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July 20, 2010 by Tracey | 3 comments
This list is now being updated daily on the Census Watch Page.
List of Organizations Opposed to Changing the Long Form of the Census
This list was compiled by W. T. Stanbury (wstanbury@prodigy.net.mx) and Armine Yalnizyan, Canadian Centre for Policy Analysis [last update:July 20,2010 ]
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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May 15, 2013 in Uncategorized
Our friends in la belle province are doing some lovely work! The image is available on Flickr and see what DémocratieOuvete.org are up to!
May 8, 2013 in Uncategorized
A survey is not a census, a census is a state sanctioned mandatory scientific and systematically carried out count of the population and its characteristics. It is a national civic duty to fill it out, providing of course one believes that knowing the nature of the Canadian population matters. A volunteer survey can be a [...]
April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized
I just came across some intensive data science training programs. It is all part of the Data Deluge and I am sure universities are going to go big on this topic in the next 5 years, especially with the ubiquitous talk every time I turn around about big data. I am also sure there will [...]
April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized
Open data is happening on one side of government while access to data and information is getting either reduced or locked down in other parts. This story about muzzling archivists was released some weeks ago. An anecdote. Yesterday I went to see the movie NO, about the marketing campaign for the NO side of the [...]
April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized
The Open Data Exchange (ODX13) was a really great day. Below are my slides and related URLS. The main point was to discuss how we take the learning by doing that has been ongoing in the open data field and now begin to integrate long standing and well established open access to data thinking such [...]
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