We want to hear from you! This brief survey will help us build an ongoing picture of who is (or isn’t) using our open data, for what and how we can improve it. You can also contact us directly at opendata@nzta.govt.nz. Take the Waka Kotahi open data survey

As part of improving how we engage with our open data users, we'll be releasing monthly / bimonthly updates highlighting some of the previous month’s work, as well as what we’re up to next.

You can download the update as a .pptx by clicking on the ‘download button’ on this page. You can also read the update as text, below.

We’d love to hear your feedback, thoughts and comments – you can contact us at opendata@data.govt.nz. If you’d like to be added to our updates email list, and / or our user group, please also email us.

Open data at Waka Kotahi – update, Mar-Apr '22

INCREASE transparency, REDUCE OIA / data requests, and improve ENGAGEMENT, PROBLEM-SOLVING and INNOVATION.

Strategic direction

LIFT open data performance and relevance

FOSTER strong relationships

IMPROVE decision-making

REDUCE harm

ENABLE and EMPOWER communities and sectors / industries, allowing FIT-FOR-PURPOSE solutions to challenges at local, regional, national and supranational scales

NZ Government is a signatory to the International Open Data Charter and New Zealand Data and Information Management principles, which follow from the (NZ) Declaration on Open and Transparent Government. Additionally, the Transport Evidence Base Strategy highlights improved access to data – and open data – as a key priority.

What we did (high-level) Published transport sector open data framework.

Published New Zealand’s first all-of-transport-sector open data framework. Its purpose is to help enable the entire sector to align efforts, prevent wheel reinvention, improve maturity etc.

https://opendata-nzta.opendata.arcgis.com/documents/a-transport-open-data-framework-for-aotearoa-new-zealand-march-2022/about

Published first open data user survey.

To better understand our users and continue to improve on our open data, we published our first open data survey across a range of channels, both internal and external.

Take the open data user survey.

Published improved CAS documentation.

Following user feedback, we published detailed user documentation for our CAS (crash analysis system) open data. The documentation accompanies the CAS listings.

https://opendata-nzta.opendata.arcgis.com/search?tags=crashes

DataHack v3+.

Planning has begun for upcoming ‘DataHack’ events, where we bring people together from across Waka Kotahi, and more widely, to work on various challenges using data. The aim is to generate novel insights, build capability and capacity, and give people space to innovate and enjoy themselves.

Foundational work.

We have been doing considerable work in the background on a range of matters, including backend systems and processes, as well as research into open data value and impact, and how to measure / demonstrate these for Waka Kotahi open data. We will publish them when they’re ready.

This month’s fun fact: 80% of survey respondents agree that open data is valuable to them.

What’s up next (high-level)

Weight right (open data).

National Speed Limit Register (open data).

Open data value and impact study, incl user survey and associated work (maturity uplift).

Complete analysis and ‘next steps’ from updated open data maturity assessment (maturity uplift).

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