PSI re-use in New Zealand

Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use

Wellington: 16 December 2008

The New Zealand State Services Commission has published a report titled: Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use - Background Paper. In announcing the publication the Commission states:

“This Background Paper is the first stage of the Open Government Information and Data Re-use Project of the State Services Commission.

We want to work together with suppliers and users of non-personal government information and with people who use it now or wish to re-use it to create new information or products. We want to understand any issues you are facing.

Opening up access to this non-personal government information and data is expected to create value for the New Zealand economy and increase our social and cultural well being.”

An announcement has also been published on the In Development blog, which contains materials written by employees of the State Services Commission, New Zealand. The posting titled: Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use written by Keitha Booth, Keitha in response to questions and comments submitted in response to the article outlines the New Zealand Government planned actions for the first half of 2009 as:

“April and June 2009 are our key dates at this stage. In April we are expecting to start bringing together the data re-use issues identified by suppliers and users. We anticipate that these will include copyright and licensing, pricing and funding and data standards and formats. In June we expect to have moved to drafting material covering some of those issues.”

The Australian State Government of Victoria has also reported on the New Zealand moves.

References

Title: Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use - Background Paper
Publisher: State Services Commission
Date: December 2008
Version: Version 1.0
ISBN 978-0-478-30357-5(PDF)
ISBN 978-0-478-30358-2(HTML)
Pages: 10

Contents

Executive Summary
Background
New Zealand Government Information Environment
International Public Information Environment

• Information Management
• Coverage
• Access and Re-use
• Open access
• Copyright and Licensing
• Pricing and Funding
• Adoption of EU Directive

Promoting Government Data and Information Re-use
Next Steps

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