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• Civil Society Consulations for OGP in Brazil

  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 [...]

• The Community Data Program is Going to Brazil

  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 [...]

• Too much data of a certain kind is not a good thing!

  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 [...]

• Happy V Day

  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.  

• Guest blog post: Data dissemination initiatives from Statistics Canada, by Aspi Balsara, government documents librarian.

  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 [...]