Let’s do it. Last summer, I met Pedro Markun and Daniela Silva at the Mozilla Summit. During the conversation – feeling the drumbeat vibe of the conference – we agreed it would be fun to do an international event. Something that could draw attention to open data. A few weeks before I’d met Edward Ocampo-Gooding, [...]
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Let’s do an International Open Data Hackathon
Minister Moore and the Myth of Market Forces
Last week was a bad week for the government on the copyright front. The government recently tabled legislation to reform copyright and the man in charge of the file, Heritage Minister James Moore, gave a speech at the International Chamber of Commerce in which he decried those who questioned the bill as “radical extremists.” The [...]
Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data
We didn’t build libraries for a literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have public policy literate citizens, we build them so that citizens may become literate in public policy. Yesterday, in a brilliant article on The Guardian website, Charles Arthur argued that [...]
Mozilla Drumbeat: Help keep the web open
Mozilla Drumbeat is the Mozilla Foundations new venture. An effort to reach out beyond those who have helped make the Firefox web browser to a broader community – those that care about keeping the internet open but who want to contribute in other ways. Drumbeat will have three components: 1) Projects – many of which [...]
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