Open Data Board Game (Datopolis) - getting startedOpen Data NZ
Datopolis is an open data board game where players take on roles and work to build tools by releasing and reusing different data types (represented by colored tiles) to increase their score on a dashboard. Players start by selecting role cards and data tiles to play as open, closed, or private. On each turn, players can build tools, draw event cards that impact the dashboard, and trade to release more data. The game ends when a player reaches 10 points or the dashboard hits a crisis 3 times, with the goal of collaboratively increasing dashboard scores through open data sharing and tool building.
Open Data NZ - International Open Data Conference Madrid presentation Open Data NZ
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Open Data NZ is the New Zealand government's open data programme driving the supply and demand of open government data.
Open data has the potential to change the way we see our ourselves, our world and our future.
Open data, open potential - @opendatanz #opendatanz | opendata@linz.govt.nz
The document discusses New Zealand's open government data and information programme. It defines open data and outlines the country's open access and licensing framework (NZGOAL) as well as data management principles (NZDIMP) that require data be non-proprietary, machine-readable, and licensed for reuse by default. The programme works to encourage government agencies to proactively release publicly funded, non-personal data on Data.govt.nz according to these standards to promote reuse. Examples show how open data has been used commercially and for advocacy and community benefit.
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management SymposiumOpen Data NZ
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management Symposium. Covering government policy and intent, open by design and examples of open data reuse
ITx 2016 - Open sourcing the open source policyOpen Data NZ
Telling the story of using open source tools and methods for an open government policy consultation process while developing an open source licensing guide for government agencies
Local Government Data Champion WorkshopsOpen Data NZ
The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on open government data and information. It includes presentations on open data policies, what constitutes open data, and resources available. It discusses the role of data champions and being "open by design". Examples are given of how open data has been used including apps created for property data, schools, public transport timetables. Participants discuss what additional open data local users want from councils such as consent applications, utility infrastructure and mobile resource locations.
Presentatoin at ALGIM GIS Symposium April 2016, talking about the New Zealand policy setting for open data and the intent. Including some stories and about data being put to use and where the policy has had a specific impact.
Open Data at Locate15 Conference 11 march 2015Open Data NZ
This document discusses New Zealand's open government data initiative and what it means for data suppliers, users, and society. It defines open data as being accessible, machine-readable, and re-usable. Open data can enable economic growth through new businesses and tools, better social outcomes from improved daily decisions and analysis, and government efficiencies from single authoritative sources and evidence-based policy. Realizing these impacts will take bold changes and many years of engaged government agencies regularly supplying high-value data and engaged users developing applications, while addressing challenges around funding, capabilities, and assessing long-term impact.
Asian public governance forum on public innovation 9-10 September 2015Open Data NZ
Keitha Booth is the Director of New Zealand's Open Government Information and Data Programme. The programme aims to share data across the New Zealand government to provide better public services, unlock the value of public information, and create a more efficient and innovative government. Some key achievements of the programme include establishing the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework, launching the data.govt.nz website, and enabling greater transparency, economic growth, social outcomes, and government efficiencies through open data.
Open Data presentation to Christchurch Employers' Chamber of CommerceOpen Data NZ
Open data refers to data that is publicly available for anyone to access, use and share. The New Zealand government has an open data policy to release non-proprietary government data in open formats with permissions for legal reuse. Examples were given of innovative apps and tools that have been developed by reusing open government data on topics like tides, property information, schools, and more. Further potential uses of open data were discussed to help decision making, understand trends, and power consumer and business tools. Questions about New Zealand's open data program were welcomed.
Talking about Open Data at Otago UniversityOpen Data NZ
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.
What is open government data? - an overview of New Zealand's Open Government Data and Information Programme. For more detail go to: https://www.ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government/open-government-information-and-data-work-programm/
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
Presentation to the New Zealand Transport Agency Open Data Day. Covering Government policy and intentions, "open by design" and examples of open data reuse
Open Data Board Game (Datopolis) - getting startedOpen Data NZ
Datopolis is an open data board game where players take on roles and work to build tools by releasing and reusing different data types (represented by colored tiles) to increase their score on a dashboard. Players start by selecting role cards and data tiles to play as open, closed, or private. On each turn, players can build tools, draw event cards that impact the dashboard, and trade to release more data. The game ends when a player reaches 10 points or the dashboard hits a crisis 3 times, with the goal of collaboratively increasing dashboard scores through open data sharing and tool building.
Open Data NZ - International Open Data Conference Madrid presentation Open Data NZ
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Open Data NZ is the New Zealand government's open data programme driving the supply and demand of open government data.
Open data has the potential to change the way we see our ourselves, our world and our future.
Open data, open potential - @opendatanz #opendatanz | opendata@linz.govt.nz
The document discusses New Zealand's open government data and information programme. It defines open data and outlines the country's open access and licensing framework (NZGOAL) as well as data management principles (NZDIMP) that require data be non-proprietary, machine-readable, and licensed for reuse by default. The programme works to encourage government agencies to proactively release publicly funded, non-personal data on Data.govt.nz according to these standards to promote reuse. Examples show how open data has been used commercially and for advocacy and community benefit.
