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About Us
Welcome to open.org.nz. We develop and host projects around transparency, participatory democracy, and generally making central and local government useful to citizens and businesses.
You can keep track of our projects below. If you’d like to get involved with any of the projects, maybe as a developer or an organiser or a writer of documentation, or even just to participate in discussions about Open Data in NZ, you can join the Ninjas mailing list.
For more about us, see the following:
Our Apps
 Track and discuss council policies and consultation documents About · Twitter |  Notify councils of local problems About · Twitter |
 Directory of government and council data sources About |  Track legislation developed by Parliament About · Twitter · Blog |
 For Your InformationLodge & browse official requests for government information About · Twitter · Group | Scavenger (under development) Scrape content from government websites and serve via API About |
| Christchurch Recovery Map Keeping the city up-to-date with what is where in Christchurch after the earthquake. About |  A repository of open data success stories, built in NZ, but with an international scope. |
Related Apps
 Free access to legal information in New Zealand About | Zenbu Free points of interest directory, CC-licensed About - Blog |
Projects
- Consultation on a definition of High Value Public Data
- The NZ Declaration on Open and Transparent Government, and the New Zealand Data and Information Management Principles.
- Our description of Open Data
- Design the requirements for data.govt.nz (Closed on Nov 4, 2009 when data.govt.nz was released.)
- Draft requirements for a dataset opening suggestions system (Closed in March 2011 when the dataset requests system on data.govt.nz was launched)
- Data Release Case Studies - published stories of successful releases of data
- Keeping costs low
- OIA Consultation - analysing the Law Commission's review of Official Information Act (and local govt equivalent) for a submission
- API Documentation Project - Properly documenting government API's
Upcoming Meetups
Past Meetups
- Open Government Data Day - Wellington, 22 June 2011
- The Open Data Workshop, 2-5pm Wednesday, May 18th, LINZ Boardroom, 160 Lambton Quay, Wellington
- Mix and Mash kickoff - held in Wellington on 3 November 2010
- AGM2010 - held in Wellington on 8 September 2010
- Hackfest - held in Wellington on Sun 30th August 2009
- Barcamp and Hackfest - held in Wellington on Sat 29th August 2009
Related
- Official Info Blog - Using OIA/LGOIMA to acquire government and council geodata
- Geo_Parse_Digital_NZ_API_Records_by_Placename_Extraction
