http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/data-guidelines-will-expose-info-refusalsNew Zealand: Data guidelines will expose info refusals
Official information requests that are refused by government agencies
under new open data guidelines, will be detailed on a Department of
Internal Affairs website.
Phil Rennie, a Spokesman for Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says
all requests for data will be published on the website,
www.data.govt.nz?, so the request and any refusal will be publicly
available.
In addition, any request for release of government datasets under the
open-data policy formalised this month, will be treated as a request
under the Official Information Act (OIA). If the department declines
to release data, the person requesting it will have the same avenue of
appeal to the Ombudsman as any other regular OIA request.
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http://www.ict.govt.nz/library/Public-version-of-Open-Government%20-Cabinet-paper.pdfThe Minister of Finance and Minister of Internal Affairs jointly
released a Declaration on Open and Transparent Government, a set of
Data and Information Management Principles, and a Cabinet paper
outlining the government's overall strategy in this area.
The new declaration does allow for public agencies to charge for data
where the costs of gathering it are unmanageable or unreasonable, and
Booth says it will be up to individual bodies to make the judgement as
to when to apply this freedom. "We have acknowledged that there will
be costs for some agencies, particularly non-information-intensive",
she said. "They have autonomy to fit this data release into their
business plans, and they may choose to submit a business case for more
money."
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