"[1] The stated purpose of the framework is to unlock for reuse the large amounts of material generated by government agencies, since it is "widely recognised, in New Zealand and abroad, that significant creative and economic potential may lie dormant in such material when locked up in agencies and not released on terms allowing re-use by others.
"[2] Essentially NZGOAL required government agencies to adopt a Creative Commons licence to data or information released with a high potential for public reuse.
[5] A corollary government instrument was the Declaration on Open and Transparent Government [6] in 2011, which sought "to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process."
Version 1 of NZGOAL applied to all State Sector agencies, including the Public Service and Crown Entities but this specifically excluded tertiary education institutions.
Open Educational Resources (OERs) have been slow to gain widespread adoption as teaching materials in New Zealand.
There has been a lack of national or agency-driven strategy, as there has been in countries like Canada, though there have been a number of institutional or individual developments.