Yesterday, at 5pm PST the Apps for Climate Action team at the Province of British Columbia released the list of 17 applications created using data from the Apps for Climate Action data catalog. At the moment anyone can register and vote for the application that they think is the best. I’d encourage people to click [...]
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How to Engage with Social Media: An Example
The other week I wrote a blog post titled Canadian Governments: How to Waste millions online ($30M and Counting) in which I argued that OpenID should be the cornerstone of the government’s online identification system. The post generated a lot of online discussion, much of which was of very high quality and deeply thoughtful. On [...]
Half victory in making BC local elections more transparent
Over the past few months the British Columbia government (my home province – or for my American friends – state) has had a taskforce looking at reforming local (municipal) election rules. During the process I submitted a suggestion to the taskforce outlining why campaign finance data should be made available online and in machine readable [...]
Canadian Governments: How to waste millions online ($30M and counting)
Back from DC and Toronto I’m feeling recharged and reinvigorated. The Gov 2.0 expo was fantastic, it was great to meet colleagues from around the world in person. The FCM AGM was equally exciting with a great turnout for our session on Government 2.0 and lots of engagement from the attendees. So, now that I’m [...]
BC Government’s blog on renewing the Water Act
On Friday the Government of British Columbia announced that it was beginning the process to renew the province’s water act. This is, in of itself, important and good. More interesting however, is that the government has chosen to launch a blog to discuss ideas, prospective changes and generally engage the public on water issues. It [...]
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