Community Open Data OGP Submission

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Here is the submission that was made today.

http://datalibre.ca/2012/02/06/submitted-ogp-letter/

Cheers
t

--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805

"Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the
future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".

Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
(http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)

[Michael Lenczner-2]

Hi Tracey,

Sorry to trouble you but could you make the application available in a
more web-friendly manner? I can't figure out how to download a copy of
it. Even a PDF would work better (depending on permissions) than how
it's currently available. And as html is always good. I understand
that it won't be as readable, but I'll figure that out.

Whenever you find the time. Thanks.

Cheers,

Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.c
514-400-4500
1-888-406-2524 (AJAH)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellenczner



On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Here is the submission that was made today.
>
> http://datalibre.ca/2012/02/06/submitted-ogp-letter/
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
>
> "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the
> future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
>
> Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
> (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)
> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

All;

 

Here it is just pasted into the email.  If you would like a word copy by all means just drop me a line.  I am a bit pressed with some lurking deadlines and will not be able to take the time to make it all fancy in datalibre.ca for the moment.

 

Cheers

t

******************************

 

Peggy Taillon

President and CEO

Canadian Council on Social Development

Community Data Program

P.O. Box 13713

Kanata, ON K2K 1X6

Canada

+1-613.236.8977 Ext. 1

[hidden email]

Website: www.ccsd.ca

Date: February 6, 2012

Community Data Program

Civil Society Participation

April 2012 OGP Annual Meeting

Cover Letter

Dear Open Government Partnership;

The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) would like to advance Harvey Low, its Toronto Consortium Lead for the Community Data Program (CDP) and a founding and active member of Community Data Canada (CDC), as the civil society representative for Canada at the Open Government Partnership Annual Meetings in Brazil.  Harvey has been actively engaged in the open government field as an experienced leader in Canadian municipal and non-profit sectors for over two decades.  He has been instrumental at strengthening the social, environmental and planning capacity of civil society organizations to be actively engaged participants in evidence based planning in the City or Toronto and nationally with the CDP, CDC and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM). 

Harvey, as an open government and data access and use advocate would be an excellent contributor in the OGP thematic discussions and would provide valuable input from multiple sectors (e.g., health, social, cultural, urban planning, and environment) into OGP’s overall strategic vision for the future.  Furthermore, as a recognized leader in this area, he is able and committed to bringing the outcomes of those discussions back to Canada and infuse them into the operations of civil society organizations and public sector institutions across many sectors.  He will also solicit input from organizations in Canada on what they would like to have said in Brazil. 

He has been active as a champion in the development and evolution of Toronto’s open data initiatives, brokered numerous local data sharing agreements, and presented on the topic in the community and nationally.  Harvey is currently a key representative on the City of Toronto’s new Open Government Committee – an internal committee established to promote transparency, accountability and accessibility of good governance.  He has also served on numerous city and inter-governmental Task Forces, as a key researcher developing approaches and translating data into effective program and service interventions.

To date open government discussions have not included perspectives from grass roots and thematic public sector data and information users, producers, and those actively involved in deliberating with government.  The discussion to date has primarily been within CIO and IT sectors.  Harvey with his experience at facilitating collaborative access to, the sharing and visualization of government and private sector data to facilitate collective research to inform public policy, would be an asset and could infuse the discussions with a new and unique perspective from a well-established open government and open data community of practice.

The Community Data Program & Community Data Canada

The Community Data Program (CDP) is a flagship program of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) developed in the mid-1990s as a gateway for municipalities and community sector organizations to access public data and other private and non-profit sector data providers to monitor and report on social and economic development trends within their communities.  The CDP is a national network of 21 community data consortia present in most big Canadian cities.  Members include more than 50 municipalities and 1000+ users, including local police, social planning councils, health and family service agencies, school boards, United Ways and other organizations working in the fields of public policy.

The three core purposes to the CDP are to: purchase, facilitate and negotiate access to public data, exchange knowledge and train organizations to analyze community data and use it for better decision making and to communicate and disseminate the results as widely as possible.  The Toronto Consortium, under Harvey’s leadership includes 27 civil society organizations in areas of public health, social services, urban planning, and philanthropy to name a few.  The 150 individual members of the Toronto consortium are statisticians, demographers, researchers, planners, public officials and thematic data experts who meet in person and on-line on an ongoing basis to share best practices, expertise, build products and use those products to inform public policy on a number of issues.

