The official home of the GovWorks NZ team, and our prototypes, experiments, projects and other shiny things.

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Apr 4, 2017

International Open Data Day: Wellington

International Open Data Day dawned bright and beautiful this year in Wellington.

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Jan 23, 2017

Service design for Councils: Better Gisborne events

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Jun 23, 2016

How many meetings has your councillor missed?

Your elected members are there to represent your…

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Jun 20, 2016

Using data to avoid food poisoning

How we’re looking after the participants at GovHack Whangarei

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Jun 20, 2016

Who’s fixing our streets?

We’ve all felt the frustration of seeing things in our spaces which shouldn’t be there. Potholes, fly dumps…

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Jun 16, 2016

Stop putting rubbish bins in all the wrong places!

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Jun 15, 2016

If a planning expert spoke human

Dropping the jargon from my planning evidence on the Proposed…

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Jun 7, 2016

No wonder people break council rules

My journey through the underworld of planning regulations

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Jun 7, 2016

Mapping your walkies

Whangarei is gorgeous (but unmapped).

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May 28, 2016

Confessions of a local government innovator

In the third week of February 2014, I did something that has never before been…

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