"Data is like water. It's so intrinsically important for an organisation – without it, you will die of thirst."

  – Simon Herbert, Chief Data Officer & Executive Director, Data and Insights, Department of Customer Service

On Thursday 21 October 2021, over 380 participants gathered online to attend the CX Professionals and Data Champions Network event.

The NSW Government receives, uses, and manages information on behalf of the NSW public, other agencies, states and territories and the Commonwealth Government as part of normal business processes. Any compromise of this information could result in harm to individuals, organisations, or government and therefore it is important to protect it. 

In November 2019, the NSW Building Commissioner, David Chandler, engaged the NSW Government’s Better Regulation Division (BRD) to improve the construction of residential buildings in NSW.  

David implemented Construct.NSW – a revolutionary six pillar initiative to overhaul the NSW construction industry and address building quality issues highlighted in the Shergold Weir Report. 

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

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.

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.