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
May 09, 2015
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.