OpenData Links & Resources

This page is always being updated, latest changes Oct.9, 2011

  1. Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives
  2. Canada – Open Data Cities & Province
  3. Canada – Open Data Hackfests
  4. Canada – Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff:
  5. Canada – IT Open Data/Government Events – CIOs, IT professionals:
  6. Canada – Open Government Events
  7. Canada – Open Data/Access/Government Law
  8. Canada  – Associations
  9. International – Open Data
  10. International – Principles
  11. Reading Lists
  12. Canada – Free Data
  13. Canada – Federal Government Committees
  14. Cool Tools/Apps
  15. Data Visualization
  16. Canada – Civic Initiatives
  17. Canada – Lists

Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives

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Canada – Open Data Cities, Province & Feds.:

Federal:

  1. Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada - GeoConnections Natural Resources Canada
  2. Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government Resolutions
  3. Treasury Board of Canada – OpenData.gc.ca
  4. Research Data Canada – National Research Council
  5. ALMOST OPEN – Statistics Canada & Universities – Data Liberation Initiative
  6. Data dot GC.ca, Citizen’s initiative to Inspire the Canadian Government
  7. Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data

Provinces

  1. Data BC – Province, OpenData BC – Citizen Led

Cities/Munipalités

  1. G4 Open Data Framework; Municipal Open Government Framework
  2. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
  3. City of Calgary (AB)
  4. City of Edmonton (AB)
  5. City of Fredericton (NB)
  6. City of Guelph (ON), Guelph Coffee and Code – Citizen Led
  7. City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led
  8. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
  9. City of London (ON),  OpenData London – Citizen Led
  10. Township of Langley (BC)
  11. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
  12. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
  13. City of Nanaimo (ON)
  14. City of Niagara Falls (ON)
  15. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
  16. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData Ottawa; Apps
  17. Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Québec City
  18. City of Prince George (BC) catalog
  19. City of Surrey(BC) GIS Catalog
  20. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
  21. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
  22. Region of Waterloo (ON) – Citizen Led
  23. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog

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Canada Open Data Hackfests:

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Canada Open APPS Contests:

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Canada Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff:

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Canada IT Open Data/Government Events  – CIOs, IT professionals:

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Canada Open Government Events:

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Canada – Open Data/Access/Government/Transparency – Law:

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Canada – Associations

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International Open Data

  • U.S. – www.data.gov
  • U.K. – data.gov.uk ; UK Guardian Open Data
  • Australia - data.australia.gov.au
  • New Zealand – cat.open.org.nz
  • World Bank – http://data.worldbank.org
  • OpenPlans: US non-profit technology organization focused on civic engagement and open government. We use journalism and open source software to turn data into accessible, useful information. This work engages the average person in shaping their community.
  • CivicCommons: An independent non-profit organization, Civic Commons to help institutions share code and best practices, reform procurement practices, and learn to function not only as a provider of services but as a platform to which an ecosystem of industry can add value for government and its citizens.
  • Code for America: helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money.   Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

          Lists & Catalogs of Data

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Principles:

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Reading Lists:

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Free Data Canada:

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Federal Government Committees:

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Cool Tools/Apps:

  • many eyes: Their  “goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis”.  It makes visualizing  dataset very easy indeed.
  • Ushahidi: Information Collection, Visualization, & Interactive Mapping Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.
  • Visualizing.org: is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues through data and design… and it’s a shared space and free resource  to help you achieve this goal.
  • Guardian Open Platform: “is the suite of services that make it possible for our partners to build applications with the Guardian. We’ve opened up our platform so that everyone can benefit from our journalism, our brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk.”  Quite amazing really.  It is accompanied by many other useful data sharing and visualization services such as a DataStore and a Datablog.
  • Budget Plateau
  • Zone Cone

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Data Visualization Blogs:

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Civic Initiatives:

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Lists:

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