[ddj] New Zealand List Followers

[Tim McNamara]

Innes -

Most Kiwis in this space are part of the Open Government ninjas list:
http://groups.open.org.nz/groups/ninja-talk. There are many of the NZ
DDJ leaders there: Juha Saarinen, Keith Ng, etc.

I'm based in Auckland (Symonds St) and am always up for a coffee.

On 9 May 2012 20:51, Innes Fisher <innes at quantumdata.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Nate,
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> Well if I can help and do something in my spare time, let me know. Sometimes
> having someone on the ground makes things a bit easier. I won’t have a lot
> of time immediately but could possibly squeeze some time out of my busy
> schedule.
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> Personal banking records in NZ will be covered by the Privacy Act 1993 so it
> would be difficult to acquire anything without breaking the law unless they
> were released either officially or by the individual(s) concerned.
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> I believe The NZ Companies Office has an API to allow you to search the
> company registrations and associated information (like Directors and
> Shareholders). You probably already know that. It might be possible to do an
> extract to create a more useful dataset though.
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> Cheers,
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> Innes
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> From: data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of nate
> thayer
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012 11:41 a.m.
> To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
> Subject: Re: [ddj] New Zealand List Followers
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> Hi Innes:
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> I am from the US (although lived in Asia for 25 years) but I am working on a
> story that involves New Zealand. It is exactly what good data journalism
> works for: The use of NZ based paper front companies to hide real ownership
> for the international transport of corrupt money arms drugs etc. Their are
> hundreds of fake companies registered to a single Aukland address to ship
> products rent airplanes, set up fake companies registered in other countries
> for bank transfers etc. SP Trading is its name and it briefly hit the news
> in December 2010 when an arms shipment was intercepted from North Korea to
> Iran in Bangkok. I am trying to track real ownership. If you or anyone else
> knows how to best mine company and bank records to trace the very
> complicated web I would love to know.
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> Best
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> Nate Thayer
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> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Innes Fisher <innes at quantumdata.co.nz>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Anyone from New Zealand following this list?
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> Would be interested in finding out what is going on in NZ in Data Journalism
> at present.
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> Cheers, Innes
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