[open-government] New Zealand Government releases Declaration on Open and Transparent Government, and new Data and Information Management Principles

[Javier Ruiz]

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> Geodata will be first. The officials who drafted this policy
> physically sit within Land Information New Zealand
> (http://linz.govt.nz) and LINZ has been very actively supporting open
> access to its materials. So has the Ministry for the Environment for
> that matter. However, the open data discussion is fairly mature and
> several other areas of government are moving in this direction.
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> We convinced our politicians. Our Finance Minister is probably the
> strongest advocate of open data.
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Thanks for the insight.

We are going to need a strong response to the current UK consultation to
convince the Treasury that it is necessary to open up the core reference
public data (geo, meteo, legal, registries, socio-economic stats) if you
want to develop any meaningful analysis of public services.

The current dichotomy of high value core reference in the PDC and free
performance will mean that only businesses will be able to provide the
interpretation and analysis.

This goes right to your point about inclusiveness, which in our case is
becoming more serious, as the idea seems to be that citizens will get
differential public services based on choices which in turn will depend on
the information available.

I think Open Data has had a honeymoon period when it could be seen as an end
in itself detached from the wider political context, but this may be coming
to an end.

Javier
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