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Our friends at freeourdata.org.uk have an article about abolishing Crown Copyright in the UK. Canada suffers under the same of copyright policy on government documents and data, while in the USA, everything published by the government is de facto public domain.
The key point is:
But the problem with crown copyright as it stands, and more importantly as it’s used, is that it’s used to restrict.
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datalibre.ca is a blog, inspired by civicaccess.ca, which believes all levels of Canadian governments should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens. The data is collected using Canadian tax-payer funds, and we believe use of the data should not be restricted to those who can afford the exorbitant fees. [more...]
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March 1, 2012 in Uncategorized
The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) and its Community Data Program is taking a leadership role in open data and open government and will be representing Canadian Civil Society at the Open Government Partnership meetings in Brazil. Harvey Low will be attending, and here is the letter of submission that introduces Harvey and CCSD [...]
February 25, 2012 in Uncategorized
I am happy to announce that the Canadian Council on Social Development‘s Community Data Program will be representing Canadian civil society at the Open Government Partnership meetings in Brazil. The letter that was submitted is available here. Harvey Low will be the Rep and he is looking for your insight! If you have not done [...]
February 18, 2012 in Uncategorized
This is a bit more data than I would like liberated. Loading… Also for some fun you may want to tell Vick everything cuz he really wants to know! #TellVicEverything @ToewsVic #Toews and I thought this one was pretty good: Dear Mr. @ToewsVic Because we love you, I am asking every Canadian to fax you [...]
February 14, 2012 in Uncategorized
This card was created for last year! But I am proud to share it again, because, well, ffunction‘s work is timeless.
February 13, 2012 in Uncategorized
Canadians working with statistical and research data include government documents librarians whom we find in most university research libraries. Many government document librarians and their colleagues, the data librarians, participate in the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) which I introduced in a post honouring one of its founders. They are also often members of the Canadian Association of Public Data [...]
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