Speaker Name(s): Lewis Melville, State Services Commision
Description: Civic 1, Day 1, 4.15pm Session The National Broadband Map is an online map created to provide a visual representation of New Zealand’s broadband landscape. It is a valuable resource for planning broadband infrastructure and investment within New Zealand, providing the most complete map of both current broadband supply networks and the actual and potential demand points for broadband. Transparency of broadband demand is necessary to provide a basis for the assessment of commercially sound and sustainable high-speed broadband infrastructure. The National Broadband Map is an international award winning example of government and the private sector working together to make information accessible to New Zealanders. The open source technology incorporated in the map allows any government agency, business or citizen to easily reuse, reanalyse, consume, or add to the publicly available data contained in the map. You can also reuse the mapping application itself to visualise your own diverse data sets. Key learning points: 1. Open data in action, getting information to the front line. 2. Government and the private sector working together to add value. 3. Visualising different types of data to provide outcomes for citizens. http://richmedia.govis.org.nz/govis/viewer/?peid=cf288292-777e-448b-bd3a-3dccf614a18f