End outcome 4: Enhanced economic and social transformation through facilitation of connections in land information

What we seek to achieve

This end outcome seeks to ensure that the maximum economic and social benefits from LINZ's data, expertise, knowledge, and capabilities are realised for New Zealand.

Why this is a priority

This end outcome contributes to the Government's theme of 'economic transformation'. LINZ has developed significant data, expertise, knowledge, and capabilities that could provide additional economic opportunity when incorporated into third-party products, services and processes.

Making these assets available, accessible and usable by third parties to enhance their existing products and services or to create new products and services has the potential to contribute to New Zealand's economic growth, particularly in – but not limited to – the geospatial sector.

Achieving this outcome would mean:

• New Zealand is recognised as contributing to global geospatial developments, and
• there is greater collaboration across the public sector and between the public and private sectors.

Intermediate outcome

The intermediate outcome for LINZ that supports the achievement of this end outcome is an effective knowledge brokerage capability that proactively seeks opportunities for economic and social transformation.

Why this intermediate outcome

Achievement of this intermediate outcome will contribute to economic and social transformation.

While LINZ is not and does not seek to be a commercial entity, our data, expertise, knowledge, and capabilities have significant potential commercial value. This is particularly so in, but not limited to, the geospatial sector. By incorporating these LINZ 'assets' into their products and services, commercial entities could expand their products or services or create new ones, contributing to New Zealand's economic transformation. However, commercial entities will only incorporate LINZ's data into their products and services if they trust that the data is accurate within known tolerances, timely and reasonably complete. Furthermore, all these LINZ resources must be available, accessible and usable if LINZ is to share them with commercial entities.

By building a knowledge brokerage capability that proactively seeks opportunities and prospective partners for co-production, educates these prospective partners about our resources, co-ordinates resources, and facilitates an environment in which others can commercialise products and services, LINZ will dramatically increase the probability that our resources may be used to effect economic transformation.

Measuring 'enhanced economic and social transformation through facilitation of connections in land information markets'

Measures of this end outcome are still being developed. Some prospective measures are the number of successful cross-agency projects or the number of successful public/private collaborative projects in which LINZ is involved.

Achieving the end outcome

Our actions to achieve this end outcome can be broken down by LINZ's strategic goals in this area.

Co-ordinated all-of-government approach

Activities in support of this strategic goal include:

• identifying the key agencies with which LINZ must build close relationships
• building relationships of mutual trust that support shared outcomes, and
• developing cross-agency frameworks, methodologies, funding structures, and reporting structures.

Co-production between public and private sector to deliver public value

Activities in support of this strategic goal include:

• identifying opportunities to align government functions and industry activities in land information markets to promote economic progress
• developing a market-scanning capability that will allow LINZ to identify opportunities for new or enhanced land information market products and services
• helping to develop land information markets by sharing data, expertise and knowledge proactively
• promoting opportunities for innovation in land information markets, and
• connecting public and private organisations to promote co-operation and co-production.