A number of governments have begun to initiate open data and open government strategies. With more governments moving in this direction a growing number of public servants are beginning to understand the issues, obstacles, challenges and opportunities surrounding open data and open government. Indeed, these challenges are why many of these public servants frequent this [...]
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Are you a Public Servant? What are your Open Data Challenges?
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 [...]
On Governments and Intellectual Property (or why we move slowly)
David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week. The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the hands of those who desperately needed it. But alas, no [...]
The Web and the End of Forgetting: the upside of down
A reader recently pointed me to a fantastic article in the New York Times entitled The Web and the End of Forgetting which talks about the downside of a world where one’s history is permanently recorded on the web. It paints of the dangers of a world where one can never escape one’s past – [...]
Creating Open Data Apps: Lessons from Vantrash Creator Luke Closs
Last week, as part of the Apps for Climate Action competition (which is open to anyone in Canada), I interviewed the always awesome Luke Closs. Luke, along with Kevin Jones, created VanTrash, a garbage pick up reminder app that uses open data from the City of Vancouver. In it, Luke shares some of the lessons [...]
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