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• Statistics Canada’s Chief Economic Analyst Resigns

  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 [...]

• Stop SOPA / PIPA

  January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

  Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest and what you can do.  (via Michael Geist)

• Open Government Submissions

  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: [...]

• TBS Open Data and Open Government Consultation Response

  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 [...]

• Guest Post – Building a Business on Open Data

  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 [...]