The theme for Right to Know Week NSW 2021 is Open by Design: integrity through greater transparency and accountability in government.

The NSW Government Data Strategy is now live. Learn more in our blog post here.

Data.NSW celebrates Privacy Awareness Week 2021 from 3 to 9 May. Take a look at our new blog post here.

Data.NSW celebrates Open Data Day on 6 March 2021. Watch our new video here.

Data.NSW is the NSW Government’s open data portal. Data from other open data portals, such as the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment’s (DPIE) SEED Portal can be searched for via Data.NSW. In this data story, we share DPIE’s work to collect data on water quality following the 2019-2020 bushfires and release it as open data making it available to the community, informing planning and promoting research. 

The Department of Customer Service has recently completed work on the NSW Infrastructure Data Management Framework (IDMF), a recommendation of the State Infrastructure Strategy (SIS) 2018-2038. The IDMF provides guidance on the management of data generated and used during the lifecycle of state infrastructure.

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The NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC) is delivering a range of enterprise and open data products to inform the government and community in response to COVID-19. This blog discusses how strong data governance and effective data stewardship practices at the DAC have helped deliver some of these for the NSW Government COVID-19 Data Program, and reflects on learnings from that perspective.

This week is Right to Know Week NSW. This year, the theme is Right to Know: Future-proofing information access rights.

The NSW State Emergency Service and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment launched the NSW Flood Data Portal in late 2017, which aims to improve the sharing of key flood data within government and with stakeholders.

In September 2017 the NSW Flood Data Access Program was launched. This was a partnership between the NSW State Emergency Service and the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage with two main initiatives, the NSW Flood Data Portal, and the NSW Flood Database.