Open Data Meetup - Auckland

What we’re about:

Open Data in NZ Meetups are for sharing the passion and success around the release of open data with like-minded people. Open Data in NZ Meetups are also a great opportunity to participate and have your say around government decision-making surrounding open data. Since we’ve had fantastic success with our Open Data community in Wellington, we want to extend and share the same passion and inspiration further a field - now in creating networks both in Auckland and Christchurch.

What to expect for this Meetup:

This inaugural Open Data Auckland Meetup will set the scene of where we are at with open data, in the process working on answering the following questions:

• What does it take for data to be considered “open”?

• Why try to make data open?

• So, New Zealand has signed up to the International Open Data Charter, so what?

• Why is this important?

• What is the “Open Data Programme” doing?

• What does it mean for me?

• How can I or my organisation contribute?

• What barriers that Governmental agencies have to overcome in order to open up their data

Networking and nibbles:

This is also a great opportunity to establish connections and grow your networks over some tasty pizza and refreshments. This will be hosted off the back of Data Visulisation Training Session 1 for those that are also registered for this event - sorry no more places left. Keep an eye out on our Twitter @opendatanz for more information on joining this event.

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