urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens
October 8, 2007 by Hugh | 6 comments
The World Freedom Atlas is:
an online geo-visualization tool that shows a number of freedom indicators so to speak. For example, you can map by a number of indexes such as raw political rights score, civil liberties, political imprisonment, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or torture. If I’ve counted correctly the data comes from 42 datasets divided into three categories:
[from the wonderfully-named blog, flowingdata.com]
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...]
Email: contact AT datalibre DOT ca
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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