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Open Data

IILF 2019

Ko wai ahau?

  • Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha
  • Nō Moeraki ahau
  • He kaituhi papatono rorohiko tōku mahi
  • One of the original Koha developers
  • Working at Catalyst IT
  • Former board member Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ
  • Former board member National Digital Forum
  • @ranginui on the twitters

Nō hea ahau?

Raraunga tuwhera

Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

 

- Open Data Handbook

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Raraunga tuwhera

 

Availability and Access

 

Re-use and Redistribution

 

Universal Participation

He aha ai?

Interoperability

Pai nē rā?

Kia tūpato

 

The key point is that when opening up data, the focus is on non-personal data, that is, data which does not contain information about specific individuals.

Pai tonu?

When released in its raw form, data is not open to the public in any meaningful sense. It is only open to a small elite of technical specialists (and those who can afford to hire them) who know how to interpret and use it.

 

It's only open, if it's open all the way down.

He raru ki uta

Inaccurate data

 

Flawed interpretation

 

Ētahi atu raruraru

He raru ki tai

The Investment Approach to Justice: Taking Integrated Offender Management to Police, Justice and the wider social sector - Tim Hughes Principal Adviser, Ministry of Justice
 

These life-course risk models will be built on the Integrated Data Infrastructure at Statistics NZ. This powerful database hosts a very wide range of anonymised information about all New Zealanders, including records about tax, earnings and employment records, health, education, and welfare receipt. We will use factors such as age, and early CYF involvement, to predict future offending and victimisation for the resident population of New Zealand.

Tētahi atu raru ki tai

Individuals in general experience the dispossession of their data, but marginalized persons and groups experience additional ways in which their data is “colonized” and used to further discriminate against them.

(Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism

- Monique Mann and Angela Daly

Can we get past these problems?

Power based analysis

Maximise autonomy by keeping data private (mana motuhake)

 

While maximising control over the state by being able to see the data they are using

 

Very simplistically

View it through the lens of the power differential, those with the power should be open, those without, not so much.

We are used to asking:

  • What do we do with all these data?
  • How do we catalogue them?
  • How should we use them?

 

Less often we consider the questions:

  • Should we collect, aggregate, catalogue and exploit these data?
  • If so, how?
  • What would be ethical means for doing so?

The Good Data Manifesto

Good Data -Edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann.

 

http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/

  • Te Mana Rarauranga
  • US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN)
  • OCAP® (Ownership, Control, Access, Possession)
  • Maiam nayri Wingara

 

Organisations working on Data sovereignty

Nā reira

Data can be good, or bad, and used for good or bad

Open data makes bad data worse, and good data better (maybe)

 

Be very careful, once released under an open license you can never unrelease it.

 

Smash the patriarchy and capitalism, exert tino rangatiratanga