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 [...]
Entries tagged as “government 2.0”
Which App for Climate Action do you like most?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Q&A from O’Reilly Media: Gov 2.0 International Online Conference
I know during my session I wasn’t able to answer everyone’s questions. However, I was able to find a few other questions in the chat and twitter stream. I’m a big believer that everyone should have a chance to ask a question so – with apologies that I couldn’t do them live – here are [...]


