The single most important tool police have in their arsenal isn’t a gun, it isn’t baton, it isn’t even their badge. It is public confidence. It is this confidence that ensures the public they can have faith in some of the most important and powerful public servants they meet in their day to day lives, [...]
Entries tagged as “Toronto”
When Police Lie
Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion
Note: I’ll be on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight talking about Government 2.0. Why does open data matter? Rather than talk in abstract terms, let me share a well documented but little known story about how open data helped expose one of the biggest tax frauds in Canada’s history. It begins in early [...]
Mozilla Drumbeat: Help keep the web open
Mozilla Drumbeat is the Mozilla Foundations new venture. An effort to reach out beyond those who have helped make the Firefox web browser to a broader community – those that care about keeping the internet open but who want to contribute in other ways. Drumbeat will have three components: 1) Projects – many of which [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming talk: Toronto Innovation Showcase
Just a little FYI to let people know I’m going to be in Toronto on Monday, November 2nd for the City of Toronto’s Innovation Showcase. I’ll be doing a panel Open Government with Maryantonett Flumian (President of the Institute On Governance, I remember meeting her when she was Deputy Minister of Service Canada), Nick Vitalari [...]
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