For example, data from the CDP are now being used as a resource for doctors to better understand the communities in which their clients reside; as the basis to create sophisticated place-based neighbourhood monitoring tools for local decision-makers; and as an information resource by the private sector in the development of new innovative mapping tools to name a few.  More examples of how government and other sectors have been engaged in open dialogue on a number public policy issues can be found on the CDP website. 

The CDP recognizes that not all data users and information product producers are engineers and new media experts and has for close to three decades been engaged in bridging technology, media and data expertise while also building grassroots capacity to access and use data and government information in new innovative ways.  It has created a new systematic way of accessing and analysing information across sectors in order to better understand urban issues from multiple perspectives.  For 25 years the CDP has actively been engaged in open government and advocating for more data and information sharing, but also in helping government be more open and transparent regarding public policy decision making.

The CCSD is a registered not for profit and charitable organization that has for more than 90 years been a key proponent of “unconventional” policies and programs that Canadians now consider essential: Old Age Pension program, Unemployment Insurance, the National Child Benefit and tax credits for the working poor to name a few of the programs that represent the core values of Canadians.  Also, the CCSD with the CDP and ethno cultural visible minority organizations in Canada has led the charge on the issue of the cancellation of the Canadian Census creating a coalition of close to 500 data using and producing agencies (http://datalibre.ca/census-watch/) and is the key applicant to a Federal Court challenge entitled the Equal Right to Be Counted advocating for the reinstatement of a set of identity based questions into the official census.

Furthermore, the CCSD established the Community Data Canada (CDC) which is the first working group comprised of key federal, provincial, municipal and civil society organizations as a permanent collaborative forum in support of improved access to and use of small area data for decision making.  To date CCSD with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), three multi-sector roundtables have been convened with more than 100 pan Canadian multi-sector members on issues pertaining to open government; evidence based decision-making capacity building and public participation deliberations on public policy. 

Member of the CCSD have also been invited to speak at Federal House of Commons Committees on issues pertaining to the census, open government and open data, have submitted reports to the two recent open government consultations, the latest will be used to inform the OGP meetings in Brazil, and had the highest number of public votes in two submissions to the previous Industry Canada Digital Economy Consultations.  They have also participated in consultations regarding the archiving and preservation of scientific data and research data. They have been invited to speak at Open Access Week events, the Canadian Library Association, and a number of open government conferences organized by legal IT and open source communities on issues pertaining to open government and open data, and have advised Canadian Open Data cities on topics of licensing, the development of common practices and app contest judging.

It is the view of the CDP; open data should also encompass the philosophies of Open Government and Open Analysis.  In other words, OD should not only be about "free and open data", but also about a cultural shift among public, non-government and the private sector, to provide and work (where opportunities arise) collaboratively to understand how such data can be transformed into knowledge and processes to better inform social and economic issues.  The CDP and CDC have opened government channels to be more receptive to not only sharing but also collaborating and partnering with new sectors on a variety of public policy issues.  As such, it is hoped that representation internationally in the dialogue of open government can include different perspectives beyond only data, IT and new media perspective. 

Philosophies & Approaches towards Open Government 

The benefits of open data and open government for the development/hacker and new media community were the first and obvious ones.  However, the benefits to community development, citizen engagement in the broader goals of social inclusion, economic development, and urban, environmental planning and hard infrastructural planning have been less evident and less discussed.  It is one thing to improve access to bus schedules and quite another to have open and engaged discussions on issues related to the delivery and access to transit.  It is this aspect the CDP brings to open government discussions, its experience in working on real public policy issues in an ongoing and sustainable way using public data and working with citizens to deliberate in transit, social and environmental committees to name a few.  The rapprochement between government and citizen has been the main focus of the CDP and the CDC.  This work has been national in scope but grounded in informed decision making and public policy deliberations locally. 

