Here’s what Twitter users think about their candidates
Voici ce que les utilisateurs de Twitter pensent de leurs candidats

urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens
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September 14, 2008 by Hugh | No comments
Here’s what Twitter users think about their candidates
Voici ce que les utilisateurs de Twitter pensent de leurs candidats
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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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 [...]
January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized
Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest and what you can do. (via Michael Geist)
January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized
Here is a list submissions that I will update as information comes in: CIPPIC Submission: CIPPIC Participates in the Open Government Consultation CPScpsrenewal (Nick Charney): Submission Mike Kujawsky: Submission The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (Heather Morrison): Submission datalibre.ca (Tracey Lauriault): Response David Eaves: Submission Herb Lainchbury: Submission BC Fredom of Information and Privacy Association: [...]
January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized
Below is my response to the Open Government Consultations. I look forward to the government follow-up. ******************* 1. What could be done to make it easier for you to find and use government data provided online? Each government department, crown corporation and agency should have a chief data officer (CDO) responsible for implementing opendata and [...]
December 29, 2011 in Uncategorized
I met Terence Gannon at the Cybera Summit 2011 in Banff of this year and was most impressed with his open data business model and invited him to prepare a guest post. Here is the link to the video of that presentation. ***************************** Many efforts to open up public data stores are oriented to the [...]

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