{"id":348,"date":"2013-06-21T02:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=348"},"modified":"2013-06-21T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:32:05","slug":"2013-nz-report-into-the-declaration-on-open-and-transparent-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/2013-nz-report-into-the-declaration-on-open-and-transparent-government\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 NZ Report into the Declaration on Open and Transparent Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From \u201cAn Opal Dream Cave\u201d by Jem Yoshioka CC-BY-SA (reusing Katherine Mansfield\u2019s poem)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the Press Release says, \u201cOpen data benefits public and economy<\/a>“. The \u201c2013 report on adoption of the Declaration on Open and Transparent Government<\/a>\u201d was released by the Honourable Chris Tremain on June 17. It documents how well government agencies in New Zealand are adapting the declaration, which encourages the release of high value public data for reuse. Twenty six (84%) of government departments now include the Declaration in their core business plan or intend to do so next year (up from 72% in 2012). The Cabinet approved the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL<\/a>) framework on 5 July 2010 to provide\u00a0guidelines\u00a0for agencies to follow when releasing material under a licence that enables it to be reused by others. Since that time, progress has been very good. A\u00a0directory of publicly-available, non-personal New Zealand government held datasets can be found at\u00a0data.govt.nz<\/a>. A list of\u00a0open data case studies<\/a>\u00a0shows the wide variety of ways in which others have made good use of data that the government has made available. These include the\u00a0Wellington Interactive Map Viewer<\/a>, the\u00a0Tongariro Pocket Ranger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CamperMate<\/a>\u00a0smart phone applications, and many other innovative products and services that effectively and productively reuse data that has been collected by the New Zealand government and released under an open licence. The\u00a0New Zealand Creative Commons Website<\/a>\u00a0also has an excellent set of\u00a0case studies<\/a>\u00a0that describe how Creative Commons licences have been applied to a wide range of government material. One good role model is the\u00a0The\u00a0Ministry\u00a0for Culture and Heritage<\/a>, which has published a wealth of public resources online using a\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence<\/a>. As Matthew Oliver, the manager of the Ministry\u2019s Web team says:<\/p>\n

The more we could get our content used, the more we justify our work. By making our content available for reuse, we show that our content is important, that there is a need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is worth keeping this quote in mind as we engage in the important work that we do in higher education.<\/p>\n

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