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14 Jan 11

Top Stories of the Week – January 7-14, 2011

These are the stories from the past week that have interested me the most. Technology and the Web Canada Passes Anti-Spam and Anti-Spyware Law http://www.barrysookman.com/2011/01/06/canada-passes-anti-spam-and-anti-spyware-law/ Federal Government to appeal website accessibility decision http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2011/01/11/blind-woman-court-challenge.html Canada’s Secret Open Data Strategy http://eaves.ca/2011/01/11/canadas-secret-open-data-strategy/ Myspace cuts nearly half of its staff http://bit.ly/hwxi4Z Microsoft Delivers ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, IIS Express [...]

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7 Jan 11

City of Toronto Releases Council’s Attendance and Voting Records in Open Format

I was just discussing this week with a few colleagues my general disappointment in “low-value” datasets that our local government in Ottawa have been releasing as part of their open data catalogue.  It contains, for the most part, static datasets.  (Some of the transportation data that is now coming out is a welcome addition.) I [...]

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7 Oct 10

City of Ottawa to Release Election Results as Open Data

The City of Ottawa has announced that election results will be provided in an open format through their Open Data Catalogue on voting day, October 25th, 2010. The results will be made available starting at just after 8pm, when the polls close, and will be updated every 10 minutes. This is great news for advocates [...]

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11 Aug 10

Open Data Is Not Web 2.0

A colleague of mine tweeted today that “There are 3 types of Web 2.0 in Government: Social Media, Collaborative Tools & Open Data”.  I’m not sure if I agree with him. Since my thoughts are longer than 140 characters, so I’ll blog about it instead. The Wikipedia definition of Web 2.0, which I think is [...]

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12 May 10

Ottawa Supports Open Data

The open data community in Ottawa has a reason to celebrate this morning.  Ottawa City Council has given the green light to the release of municipal datasets in open formats, with the launch of their data catalogue, officially still in beta at www.ottawa.ca/opendata. The terms of use for these datasets is for “world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive [...]

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