open data initiatives in canada: one part of the open government conversation
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Canada’s Information Commissioners have adopted a resolution toward Open Government and part of the open government process is open access to public administrative, census, map and research data. A number of Canadian Cities, innovative government programs such as GeoConnections, forward thinking research funding such as International Polar Year have become OpenData cities, implemented data sharing infrastructures and fund data sharing science. Access to data are one part of the open government conversation, and it is argued that opendata bring us closer to more informed democratic deliberations on public policy.TRANSCRIPT
Open Data Initiatives in Canada:
Part of the OpenGov Conversation
Tracey P. Lauriault
Open Access Week: Carleton UniversityCarleton MacOdrum Library - Room 102Thursday, October 21st, 12:00-1:00pmOttawa
Open Government
http://www.infocom.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx
Open Government
Cultural change in government Access mechanisms built in to new
programs and services
Broad public consultation Identify what the public needs to
keep government accountable – build trust
Open Accessible Reusable Free or low cost, w/data stuctures
to discover, understand, interpret and develop technology to use + citizen participation
Open Government Data Principles
http://resource.org/8_principles.html
1.Complete: All public data are made available. Public data are data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations.
2. Primary: Data are as collected at the source, with the highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms.
3. Timely: Data are made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data.
4. Accessible: Data are available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purposes.
5. Machine processable: Data are reasonably structured to allow automated processing.
6. Non-discriminatory: Data are available to anyone, with no requirement of registration.
7. Non-proprietary: Data are available in a format over which no entity has exclusive control.
8. License-free: Data are not subject to any copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy, security and privilege restrictions may be allowed.
Consultation
Gov. Consultations - Old School
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/consultation/ContentReport-RapportContenu/index-eng.cfm
Trusted, expensive, broad, tradional, & in this case overruled.
Cit. & Gov. Consultations - New School
http://transitcamp.wik.s/2007_Transit_Camp
http://changecamp.ca/ http://opengovwest.org
Citizen led, engaged, innovative, risk taking, creative change is expected. Needs to be more sustainable.
Gov. Consultation - Wrong School
http://datalibre.ca/2010/07/14/consultation-real-results/
Citizens are building tools to encourage Gov. to be more transparent
Transparency - APP
Proactive Disclosure
http://www.ec.gc.ca/
Transparency-Visualization
FFunction http://ffctn.com/expensevisualizer
http://ffctn.com/blog
Citizens want their leaders to be accountable.
Accountability
http://howdtheyvote.ca/
Page Scraping
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberSittings.aspx
Screen / page scraping: “is a technique in which a computer program extracts data from the display output of another program. The program doing the scraping is called a screen scraper. The key element that distinguishes screen scraping from regular parsing is that the output being scraped was intended for final display to a human user, rather than as input to another program, and is therefore usually neither documented nor structured for convenient parsing”.
http://www.cramster.com/reference/wiki.aspx?wiki_name=Screen_scraping
Accountability
http://citizenfactory.com
Accountability
Accountability
http://representme.ca
Data to inform elections
Community Development Halton http://www.cdhalton.ca/pdf/election2010/Select-data-Halton-wards.pdf
Cities in Canada are taking the lead
City of Nanaimo
http://www.nanaimo.ca/datafeeds/
District of North Vancouver
http://geoweb.dnv.org/index.html
City of Vancouver
http://data.vancouver.ca
City of Calgary
http://calgaryonlinestore.com/publicdata.asp
City of Edmonton
http://data.edmonton.ca
Cities are building new governance structures
City of London
http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Open_Data/default.htm
Open data is a dance performance between citizens and city governments
City of Toronto
http://www.toronto.ca/open/
http://www.datato.org/app/
The GovernmentThe Community
City of Ottawa
http://www.ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/index_en.html
http://www.opendataottawa.ca/
The GovernmentThe Community
http://traceyplauriault.ca/010/07/21/changecamp-ottawa-2010-open-data-terms-of-use-session/
Ville de Montréal
In Progress – Stay Tuned!!
http://montrealouvert.net
The GovernmentThe Community
Cities are working together
G4 + 1
http://www.slideshare.net/jkonga/gov-20-and-open-data-sustainability
http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/topics-a-z/c/canada-topics-a-z/municipal
-open-government-framework-work-in-progress.html
Hacktivists are building apps for citizens
Hackfests
http://govcamp.ca/hackfest-and-draftfest-canada-govcamp-2011/
http://www.hackfest.ca/?lg=en
http://miwhackathon.eventbrite.com/
https://www.socialtext.net/http://opendataapps.org/
Public participation app
http://fixmystreet.ca/
City Apps4Contests
http://contest.apps4edmonton.ca/
http://www.apps4ottawa.ca/
Provinces are also starting
BC – Climate Change Data
http://apps4climateaction.gov.bc.ca/
http://data.gov.bc.ca/index.html
The elder statesperson is NRCan
NRCan
http://www.geoconnections.org
http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca
http://www.geobase.ca
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/
Citizens are working together nationally
Advocates
http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss
http://visiblegovernment.ca/
http://datalibre.ca/
The conversation has just started, and I hope we can mobilize our
national knowledge resources at all scales to collectively work on
resolving some of our toughest issues and to create a more open, inclusive
& collaborative culture.