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management SymposiumOpen Data NZ
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management Symposium. Covering government policy and intent, open by design and examples of open data reuse
ITx 2016 - Open sourcing the open source policyOpen Data NZ
Telling the story of using open source tools and methods for an open government policy consultation process while developing an open source licensing guide for government agencies
Local Government Data Champion WorkshopsOpen Data NZ
The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on open government data and information. It includes presentations on open data policies, what constitutes open data, and resources available. It discusses the role of data champions and being "open by design". Examples are given of how open data has been used including apps created for property data, schools, public transport timetables. Participants discuss what additional open data local users want from councils such as consent applications, utility infrastructure and mobile resource locations.
Presentatoin at ALGIM GIS Symposium April 2016, talking about the New Zealand policy setting for open data and the intent. Including some stories and about data being put to use and where the policy has had a specific impact.
Open Data at Locate15 Conference 11 march 2015Open Data NZ
This document discusses New Zealand's open government data initiative and what it means for data suppliers, users, and society. It defines open data as being accessible, machine-readable, and re-usable. Open data can enable economic growth through new businesses and tools, better social outcomes from improved daily decisions and analysis, and government efficiencies from single authoritative sources and evidence-based policy. Realizing these impacts will take bold changes and many years of engaged government agencies regularly supplying high-value data and engaged users developing applications, while addressing challenges around funding, capabilities, and assessing long-term impact.
Asian public governance forum on public innovation 9-10 September 2015Open Data NZ
Keitha Booth is the Director of New Zealand's Open Government Information and Data Programme. The programme aims to share data across the New Zealand government to provide better public services, unlock the value of public information, and create a more efficient and innovative government. Some key achievements of the programme include establishing the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework, launching the data.govt.nz website, and enabling greater transparency, economic growth, social outcomes, and government efficiencies through open data.
Open Data presentation to Christchurch Employers' Chamber of CommerceOpen Data NZ
Open data refers to data that is publicly available for anyone to access, use and share. The New Zealand government has an open data policy to release non-proprietary government data in open formats with permissions for legal reuse. Examples were given of innovative apps and tools that have been developed by reusing open government data on topics like tides, property information, schools, and more. Further potential uses of open data were discussed to help decision making, understand trends, and power consumer and business tools. Questions about New Zealand's open data program were welcomed.
Talking about Open Data at Otago UniversityOpen Data NZ
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.
What is open government data? - an overview of New Zealand's Open Government Data and Information Programme. For more detail go to: https://www.ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government/open-government-information-and-data-work-programm/
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Contributi dei parlamentari del PD - Contributi L. 3/2019Partito democratico
DI SEGUITO SONO PUBBLICATI, AI SENSI DELL'ART. 11 DELLA LEGGE N. 3/2019, GLI IMPORTI RICEVUTI DALL'ENTRATA IN VIGORE DELLA SUDDETTA NORMA (31/01/2019) E FINO AL MESE SOLARE ANTECEDENTE QUELLO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE SUL PRESENTE SITO
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
Donate Us
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The industrial revolution changed our world through the economies of scale that it bought about
In this new digital world, it is the economies of speed that are changing the landscape
Data-driven technology drives our every day lives – whether it’s using Google Maps to find where you’re going, online shopping recommendations, streaming your music, searching on Wikipedia or wearing your Fitbit to track your fitness
What is open data?
Governments collect a great deal of information - about the companies it regulates, the built and natural environment, and about individuals - whether it about the delivery of healthcare or criminal justice or other services it provides to us.
When you make all of a dataset available, it allows other people to analyse that data, visualise that data, run comparisons, see trends, develop new apps, and solutions.
It is really, in short, about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new ways.
What makes all of this significant is not simply that the data is available. It is that the data becomes the raw material to engage other people. It is a tool for participation. The data by itself is really quite meaningless.
We live in a complex data-driven world
Our world generates & accumulates more data than at any other point in history
The Internet of Things and Big Data are collecting millions of lines of data every hour from sensors, mobile phones, cameras & software logs
Governments, business and community organisations are actively opening up data & using data that others have released
How we live and how we work is being fundamentally transformed by this new digital world
How is data being used differently? Tim Baker from Thomson Reuters talks about transforming raw data into intelligence in the following ways:
Get the data free, sell the insight back
Find the insight and find the opportunity
Give away for free, and build trust
Harness the crowd, and improve quality of data
Re-sell a high-quality, integrated data source
Here’s what open data can do:
SOCIAL OUTCOMES ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
Fostering economic growth and creating jobs: helping launch new businesses or make businesses more efficient; improve the job market; creating jobs (data science is considered one of the best jobs to have in the future)
Improving efficiency and effectiveness : open data can help strengthen healthcare systems by connecting patients to providers; promotes education and ongoing learning; and improves food security on both a large and small scale
ncreasing transparency & accountability, & citizen participation in government decision-making: the more open & transparent governments are, the less corruption can exist; providing environmental sustainability through reducing pollution, protecting & conserving natural resources; building resilience to climate change
Facilitating better information-sharing : open data helps improve cities and urban infrastructure; improves disaster resilience; allows essential resources to be distributed effectively in emergencies.
