Kia ora koutou,
People on the list might be interested in the submission the NZ Council for
Civil Liberties sent in to the Public Service Commission about what the
country’s next Open Government Action Plan should commit to achieving.
A summary, with a link to the complete submission, is here:
https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-open-government-action-plan/
As well as calling for the OIA to be strengthened, these recommendations are
ones the members of the list will be interested in:
• Adopting the Open Contracting Partnership principles and open data standard.
Huge amounts of public money is spent on buying goods and services – everything
from refurbishing schools to creating a new system for managing digital
identity for our interactions with government agencies. Much of this spending
is not transparent, and this increases the risk of corruption and wasted
spending. The Open Contracting Partnership has developed Principles and a Data
Standard that we think the government should adopt, so as to improve access to
information and accountability. We think this will lead to better value for
money and better services.
• Strengthening the government’s open data work. While some progress has been
made with publishing data sets on data.govt.nz, and the adoption of the
Algorithm Charter, there’s still a long way to go, for achieving the
accountability, participation and innovation objectives in this area.
Cheers,
Andrew
People on the list might be interested in the submission the NZ Council for
Civil Liberties sent in to the Public Service Commission about what the
country’s next Open Government Action Plan should commit to achieving.
A summary, with a link to the complete submission, is here:
https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-open-government-action-plan/
As well as calling for the OIA to be strengthened, these recommendations are
ones the members of the list will be interested in:
• Adopting the Open Contracting Partnership principles and open data standard.
Huge amounts of public money is spent on buying goods and services – everything
from refurbishing schools to creating a new system for managing digital
identity for our interactions with government agencies. Much of this spending
is not transparent, and this increases the risk of corruption and wasted
spending. The Open Contracting Partnership has developed Principles and a Data
Standard that we think the government should adopt, so as to improve access to
information and accountability. We think this will lead to better value for
money and better services.
• Strengthening the government’s open data work. While some progress has been
made with publishing data sets on data.govt.nz, and the adoption of the
Algorithm Charter, there’s still a long way to go, for achieving the
accountability, participation and innovation objectives in this area.
Cheers,
Andrew
