Open Data Initiatives in Canada: One part of the Open Government Conversation

Open Data Initiatives in Canada: Part of the OpenGov Conversation Tracey P. Lauriault Open Access Week: Carleton University Carleton MacOdrum Library - Room 102 Thursday, October 21st, 12:00-1:00pm Ottawa

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
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.
http://resource.org/8_principles.html

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 Government The Community

City of Ottawa http://www.ottawa.ca/online _ services/opendata/index_en.html http://www.opendataottawa.ca/ The Government The Community http://traceyplauriault.ca/ 010/07/21/changecamp-ottawa-2010- open-data-terms-of-use-session/

Ville de Montr éal In Progress – Stay Tuned!! http://montrealouvert.net The Government The 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.

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Open Data Initiatives in Canada: One part of the Open Government Conversation

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