In NZ the new Social Investment Unit is using cross-government data to better identify at-risk children & design appropriate support & services to improve their lives
HERE Maps is one of the 3 largest digital map providers in the world (the others are Google Maps & Tom-Tom)
They are building a world roading map in preparation for driverless cars
Images, GPS coordinates & LiDAR scans are mapping our roads, including in NZ
So where does open data come in? Open data enrichens the map data with relevant information about traffic, parking, shops, hotels and so on – all things that are needed when using a digital map or riding around in a driverless car
BlindSquare is a smartphone app that allows blind & visibly impaired people to navigate a city
Originating in Helsinki, the app originally took open data on public transport & services, & combined it with social networking app Foursquare, & Open Street Map
It describes the environment, and announces points of interest & intersections as a person travels around the city
The product now works in dozens of countries and languages, including NZ where the Blind Foundation uses it
Thundermaps
ThunderMaps is a mobile hazard and incident reporting app, with the goal of making workplaces safer
Users automatically receive alerts for hazards and incidents for areas of their choice eg. their home, their workplace, school areas
They can receive information about police call-out locations, fire alerts, earthquakes, rainfall or traffic accident
‘Real-time’ reporting of hazards reduces the occurrence of related incidents, immediately improves safety, & provide quick analysis and elimination of hazards
It also means time & cost savings are made as mobile hazard reporting can easily be integrated into business processes
RentSquare
A UK start-up which connects landlords and tenants online, without the need for letting agencies
Using open data, RentSquare uses a calculator that works out the sweet spot for rents for every address in the UK
It combines open data from the Land Registry, with local authority data on housing benefit and rent levels in London, as well as Bank of England economic data
The High 5s application is a landmark initiative from the African Development Bank
The goal is to accelerate Africa’s development over the next 10 years
High 5 uses open data to track 5 priority areas for development – light up & power Africa; feed Africa; integrate Africa; industrialise Africa; and improve quality of life
The application tracks each countries progress again the priority areas & provides visibility across the relevant areas
This demonstrates transparency & accountability
Open data is having a huge impact on emergency responsiveness in natural disasters
Both after the Nepal earthquake last year & the Ecuador earthquake this year, organisations around the world started immediately releasing imagery & crowd-sourced data to help the disaster response
Several international organisations & crowd-sourced efforts began producing & sharing data about the earthquake’s impacts
Open data provides useful information to understand the context of the affected cities and towns before the earthquakes
This data is used during the response & recovery phases to understand the affected population & infrastructure eg. demographic information provides insight into the affected population, identifying needs around age & gender distribution.
Benefits: facilitates interdisciplinary research, pushes the boundaries of discovery, using data already collected elsewhere
We are now talking about ‘when’ not ‘if’ the majority of academic outputs lives somewhere on the web
Academics, tertiary institutions, libraries & publishing platforms all need to fundamentally change how they work:
Academics – need to think about collection of data for multiple purposes & eventual opening & sharing of their data
Tertiary institutions – funders are starting to ask to see the outputs of what they’ve funded
Libraries – digital content is now core business for them
Publishing platforms – rather than sitting behind subscriptions, users are going to expect open digital content
Data.govt.nz is New Zealand’s open data discovery portal which has over 4,300 datasets
It brings together openly available, openly licensed datasets opened up by organisations across government with entrepreneurs, citizens and government itself using & building value on top of the raw data
Lots of organisations can list on data.govt.nz including universities (it’s not only for central government)
Data.govt.nz also provides guidance, case studies and e-learning to show the impact open data is making
Within the next few months, data.govt.nz will be launching it’s new data catalogue (currently in beta) and continuous improvement programme
They would love to hear your feedback on what features you’d like to see on data.govt.nz (contact them at [email_address] ).
Data.govt.nz is New Zealand’s open data discovery portal which has over 4,300 datasets
It brings together openly available, openly licensed datasets opened up by organisations across government with entrepreneurs, citizens and government itself using & building value on top of the raw data
Lots of organisations can list on data.govt.nz including universities (it’s not only for central government)
Data.govt.nz also provides guidance, case studies and e-learning to show the impact open data is making
Within the next few months, data.govt.nz will be launching it’s new data catalogue (currently in beta) and continuous improvement programme
They would love to hear your feedback on what features you’d like to see on data.govt.nz (contact them at [email_address] ).
Figure.nz pulls together data from the NZ public & private sectors & academic data in one place, & makes it easy for people to see in a visualised form
Explore the population by age group, mobile connections, exports to China or the types of devices used to access the internet
Click on the relevant link to download the dataset itself and do your own analysis
GovHack is an Australian hackathon run over the weekend of 28-20 July (Friday evening – Sunday evening)
What is a hackathon? – it’s a combination of ‘hack’ & ‘marathon’
GovHack is essentially a weekend of teams coming together to use data to tell a story
It is run in 9 locations around NZ plus more in Australia
The multi-skilled teams mean you don’t need to be data savvy
Instead bring your creative, strategic, planning, visualising, leadership skills
It’s totally free & everything is provided – just bring your device