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.