Commitment 9 progress report: June 2018 to January 2019

Open Government Partnership New Zealand National Action Plan 2018-2020

Progress report for: June 2018 – January 2019

Lead agency: Stats NZ

Objective: To increase the visibility of data practices for government-held data.

Ambition: New Zealanders will:

understand how government is managing, using, and protecting their data and be able to hold government to account.
have confidence and trust in the management and use of data that government holds on their behalf.

OGP values: Transparency, Accountability

Develop and publish an overview of government’s data stewardship practices

Start/End dates: August 2018 to 30 November 2018

Progress: Some delays

Engage with citizens and government on the data stewardship overview to ensure it provides visibility of the right things and is addressing key needs

Start/End dates: 1 December 2018 to 31 April 2019

Progress: Some delays

Promote the data stewardship practices to government agencies and support them to implement good practice

Start date: 1 May 2019 (ongoing)

Engage with citizens and government to identify where effort should be focused to address gaps in government’s data stewardship practices

Start/End dates: 1 May 2019 to 30 November 2019 (then periodically ongoing)

Development of the stewardship overview was delayed until a decision was made on the Cabinet paper on strengthening data leadership across government. On 4 September 2018 the Cabinet committee authorised the Government Chief Data Steward to set mandatory standards and guidelines and direct agencies to adopt common data capabilities.
Creating a draft overview of government data stewardship practices is now underway. It is informed by the Data Strategy and Roadmap which was published on 18 October 2018.
Engagement with citizens and government was due to start on 1 December 2018 but will now start in February 2019, first with government officials then more widely.

We are developing an engagement plan that will use multiple channels to seek feedback on the draft overview from a wide range of citizens and government officials.

We will publish the engagement plan and a summary of feedback received up to the end of April, and use multiple channels to advise communities that these are available. Future updates will use the same channels.

The draft stewardship overview will be published in February 2019.
An engagement plan will be published and implemented in February 2019, seeking feedback on the draft overview.
A summary feedback report will be published after the initial engagement period has ended.