I’m part of a team at the State Services Commission (SSC) who monitor and report on trends in the Public Service workforce. Earlier this month we entered the open data world when we added a dataset from the Human Resource Capability (HRC) survey to the SSC website and data.govt.nz.
The trends contained in this dataset have [...]
This is a guest post by Hadyn Green. Hadyn Green is a Senior Analyst in the Ministry of Education’s Research Division. His main area of work is student assessment and he works with data on a daily basis.
At the Open Govt BarCamp held recently, one group was asked to raise their hands if they believed [...]
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 the State Services Commission hosted a discussion on aspects of data re-use. Sponsored by GOVIS, with five expert panellists (Nat Torkington, Fiona Romeo, Toby Segaran, Adrian Holovaty and David Recordon) supplied by Webstock, this was a wide-ranging discussion covering policy questions and technical issues. Staff of the Strategy and Innovation [...]
Here in the GCIO we’re considering the question of government information and data re-use. We want to work together with suppliers of non-personal government information, opening the vaults, releasing the butterfly from its chrysalis. To keep ourselves firmly rooted in reality we’re looking at the problem through the lens of a real-world test case: job [...]
Further to Vikram Kumar’s excellent Showing us a better way post, here is some information about the Open Government Information and Data Re-use project, led by the State Services Commission.
Here also is our just released Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use Background Paper. We have summarised the New Zealand government information environment, described key international government information policies and initiatives, and are proposing a [...]
On Wednesday night last week as part of a gala celebration in Wellington, the State Services Commission picked up an award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards.
While we were finalists in two categories, we ended up watching two other fine projects take to the podium for the laurels in those fields. Congratulations to Radio [...]
