Open Government Information and Data Work Programme

The work programme aims to:

• make non-personal government-held data and information more widely available and discoverable, easily usable and compliant with open government data principles within the NZ legal context; and 
• facilitate agencies’ release of the non-personal government-held data and information that people, communities, and businesses want to use and re-use.

The programme was initiated in 2008 and is led by the Data and Information Re-use CEs Steering Group. An officials Working Group advises the Steering Group.

Current projects include:

• Development of policy and guidance to bring into effect Supporting Open and Transparent Government Direction Two of Directions and Priorities for Government ICT
• Document Metadata Standards used across Government

Completed projects include:

• Combined Programme Secretariat and DIA response to Independent Review of data.govt.nz
• Independent Review of data.govt.nz (by Andrew Stott), November 2011
• Data Re-use Strategy for Tertiary (non-personal)
• Barriers to the Re-use of Structured Data
• Barriers to the Re-use of Unstructured Data
• Declaration on Open and Transparent Goverment, August 2011
• Mandates for Releasing Information and Agency Capability
• New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL)
• nzdata Workshops: Solving Real World Problems Using NZ Government Data
• Open Data Engagement Pilot
• Replacement of the Policy Framework for Government Held Infomation with the NZ Data and Information Management Principles, August 2011
• Federation of the Environmental and Geospatial Catalogue with http://data.govt.nz