Introduce yourself

Welcome @sophielafayette @juliancarver @kayscarlet @aaronmcglinchy :smiley:

Kia Ora! I'm Wei Ji Leong, GIS Analyst at e-Spatial and heavy user of LINZ's geospatial datasets. Great to see lots of good discussions going on. I've recently attended the Open Source/Open Society 2016 conference last month and am keen on getting more involved in the Open Data community space.

Kia ora, tatou,

I am working with @rstewartallen @camfindlay1 and @amelialoye to hear people's views about the ODC. I'll be facilitating three face to face workshops, and co-facilitating the teleconference but will pop in here from time to time as well.

I have been around open data since the ninjas first formed to lead this. I have been involved with biodiversity data wrangling community and good data management practices.

My role will not be to express a view but to help make sense of the implications of adopting the Charter.

Tēnā koutou katoa,
I'm Mike McMurtry, Senior Environmental Specialist with the RIMU (Resarch and Evaluation Unit) of Auckland Council. I'm fizzing about open data, and data federation on a national and international scale... especially biodata. We're doing some, but we can do so much more!

Kia ora @mikemcmurtry welcome!

Good to have some more Local Government representation in the discussions here. If you have any thing you are interested in raising from a LG perspective feel free to start a new thread. :thumbsup:

Kia ora koutou,

I'm CEO of Figure.NZ, a social enterprise working to create a data democracy in NZ - we care heaps about making data something that everyone can use. I'll familiarise myself with what's already been written before sharing my thoughts.

Cheers,
Lillian

Note: Figure.NZ is my main focus, but disclosure of other things I'm involved in... Data Futures Partnership Working Group, Open Government Partnership Expert Advisory Panel, and boards of Te Pūnaha Matatini and NZ Innovation Partnership.

Welcome @lilliangrace1

Hi, all. I am Keitha Booth, Interim Public Lead for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand. We have an interest in the discussion about the Open Data Charter and the 2011 NZ Data and Information Management Principles (NZDIMP).

In particular we support New Zealand all of government information and data policy continuing to explictly endorse open licensing. This is in line with the Open Data Charter and picks up on the NZDIMP Reusable Principle stating that "copyright works are licensed for re-use, and open access to and re-use of non-copyright materials is enabled, in accordance with the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework." This is also in line with the detailed Policy Principles in the New Zealand Government Open Acess and Licensing framework and government's adoption of Creative Commons licences when agencies release contents for re-use.

We also support retention of the concepts of ownership, stewardship and custodianship of all government-held information. Examples would be unpublished manuscripts, documents, records, images, collections, personal and restricted information and data as well as open data. As these concepts and the details set out in the Reusable NZDIMP principle have been incorporated in many agencies' information strategies, we submit that an updated policy must continue to embrace all government held information and data.

We also support retention of language in the New Zealand policy that retains a direct link to the Privacy and Official Information Acts. The 'readily available' NZDIMP Principle uses the words in the purpose statement of the Official Information Act and the 'closed' NZDIMP principle uses the words from the purpose statement of the Privacy Act. We would like these high level statements to continue and we support them being supplemented by practical guidance but not being replaced. It is an opportunity to be more explicit about their source to avoid future questions about their language.

We also support a new principle stating that government-held information and data are free of charge.

Your current work and engagement with civil society and bodies like Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ is applauded. It is a great opportunity to build on, not diminish, what was achieved by the three policies in 2010 and 2011. It can also leverage all subsequent open policy, eg the Open Data Charter, and the Open Governent Partnership.

Thanks for the opportunity to offer our support.

Best wishes

Keitha

Hi, I'm Kerry Tankard.

I've an interest in open gov as an activist who has done a lot of work around peace & demilitarisation. I have some understandings of the ways that military & intelligence departments of gov use 'big data' to control citizenry, not always within the legal boundaries set by various legislative frameworks.

I've also recently retrained in policy analysis, and have used those skills in writing and submitting to Parliamentary Select Committees on Bills currently before the House, which attempt to broaden information sharing & profiling of citizens, not always in their best interests.

I have family members who write code, commercially & within secure gov contracts. I am basically a bureaucrat who can 'speak geek', and translate 'what needs to be done' in policy terms, via the mechanisms we have at our disposal.

I have participated in many NGO and activist collectives that have campaigned on many issues, over the past seventeen years, and I politically align with GPANZ. I am firmly in favour of transparency and accountability in government, and systems that enable and empower citizens. I do not see these features present in our current government.

Hi all! I'm aimee whitcroft. I'm a keen open data/open gov/civic tech advocate, based in Wellington (NZ).

I'm also a freelancer - day job involves working with central government on large web projects (generally) as a plain language and informational structure expert, and working with local governments around NZ on service design.

My free time's spent doing things like running GovHack NZ (national open data/open gov hackathon), helping out (mentoring & comms) at various Startup Weekends, and working to build a civic tech community here in NZ.