Harvey Low has been a participant, partner, and leader at Canadian scale with the CCSD, CDP, CDC and the FCM and locally at the City of Toronto by negotiating data use and access agreements, building civil society and community capacity to engage in government deliberations with the use of public data and at facilitating collaboration among divergent multi-sector interests in these areas.  Toronto Wellbeing is a new on-line neighbourhood monitoring tool (www.toronto.ca/wellbeing), and an example of the kind of community of practice user centered apps Harvey has been instrumental at creating.  Launched with much media attention in July 2011, it answered the call of civil society groups for access to public data and information in a format they can understand and use.  This product integrates data from almost every sector within local government, Federal data, and key community partners such as hospitals.    Wellbeing Toronto is but one of the many open data, government and access products Harvey has inspired.  Toronto Wellbeing is used by civil society organizations to inform community and government deliberations on any number of issues.  Also, Harvey has the diplomatic, technical, social and cultural expertise, the respect and support of his peers and the actors he actively works with on an ongoing basis to advance and implement OGP plans, priorities and strategies in over 100 organizations across Canada while also being able to represent the wants, needs and issues of civil society organizations on this file in Brazil.  Please see Harvey’s CV for more information.

The OGP Conference – Contributions, Learnings and Next Steps:

Attending this conference will yield mutual opportunities for advancement of the Open Government philosophy. First, we are willing to share our expertise and practices with the OGP partners. We can offer a workshop or side event to share our work. Examples can include presentations and demonstrations on some of the innovative approaches and applications that have been developed in Canada through the CDP, and other examples in government and the community.  Secondly, we seek to learn from the best-practices of other representatives, particularly in the areas of civic engagement and partnership opportunities with non-government stakeholders and the private sector. Lastly, the learnings from the conference will be brought home to explore the opportunities for more outreach and inclusive approaches. For example

The CCSD and the CDP will undertake a campaign to educate its members and partners in the culture of open government as expressed by the OGP.  The CCSD and CDP have been doing this work, but framed in the discourse of community planning.  In addition, the CDP will expand its ongoing marketing of the data consortium, training of new users, and new opportunities to integrate such data into the policy and community planning realm and will add the issues and priorities coming from the OGP in Brazil.  In Canada, the open data and open government community and the CCSD and CDP community are very different but can mutually benefit each other and it is hoped that participation at the OGP in Brazil will build a bridge and foster new and meaningful collaborations.  This will be a cultural shift for both.

Website of organizations mentioned in the letter:

·         Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD): http://www.ccsd.ca/

·         Community Data Program (CDP): http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/home

·         Toronto CDP Consortium: http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/TorontoConsortium

·         Community Data Canada (CDC): http://www.cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php?lang=en

·         Wellbeing Toronto: http://map.toronto.ca/wellbeing

·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Quality of Life Reporting System: http://www.fcm.ca/home/programs/quality-of-life-reporting-system/member-communities.htm

CCSD and CDP Transparent governance structure:

The CCSD is a registered not for profit and charitable organization.  Its Board of Directors is listed on its website, it holds AGMs with its members, convenes quarterly board meetings and numerous ad hoc meetings with the Board, committees and working groups as required.  These are all public.  Policy initiatives, projects and programs are fully published on its website along with a full list of its friends and partners.

The Community Data Program (CDP) is a national consortium of local data user networks that provides a gateway through which municipalities and community based organizations access social data.  A detailed description of the program is available here (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/node/7566 ).  The CDP is led by an Advisory Committee of its members and users (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/Steering-Pilotage) which reports to the CCSD board on an ongoing basis.  The CDP is also directed by the following four working groups: Data Purchase & Access; Capacity Building and Infrastructure WG; Sharing Information WG and Build and Foster Partnerships WG; which are comprised by members who have the desire and expertise to fulfill the terms of references of these WGs (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/MembersList). 

Local data user networks (i.e. consortia) each have their own terms of reference and ways to self-organize however each has a lead who attends quarterly teleconference meetings and one yearly face to face meeting while working groups meet as required.  Also, regional consortia hold local meetings and capacity building workshops.  The Advisory Committee and consortia list their members, contact information, terms of reference, and accomplishments on their own pages along with minutes and project notes and decisions.  Finally, members are considered users, and all members are consulted on issues related to changes to the website, for usability testing and are surveyed during each consortia cycle to assess data use and capacity building priorities, the last survey and its results are available here (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/PurchaseAccessAchatAccess).

