A few months ago some of you will remember I blogged about How Open Data even makes Garbage collection sexier, easier and cheaper. I suggested that, with open data, coders could digitize the city’s garbage collection schedule and city maps and enable citizens to download it into their calendar or even set up a recurring [...]
Entries tagged as “OpenCities”
Garbage Collection now IS sexy: Introducing VanTrash
How to Engage Citizens on a Municipal Website…
Sometimes, it’s nice to be small, the City of Nanaimo has been pushing the envelop on open data and open government for a number of years now. Recently, I was directed to their new Council Agendas and Minutes webpage. I recommend you check it out. Here’s why. At first blush the site seems normal. There [...]
Opendata & Opencities: Proposed panel for SXSWi
Over the past year I’ve been inspired by the fact that an increasing number of cities are thinking about how to more effectively share the data they generate with their citizens. As most readers of this blog are probably aware, I’ve been engrossed advising the Mayor’s Office here in Vancouver on the subject and am [...]
Creating the Open Data Bargain in Cities
Embedded below is the talk I’ve given to both community hackers (at Open Web Vancouver) as well as City of Vancouver Staff regarding the opportunities and challenges around open data and the open motion. (Here’s an update on where Vancouver is at courtesy of some amazing work by city staff). For those willing to brave [...]
Open Data at the City of Vancouver – An Update 16/7/2009
For those interested in the progress around the Open Motion (or Open3 as city staff have started to call it) I’ve a little update. Last week during a visit to city hall to talk about the motion I was shown a preview of the website the city has created to distribute and share data sets. [...]
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