Yesterday, at the Right To Know Week panel discussion – Conference for Parliamentarians: Transparency in the Digital Era – organized by the Office of the Information Commissioner I shared three laws for Open Government Data that I’d devised on the flight from Vancouver.
The Three Laws of Open Government Data:
If it can’t be spidered or indexed, [...]
Last November my friend Mark Surman – Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation – gave this wonderful speech entitled “A City that Thinks Like the Web” as a lunchtime keynote for 300 councillors, tech staff and agency heads at the City of Toronto’s internal Web 2.0 Summit.
During the talk the Mayor of Toronto took notes [...]
No it is not the swagger of a recently bought out start-up founder, it is the very cool new feature google map just threw in.
Normally, when you get directions on google maps it assumes you are in a car, so shows you the fastest route as if you are driving. This means that it takes [...]
Metronauts, eat your hearts out. :)
Was back in Vancouver yesterday. It was a glorious day – the kind that you write in your blog about. Anyway, rode the bus downtown for several meetings and noticed this sign:
In short, you can now text “33333″ + the identifying number found on every bus stop in Vancouver and… [...]
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