I am always impressed with what a few hundred dollars and a contest can produce. FlowingData ran a financial crisis visualization contest where they offered $500 to the best global finance infographic and had these judged by a prominent economist. Go and check out the results – you’ll see some very clever ways to unravel the complexity!
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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
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Open Government Partnership (OGP) DRAFT Letter of the Community Data Program
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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
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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 [...]
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March 15, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Hugh
thanks!