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  • From: Brian Opie <Brian.Opie AT vuw.ac.nz>
  • To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Declaration on Open and Transparent Government
  • Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:43:59 +0000

Hi Jane

Congratulations on your role in this magnificent accomplishment.
Best wishes

Brian
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From: cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] on
behalf of Jane Hornibrook [janehornibrook AT gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:23 PM
To: cc-nz
Subject: [Cc-nz] Declaration on Open and Transparent Government

Hi everyone

I've pasted a press release from the New Zealand Ministers of Finance and
Internal Affairs below which introduces NZ's newly approved 'Declaration on
Open and Transparent Government'. This is very exciting news for Creative
Commons in NZ, since it's a strong top-down mandate for the uptake of the
licences by government (with CC BY as the recommended default position when
releasing content and data for re-use).

A enormous thanks and congratulations from CC New Zealand goes out to those
within government and our open data communities who worked on the declaration
and the principals (particularly Keitha Booth and Julian Carver), and to
those who developed the NZGOAL framework which provides guidance for agencies
in this area (particularly Richard Best).

Direct link to this work is at
http://www.e.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/open-and-transparent-government

Best
- Jane


BEGINS

15 August 2011, by Hon Bill
English<http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=22>, Hon Nathan
Guy<http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=60>, Finance, Internal Affairs

The Government is encouraging state sector agencies to release more of their
data online that has a high potential value to the public and the economy.

"Today the Government is releasing a declaration that clearly sets out our
expectation that agencies should release all non-personal and unclassified
data with high potential value for re-use," Finance Minister Bill English
says.

"Improving online access to government data has many potential benefits.
These include creating business opportunities and new services, increasing
government accountability and improving policy development by encouraging
greater external analysis and community engagement.

"Allowing research communities to reuse existing data for new purposes will
also increase the value gained from state-funded research," Mr English says.

Examples of data being re-used include New Zealand Transport Agency data in
third party websites and iPhone applications, and the use of land and
geospatial information for a variety of third-party commercial applications.

"Over the past decade new technology has meant government data has gradually
become more open," Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says.

"However the release of data has been ad hoc and there has been no clear set
of expectations. These steps build on New Zealand's long history of openness
and recognise that this data effectively belongs to the public."

The Government has also updated principles for managing government-held data
and information to include:

• Government data should be released proactively in accessible formats and
licensed for re-use unless there are good reasons not to.
• Information should be well managed, trusted and authoritative.
• Data should be free, or where fees are necessary, reasonably priced.
• Personal and classified data or information will remain protected.

People can submit a request for currently unavailable high-value data they
want to use at www.data.govt.nz<http://www.data.govt.nz/>. The site already
holds about 1400 publicly available government data sets.

The declaration, principles and Cabinet paper are available at
www.ict.govt.nz<http://www.ict.govt.nz/>.

ENDS




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