Agencies told to open up databases Last updated 05:00 15/08/2011
The Cabinet will today issue an instruction to government departments that they should make all data they hold available for free or at a reasonable-price in accessible file formats for reuse by businesses, unless there are good reasons not to.
The Government will recommend they do so under a
"Creative Commons" licence that means they could not usually be held liable for any errors or omissions. Read the rest
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Open data will benefit public, economy Bill English, Nathan Guy
15 August, 2011
Open data will benefit public, economy
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....
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/open-data-will-benefit-public-economyBrowse all data requests All published data requests are listed below. The list can be sorted by clicking on the column titles.
You can request data by filling out the online Request data form.
http://www.data.govt.nz/requests/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
under a
"Creative Commons" licence that means they could not usually be held liable for any errors or omissions. yeah, right