Do you know about New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (V2)?

In 2014 the government published their Open Access and Licensing Framework version 2. The point is to unlock the potential of government generated material by allowing it to be re-used.

From the Purpose Section Point 1.

State Services agencies generate vast quantities of copyright and non-copyright material. It is widely recognised, in New Zealand and abroad, that significant creative and economic potential may lie dormant in such material when locked up in agencies and not released on terms allowing re-use by others.

‍I am not sure how much uptake there has been in relation to this framework. My recollection is that Universities and CRIs are not required to follow it, and therefore generally do not. It would be wonderful if non-commercial information generated by those types of institutions could have greater value to the citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand through the application of NZGOAL.

‍In addition to NZGOAL, the government added a software extension (NZGOAL-SE). I had the privilege to be involved in, what was, a highly responsive consultation process. By that time, I had left the world of CRIs where I had experienced first hand the duplicated efforts across several of them and an absolute refusal to share code. The primary issue seemed to be a total lack of understanding or misunderstanding (by management and legal counsel) of how free and open source software licenses worked. This is despite decades of use of software under those types of licenses by crown entities, including CRIs. Here we are 8 years after the software extension was published and I am not sure much has changed.