Browsing on The Treasury’s website the other day, it was the title that caught my eye: “Talkin’ about a revolution”. I’m rather wary of revolutions. Even when – not always, or perhaps even often – good and noble ideas help inspire them, the outcomes all too often leave a great deal to be desired. There are various, quite different, reasons for that, but one is about the failure to think through, or care about, things – themselves initially small or seemingly unimportant – that the revolution opens the way to.
This particular “revolution” – billed as “a quiet and sedate revolution, but a revolution nonetheless” – was sparked by Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI). Here is the Treasury author
The creation of Stats NZ’s IDI (or Integrated Data Infrastructure), a treasure trove of linked data, sparked the revolution, and its ongoing development drives it…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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