A number of governments have begun to initiate open data and open government strategies. With more governments moving in this direction a growing number of public servants are beginning to understand the issues, obstacles, challenges and opportunities surrounding open data and open government. Indeed, these challenges are why many of these public servants frequent this [...]
Entries from August 2010
Are you a Public Servant? What are your Open Data Challenges?
Breaking: A private members bill for reinstating long-form census to be announced today at 11am
This is an Eaves.ca exclusive. On the matter of a issue that just won’t go away, today the Liberal’s will be tabling a private members bill to reinstate the Long-Form Census today at 11am EST. Post below is a copy of the press release and the proposed bill. I suspect there will be more on [...]
Creating effective open government portals
In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data – in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect. Increasingly, people approach me and ask: what makes for a good open data portal? Great [...]
Interview on Open Source, Open Gov & Open Data withe CSEDEV
The other week – in the midst of boarding a plane(!) – I did an interview with the CSEDEV on some thoughts around open data, open government and open source. The kind people at CSEDEV have written up the interview in a kind of paraphrased way and published it as three short blog posts here, [...]
The week in review (or… why I blog and a thank you)
Here’s a few snippets of comments, emails and other communications I’ve had this week in response to specific posts or just the blog in general. Each one touches on why I love blogging and my readers and why this blog has come to mean so much to me. Venting, and finding out your not alone… [...]
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