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Vancouver Open Data Version 2: New Apps to create

Wow, wow, wow.
The City of Vancouver has just launched version 2 of its open data portal. A number of new data sets have been added to the site which is very exciting. Better still previously released data sets have been released in new formats.
Given that at 5pm tomorrow (Tuesday. Jan 26th) there will be the [...]

Posted 25 January 2010 | David Eaves § open data § open source § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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 is, of [...]

Posted 21 December 2009 | David Eaves § open data § open source § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

My Unfinished Business Talk in Toronto

I’m really pleased to share that I’ll be giving a talk at the Ontario College of Art & Design this January 14th, 2010. The talk is one I’ve been giving for government officials a fair bit of late – it is on how technology, open methodologies and social change are creating powerful pressures for reform [...]

Posted 16 December 2009 | David Eaves § cool links § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Open Data – USA vs. Canada

When it comes to Open Data in Canada and the United States, things appear to be similar. Both countries have several municipalities with Open Data portals: Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and now New York City in the US, Vancouver and Nanaimo in Canada with Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa thinking about or initiating plans.
But the [...]

Posted 08 October 2009 | David Eaves § canadian politics § open data § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

The Three Laws of Open Government Data

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, [...]

Posted 30 September 2009 | David Eaves § free culture § open data § public policy § public service sector renewal ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

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