Has opening up data promoted open

government in New Zealand?

Victoria University of Wellington Chair in Digital Government 2016 Seminar Series

21 April 2016 and 9 May 2016

Presenter: Keitha Booth, Independent Commentator; Associate, Open Data Institute

keithabooth@gmail.com

Content• My hypothesis• Exclusions• Definitions• Has open data promoted open government in New Zealand• How does New Zealand rate?• My crystal ball-gazing

Restricted coverage today of the Official Information Act

Not covering OIA requestsRecent statement by Chief Ombudsman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dzhSeUgcYk

1980

NZ Open Governme

nt Information & Data Programme, 2008

Data.govt.nz

Directory 2009

NZ Government Open Access

and Licensing framewor

k 2010

Declaration on Open

and Transpare

nt Governme

nt 2011

NZ Data &

Information

Management

Principles 2011

Better Public

Services Programme 2012

Open Governme

nt Partnership Action

Plan 2014-2016

ICT Strategy

and Action Plan to 2017

(updated 2015)

NZ open government milestones in the 21st century

Wider context for NZ Open Government Information & Data programme

www.ict.govt.nz

http://ssc.govt.nz/

Open government scope (OGP view)

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/

Economic, cultural &

environmental growth

Better social outcomes

Better public services

A more transparent and

democratic government

NZ government’s expectations from open data:

CAB Min (10) 24/5A

www.ict.govt.nz

www.ict.govt.nz

www.ict.govt.nz

Available online to accommodate the widest practical range of users and usesOpen-licensed so anyone has permission to use and reuse the dataMachine-readable so that large datasets can be analysed efficientlyAvailable in bulk so it can be downloaded as one dataset and easily analysed by a machineFree of charge so anyone can access it no matter their budget

Source: Open Data Barometer 3rd edition - Global Report, 21 April 2016

To be truly open, data should be:

Is NZ open data promoting our economic growth?

http://statistics.govt.nz/

http://www.linz.govt.nz/data/linz-data-service

http://www.geonet.org.nz/

http://www.mpi.govt.nz/news-and-resources/open-data-and-forecasting/

mbie.govt.nz

https://figure.nz/

MBIE tourism forecasts (interactive)mbie.govt.nz

http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/business/business-growth-agenda/regions

https://www.ea.govt.nz/

www.linz.govt.nz/cera

https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/

https://koordinates.com/

https://learn.thundermaps.com/

http://www.anz.co.nz/about-us/economic-markets-research/truckometer/

http://www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/what-were-doing/success-stories

https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/case-studies/open-data/

https://www.data.govt.nz/

https://data.linz.govt.nz/

Is NZ open data promoting our cultural growth?

http://digitalnz.org/

http://digitalnz.org/

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en

http://archives.govt.nz/

https://www.mytoursapp.com

Is NZ open data promoting our environmental growth?

https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/

NIWA

https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/daily-climate-maps

https://data.mfe.govt.nz/

http://www.lawa.org.nz/

http://www.lawa.org.nz/

http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2016/04/noaa-hosting-more-weather-data-cloud/127241/

Is NZ open data promoting social growth?

Real time alerts

https://koordinates.com/

Campermate

https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/home

http://www.police.govt.nz/

http://www.cyf.govt.nz/about-us/key-statistics

http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/index.html

http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/national-patient-flow-prioritisation-outcome-referrals-first-specialist-assessment-tables

Social Investment Insights tool

https://shinyapps.stats.govt.nz/sii/

https://shinyapps.stats.govt.nz/sii/

Is NZ open data promoting better public services?

.govt.nz/organisations

http://ssc.govt.nz/

MarineMate

http://www.stuff.co.nz/ 7 April 2016

Is NZ open data promoting more transparent & democratic

government?

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/

http://www.elections.org.nz/

http://www.treasury.govt.nz/

http://www.mbie.govt.nz/

https://data.mfe.govt.nz/

http://map.contractmapping.govt.nz/

How does NZ rate?

Open Data Barometer 3rd ed, 21 April 2016: key findings

• Open data is a young field and every government has room to improve.• Governments at the top of the Barometer are being challenged by a

new generation of open data adopters rising through the ranks• Scores for open data’s impact on accountability have fallen 22%• Open data should not be a luxury for developed countries• Governments must embrace a culture of open by default for the long-

term• Governments must make open data a part of their anti-corruption

strategies

Open Data Barometer 3rd edition, 21 April 2016

www.parliament.govt.nz

Govt.nz

http://tracking-equality.hrc.co.nz/#/

http://insights.nzherald.co.nz/article/nz-multinational-tax-gap

http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/nzs-most-violent-city-spots-revealed-2016050216#axzz47f4ugD14

“We believe the way to sustain the release of open government data is to ensure it is embedded into what we call the ‘new business as usual’.  This ensures open data is woven into the everyday planning, delivery and processes of government agencies”.

Hon Louise UpstonMinister for Land Information30 October 2015

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/open-data-and-leadership-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-approach

My crystal ball-gazing

Link to international policy:

UN Sustainable Development Goal 16

International Open Data Charter

Open Contracting Data Standard

Create new policy and machinery of government

Make open licensing and open formats mandatory for all publicly funded information and data

Bring together the LINZ, SSC, and DIA open government and open government data teams & the Data Futures PartnershipMove programme’s monitoring and impact assessment role to the Office of the Auditor General

To achieve business-as-usual open data release:

Continue regular advocacy with senior officials to expand and deepen agencies’ open data practice

Train staff regularly in open licensing, formats and technical skills

Update information systems to become open by design and default

Increase data analytics capability, including for policy development

Accelerate work with users and agencies:

Roundtables of suppliers and users set data supply prioritiesCode of Australia teams of technologists, designers and community organisations work in government agenciesAll rethink how users can find government’s open datasets more easilyConsider how to assist Pacific countries to use open dataPrioritise transparency work using the US Govlab’s model

http://www.thegovlab.org/

http://www.thegovlab.org/projects.html

Radionz.co.nz/news/political

The Nation, TV3, 24 March 2016

Any questions????

Contact details

keithabooth@gmail.com@keithabooth#opendatanz