Annual Audited Financial Statements:

All financial statements and external audits are published on the CCSD website (http://www.ccsd.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=223&lang=en).

The CCSD is a membership funded organization and receives program and project specific grants from government, foundations and other philanthropic organizations.  The Community Data Program is funded by consortia members and an explanation of how the fees are negotiated is available here (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/ConsortiaWG).

The Consortia also receives in-kind contributions from its members and leads and committee members contribute their time and expertise in-kind.

Publish operational budget:

The CCSD operational budget is included in its financial audits.  Budgets for the CDP are discussed among leads and the Advisory committee and are published here (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/ConsortiaWG).

Publish annual narrative and financial reports:

See above.

Funding Requirements:

All travel, room and board. The CCSD is a not-for-Profit registered Charity organization.

A CV/resume:

Attached

Endorsements:

Solicitation for endorsements was done by invitation to a select number of members, supporters and partners.  The CDP is not a social media based organization; CDP is a member based organization of relationships and project based activities, members meet online, in teleconferences, at round-tables and at face to face meetings.  The letter was drafted among members of the CDP and input was provided by a number of groups and members:

·         21 jurisdictional leaders of the Community Data Program of the Canadian Council on Social Development listed here, any of them can be contacted and the contacts are listed here: http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/MembersList

 

·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Michael Buda, Director, Policy and Research, 24, rue Clarence Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5P3, [phone], [hidden email], www.fcm.ca ,

The FCM founded in 1901 is the first national meeting of Canadian municipal leaders and its first political initiative was to convince the federal government to create legislation that would give communities more control over the actions of utility companies within their boundaries.  The FCM today include 2000 of Canada's largest cities as well as small urban and rural communities, and 21 provincial and territorial municipal associations.  The FCM actively advocates to have the needs of municipalities - and their citizens - reflected in federal policies and programs and ongoing programs are: Quality of Life Reporting System, Green Municipal Fund, Community Infrastructure partnership Program, Women in Local Government, Affordable Housing, Partners in Climate Protection, and a number of international programs.

·         Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), David Fewer, Director, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, 57 Louis Pasteur St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5. [phone] ext.2558, [hidden email], http://www.cippic.ca/

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) was established at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in the fall of 2003. It is the first legal clinic of its kind in Canada.  CIPPICs dual mission is: to fill voids in public policy debates on technology law issues, ensure balance in policy and law-making processes, and provide legal assistance to under-represented organizations and individuals on matters involving the intersection of law and technology; and to provide a high quality and rewarding clinical legal education experience to students of law.  CIPPIC ongoing projects are: Copyright, Privacy, Telecom Policy, Lawful Access, Open Licensing, Identity Theft and Consumer Protection.

·         Woodgreen Community Services, Diane Dyson, Director of Research & Public Policy, 815 Danforth Avenue, Suite 100
Toronto, Ontario, M4J 1L2,  416-645-6000 x 1100, [hidden email], http://www.woodgreen.org/

Woodgreen was founded in 1937 and has grown to 25 locations throughout Toronto’s East End.  It has a staff of 500, hundreds of partner organizations and thousands of volunteers and serves more than 37,000 individuals and families each year.  WoodGreen is a community-based agency in Toronto that provides opportunities for thousands of Torontonians.  They help people find safe, affordable housing, and assist internationally-trained professionals enter the job market. They provide parents access childcare, children and youth access after-school programs; help newcomers settle in to Canadian life, assist homeless and marginalized people get off the streets, help youth find meaningful employment and training, seniors live independently, and much more.

·         Open North Inc., James McKinney, Executive Director, 1200 St-Alexandre, Suite 408, Montreal, QC H3B 3H5, 514-247-0223, [hidden email], http://opennorth.ca/

Open North is a Canadian non-partisan non-profit with open source principles. Its mission is to create web sites and services that citizens and government alike can use to engage one another, with the ambition to make democracy better in Canada. Open North promotes open dialogue by offering an online budget consultation platform to all Canadian municipalities, and by running a website which helps citizens track and interact with their local elected officials. It promotes open data through a free database of every electoral district and representative in Canada and through a variety of local websites.

