***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
To further add to that point, Transpower is a state-owned enterprise. SOEs are a huge problem for open-data because they are beholden to profits over public good.
A good example of how SOEs work contrary to public good is trying to get housing data from QV: because the data they generate has “commercial value”, they are not required to release it as an SOE. This makes it very difficult to model the impact different housing policies might have.
Another example of gatekeeping data in the name of profit is our SOE MetService. Their paltry open-data offerings are the bare minimum to meet the government requirements, while their website and app try to pack ever-more advertisements into what should a public service.
In contrast, Crown Research Institutes seem to be a bit better on the open-data front. Even though it is metered, NIWA provides generous access to their historical data, at least in comparison to MetService.
State-owned Enterprises are a relic of neo-liberal economic reforms from the 70s and 80s. Some public services don’t benefit from the profit motive. My hope is that they are proactively re-evaluated instead of simply allowing them to ossify into the skeletons of public service they could be.
Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
Mama mia! (lemmy.nz)
A record-breaking year for political donations is no cause for celebration (thespinoff.co.nz)
Charts and Graphs of NZ Electricity (lemmy.nz)
There are a few dashboards around. I saw someone shared their own personal (next level!) grafana dashboard....