Creating Digital NZ: Working Papers

A series of working papers were commissioned during the development of Creating Digital New Zealand: The Draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy.  The first three of these working papers have been published and are available below:

Working Paper 1: Access Issues – Geospatial Content

The term geospatial refers to maps and images of the Earth’s surface and near surface and their digital equivalents. The power of geospatial content lies in its ability to present data as maps, revealing trends, patterns, and answers that are not as easily detected in other data presentation formats. It has been estimated that approximately 80% of all data has a location component. Increasing amounts of geospatial information are becoming available to the wider public, but in the main, public access to a significant amount of New Zealand born and held geospatial content remains difficult, with barriers posed by accessibility issues, price and application.  This paper explores these issues.

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Working Paper 2: Strategy and Intellectual Property – Scoping the Legal Issues

Written prior to the introduction into Parliament of the Copyright (New Technologies and Performers’ Rights) Amendment Bill 2006, this paper considers the interaction of copyright law, and other intellectual property laws, with the New Zealand government’s Digital Strategy. The paper suggests that those laws have both the potential to enhance and further the government's underlying strategy, and that individual property rights do not necessarily threaten the overarching goal of making as much material available to as many New Zealanders as possible.

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Working Paper 3: Valuing Digital Content: Economic Perspectives

This paper was commissioned to address seven aspects of the digital content sector to help establish an economic and policy context for the proposed New Zealand Digital Content Strategy.  The paper identifies the makeup of the digital content sector, international trends, different international approaches to digital content, industry connections between the digital content sector and other sectors, potential future approaches to measuring the contribution of digital content to the New Zealand economy, and opportunities and obstacles for growing the digital content sector and competing in the global marketplace.

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