Last week I received two invitations to present. The first was an invitation to present to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. They are preparing a report on Open Government and would like me to make a short presentation and then answer questions for a couple of hours. This is [...]
Entries from November 2010
Opening up parliament and getting government IT right
International Open Data Hackathon – 63 cities, 25 countries, 5 continents
…and counting. Never could any of us have imagined that there would be so many stepping forward to organize an event in their cities. The clear implication is that Open Data matters. To a lot of people. To a lot of us. If you are in the media, a politician or the civil service: pay [...]
Open Data: If British Conservatives get it right, the French…
This is a pretty stunning press release from Access Info Europe concerning the French government’s response to the open data movement. Statist government’s were always going to struggle with the internet and open data… but this shows just how bad things can get. Press Release For immediate publication France proposes police controls on who uses [...]
How Tories could do transparency – Globe and Mail
Today’s blog post appears in the Globe and Mail. You can read it there (please do, also give it a vote). How Tories could do transparency Britain’s new Conservative government did something on Friday that Canadians would fine impossible to imagine. After a brief video announcement from Prime Minister David Cameron about the importance of [...]
Patch Culture, Government and why Small Government Advocates are expensive
So earlier today I saw this post by Kevin Gaudet, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and retweeted by Andrew Coyne (one of the country’s best commentators). It pretty much sums up why Governments (incorrectly) fear open data and open government: The link is to a story on The Sun’s website: Government agencies caught [...]
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