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• Submitted OGP Letter

  February 6, 2012 in Uncategorized

  Below is the letter that was submitted today requesting that the Community Data Program be a civil society representative for Canada at the Open Government Partnership meetings in Brazil 2012. Community Data Program OGP Submitted Letter View more documents from Tracey P. Lauriault

• Open Government Partnership (OGP) DRAFT Letter of the Community Data Program

  February 4, 2012 in Uncategorized

  The date of submission is Monday the 6th of February. If you have comments or would like to endorse this letters please email me at tlauriau@gmail.com, Thanks! The CDP just received a new endorsement from Open North Inc. Community Data Program DRAFT letter to Open Government Partneship View more documents from Tracey P. Lauriault

• Guest Blog Post: Mathew Dance – The GeoWeb, Citizen Science and Open Data

  February 4, 2012 in Uncategorized

  Matthew is a graduate student at the University of Alberta, an Open Data advocate and an aspiring neogeographer. He can be reached via email at mdance@ualberta.ca or @mattdance.  I met at the Cybera Data for All Summit in Banff last year. ********************************* The GeoWeb, Citizen Science and Open Data We are at a confluence. The two related [...]

• Statistics Canada’s Chief Economic Analyst Resigns

  February 2, 2012 in Uncategorized

  It is very troubling when the nation’s top data producing agency squashes debate and pretends that the data it is producing is ‘methodologically sound and scientifically valid’ and communications departments call the shots while scientists, methodologists and subject matter specialists are silenced.  The governments is promoting transparency on one side (e.g. open.gc.ca), Canada has signed onto [...]

• Stop SOPA / PIPA

  January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

  Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest and what you can do.  (via Michael Geist)