Monday, 18 April 2011

Openness, service classification and Rob Ford's service review #opendata #opengov #TOcouncil #TOpoli

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Anyone following municipal politics in Toronto knows that there are huge pressures on next year’s municipal budget. Combined with Rob Ford’s...
Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Defining Open Government #opendata #opengov #TOpoli

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Awareness of Open Data within governments has gained considerable traction in the last few years. Arguably, Open Data has been successful pa...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011

The father of taxonomies, part 1

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Classifications and taxonomies help you anticipate where to find a particular kind of information. Imagine yourself browsing a website or lo...
Friday, 25 February 2011

Social innovation and competition

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Both the US and the UK are experimenting with new ways of solving social problems that don't rely only on government, as described in t...
Thursday, 17 February 2011

What information should be open? #opengov #opendata Mississauga's secret plan to subsidize attendance at Hazel's birthday party

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Lately, Mississauga city politics have been almost as exciting as Toronto's. Seems there was a plan to "send councillors and senio...
Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Rob Ford, Open Data Activist?

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Open government is not a partisan issue. Rob Ford's mayoral victory was a clear signal that change is coming to municipal government. Fo...

open government (behind the firewall)?

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Hello world (again!) After a long hiatus, it is time to return to blogging in the wider world. Perhaps some context is in order: Around the...