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Officials say transparency is critical to build trust in the government's most important data system, but the business case for expanding it is mostly blanked out.
Over two-thirds of the 95 pages in the business case to overhaul the Integrated Data Infrastructure, or IDI, are entirely (or a few almost entirely) redacted.
The black pen has been swept over all the options the government is looking at, all the costs to the taxpayer and the cost-benefit analysis.
Yet the business case report stated, "Transparency was highlighted as critical to building trust, with calls for clearer communication about data use, access, and safeguards."
This was after holding five workshops with iwi, industry and non-government organisations a few months back.
Some groups really did not trust what government was doing with data, the report noted.
Referring to feedback from the Data Iwi Leaders Group, Stats NZ said, "Trust and reciprocity were identified as foundational to any future data system."
A much more powerful IDI is crucial to the government's social investment approach, but there we
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