The other week I received an invitation from the Canadian Standing Parliamentary Committee on Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics to come and testify about open government and open data on February 1st. The Committee has talked a great deal about its efforts to engage in a study of open government and since February 1st [...]
Entries tagged as “government 2.0”
An Open Letter on Open Government to the Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Parliamentary Committee
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 [...]
Let’s do an International Open Data Hackathon
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, [...]
Which App for Climate Action do you like most?
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 [...]
Apps for Climate Action Update – Lessons and some new sexy data
Okay, so I’ll be the first to say that the Apps4Climate Action data catalog has not always been the easiest to navigate and some of the data sets have not been machine readable, or even data at all. That however, is starting to change. Indeed, the good news is three fold. First, the data catalog [...]
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