With the International Open Data Hackathon a little more the 2 weeks away a lot has happened. On the organizing wiki people in over 50 cities in 21 countries and 4 continents have offered to organize local events. Open data sets that people can use have been posted to a specially created page, a few [...]
Entries from November 2010
Open Data planning session at BarCamp Vancouver
Is Government Funding the Kiss of Death?
Over the past few years/months talking to various people in the charitable and non-profit sector a recurring theme has emerged: More and more of them are either eschewing government funding or trying to find ways to do so. Given that governments are the largest source of funding… why would they do this? The reason is [...]
Launching Emitter.ca: Open Data, Pollution and Your Community
This week, I’m pleased to announce the beta launch of Emitter.ca – a website for locating, exploring and assessing pollution in your community. Why Emitter? A few weeks ago, Nik Garkusha, Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy Lead and an open data advocate asked me: “are there any cool apps you could imagine developing using Canadian federal [...]
How I blogged so far this week
Just a quick apology to blog readers this week, I know I’ve only blogged once – announcing the launch of datadotgc.ca v2. Between that, the launch of emitter.ca (more on that tomorrow), OpenGovWest BC, the growing international open data hackathon and a few other things, I’ve been feeling a little like this: Have a post [...]
Launching datadotgc.ca 2.0 – bigger, better and in the clouds
Back in April of this year we launched datadotgc.ca – an unofficial open data portal for federal government data. At a time when only a handful of cities had open data portals and the words “open data” were not being even talked about in Ottawa, we saw the site as a way to change the [...]
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