Wānanga Parongo Ōkawa Official Information Forum

The Official Information Forum provides an opportunity for agency leaders and practitioners to come together to discuss official information practices, issues and to learn from each other.

The Official Information Forum is open to staff from all public sector agencies subject to the Official Information Act 1982.

Official Information Forum agendas can range from introductory sessions for those new to working with the Act, to the day-to-day implementation of the Act, to driving agency process and practice improvement.

A timetable of Forum events for the year is published below. This will be updated as dates and agendas are confirmed.

• Official Information Forum 2024 programme(PDF, 54 KB)
• Schedule of Forum events 2023(PDF, 153 KB) (as at December 2022)
• Final Schedule of Forum events 2022(PDF, 67 KB) (updated December 2022)
• Final Schedule of Forum events 2021(PDF, 65 KB) (updated December 2021)
• Final schedule of Forum events 2020(PDF, 88 KB) (updated December 2020)

Information is published here after each meeting. We remove information after 5 years — contact us for earlier presentations: oiaforum@publicservice.govt.nz

27 February 2024 - OI Forum: New OIA Practitioners

• Official Information Forum New Practitioners February 2024(PDF, 4.7 MB)

25 October 2023 - OI Forum: New OIA Practitioners

• Official Information Forum New Practitioners October 2023(PPTX, 26 MB)

12 June 2023: OIA Forum: Presentation from Public Service Commissioenr, election guidance and managing OIA processes in different team environments.

• Presentation Election Guidance and OIA practices in different team environments(PDF, 650 KB)

3 May 2023 - New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations - New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 4.6 MB)

29 March 2023 - OIA Forum: OIA statistics, managing capacity and processes & OIA practices in relation to media requests

• Presentation Jun - Dec 2022 OIA statistics managing capacity and process OIA practices in relation to media requests (PDF, 449 KB)

21 November 2022 — OI Forum 21 November 2022: Jan-Jun 2022 OIA statistics, Ready or Not, working at a time of pace, pressure and change 

• Presentation: Jan-Jun 2022 OIA statistics, Ready or Not, working at a time of pace, pressure and change (PDF, 607 KB)

19 October 2022 – New OIA Practitioners 

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 4.9 MB)

2 August 2022 – New OIA Practitioners 

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 4.4 MB)

8 June 2022 — OI Forum 8 June 2022: Handling complex requests and new official information developments

• Presentations: Handling complex requests and new OI developments(PDF, 6.2 MB)

4 May 2022 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 3.9 MB)

28 March 2022 — Impacts of Covid (incl. Ombudsman’s guidance), Jul-Dec 21 OIA statistics

• Presentations: impacts of Covid, Ombudsman’s guidance, Jul–Dec 21 OIA statistics(PDF, 1.7 MB)

7 December 2021 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 4.3 MB)

15 Nov 2021 — Procurement, model search policy, looking ahead to 2022

• Presentations: OI Forum 15 November 2021— procurement, model search policy, looking ahead to 2022(PDF, 419 KB)

4 October 2021 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 4.2 MB)

6 September 2021 — New Office of the Ombudsman team, Jan-Jun OIA statistics

• Presentations: OI Forum 6 September 2021 — new OOTO team, Jan–Jun OIA statistics(PDF, 681 KB)

31 May 2021 — Information management, redaction, workforce deployment, OIA statistics

• Presentations: Information Management(PDF, 1.9 MB)

14 April 2021 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: New OIA Practitioners(PDF, 5.7 MB)

8 March 2021 — Panel Discussion Proactive release, Workforce Deployment, OIA statistics to December 2020

• Presentation: Panel Discussion Proactive release; Workforce Deployment; OIA statistics to December 2020(PDF, 793 KB)

23 November 2020 — Public Service Act, Covid, and “The OIA in Context”

• Presentation 1: Public Service Act 2020 and official information; Official Information and COVID(PDF, 376 KB)
• Presentation 2: Guest Speaker Andrew Ecclestone — “The OIA in Context”(PDF, 21 MB)

28 October 2020 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: Presentations: Ombudsman's resources for agencies; Te Kawa Mataaho resources and networks(PDF, 3.9 MB)

7 September 2020 — Officials’ names and proactive release

• Presentations: New Ombudsman's guides — Names and contact details of public sector employees, Proactive release; OIA statistics to June 2020(PDF, 1.3 MB)

27 July 2020 (postponed from March 2020) — Government Recordkeeping

• Chief Archivist’s presentation: Public recordkeeping and OIA — Findings from Archives NZ’s annual survey 2019(PPTX, 1.9 MB)

11 November 2019

• Presentation — OI Forum — Official information reporting, review of 2019, look ahead to 2020

09 October 2019 — New OIA Practitioners

• Presentations: Ombudsman's resources for agencies; SSC resources and networks(PDF, 2.6 MB)

13 August 2019 — Accessibility, and proactive release of Cabinet papers

• Accessibility — Official Information Forum for Leaders
• Monitoring and reporting of proactive release, and review of the Cabinet paper policy(PDF, 285 KB)

11 February 2019 — Practitioners’ forum on the publication of OIA responses

• Presentations: Official Information Work Programme; Proactive release of OIA responses - guidance, case studies from Stats NZ and Wairarapa DHB(PDF, 5.7 MB)

29 November 2018 — Practitioners’ workshop on proactive release of Cabinet papers

• Presentations: Proactive release of Cabinet papers; Case studies — Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Ministry of Education (Fees-Free)(PDF, 4 MB)

31 October 2018 — Leaders’ forum on proactive release of Cabinet papers and OIA practice reviews

• Presentations: Proactive Release of Cabinet papers; Official Information Practice Investigations — overview from Office of the Ombudsman, agency reports from Department of Conservation and Ministry for Culture and Heritage(PDF, 5.4 MB)

20 August 2018 — Practitioners' forum on proactive release of official information

• Presentations: Proactive release and publishing responses to OIA requests; Case study — Releasing weekly reports; Redacting done right(PDF, 2.8 MB)
• Presentation on proactive release of information(PDF, 452 KB)
• Summary of feedback from the forum(PDF, 592 KB)