·         Social Planning Toronto, Beth Wilson, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001, Toronto, ON M5B 1J3, [phone], [hidden email], http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/

Social Planning Toronto is a non-government organization committed to independent social planning at local and city-wide levels to improve the quality of life for all people in Toronto.  It is committed to diversity, social and economic justice, and active civic participation in all aspects of community life, through program priorities in the areas of Policy Research and Analysis, Community Capacity Building, Community Education and Advocacy, and Social Reporting.

·         Center For Community Informatics Research, Development & Training (CIRDT) and Journal of Community Informatics, Michael Gurstein, Executive Director, and Editor in Chief of the open access, [hidden email], http://www.communityinformatics.net/index.htm, and http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej

The Center undertakes research, development and training in support of the range of Community Informatics initiatives undertaken both in Canada, South Africa and elsewhere internationally.  The Center works with communities, ICT practitioners, researchers, governments and agencies as a resource for enabling and empowering communities with Information and Communications Technologies. 

·         eGovFutures Group Open by Design, Jury Konga, Principal, [phone], C. [phone], [hidden email], www.slideshare.net/jurykonga, www.slideshare.net/jkonga

The eGovFutures Group is a private sector consulting group and its principal Chairs the Gov 2.0 Committee of the Municipal Information Systems Association of Ontario (MISA), and is the creator and administrator at MuniGov.CA and has informed the strategic plans of city and civil society open government and open data initiatives.

·         Datalibre.ca co-Authors and founding members of Civicaccess.ca, Tracey P. Lauriault and Hugh McGuire, of and , [hidden email]

The Civicaccess.ca list is the Canadian equivalent to the UK Open Knowledge Foundation Open Government list and it was founded in 2005 as a forum for individuals from all sectors to discuss open data and open government in Canada.  The Datalibre.ca blog was the first of its kind in Canada discussing issues of open data and open government it went online in 2005 and is co-authored with Hugh McGuire the founder of Librivox.ca.  It is also one of the key resources regarding the cancellation of the Canadian census, open data and open government.  Lauriault’s CV is available here (http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/cv-linear/).

·         City of Toronto Social Development Finance & Administration Division. Chris Brillinger, Executive Director, 100 Queen Street West 14E, Toronto, M5H-2N2, 416-392-8608. [hidden email].

The City of Toronto's Social Development, Finance & Administration Division provides leadership and support to the Deputy City Manager of the Citizen Centred Services “A” Cluster and City Council to:

o   develop and implement a social inclusion and community safety agenda for the city

o   foster safe and strong neighbourhoods and communities

o   promote community engagement

o   advance life skill opportunities for youth

·         shakethepillars.com, George Irish, [hidden email]

George Irish is an independent consultant advising non-profits and charities on using digital new media to engage the public for social change. He has worked with global NGOs including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Oxfam to further their use of open source technologies, such as Drupal, Plone and Wordpress for activism, fundraising and mobilization.

·         Geographic and Numeric Information Systems (GANIS), Ted Hildebrandt, Director of Social Planning; and founding member of the Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO), , [hidden email], http://ganis.spno.ca/, 905-632-1975; 

GANIS was formed in 1996 to build capacity and acquire applications to conduct community based research using government data for community based research organizations in Ontario.  Today, 14 Social Planning Councils in Ontario have in-house access to census data, elementary mapping capabilities, applications and the capacity to do geographic and statistical analysis.  GANIS researchers also pool their resources to conduct Ontario wide analysis and building the capacity of their local networks to do evidence-based decision making.

·         Environics Analytics, Doug Norris, Senior Vice President and Chief Demographer55 York Street, 10th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5H 1R7, [hidden email], 613-592-3402 http://www.environicsanalytics.ca

Environics Analytics is a leading Canadian geodemographics service, data and application developments consulting firm which also provides data and expertise for businesses, government, and non-government sectors.  They provide research, licensed data and systems, and develop custom business solutions.

·         Community Foundation of Canada, Cindy Lindsay, Director of Member Services, 519.843.6726, [hidden email], http://www.cfc-fcc.ca/home.cfm

The Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) is the national membership organization for Canada’s Community Foundations which is a Canadian movement for community vitality, represented by 180 members.  CFC was established in 1992 to connect and support this growing network of local foundations.  CFC’s mission is to build stronger communities by enhancing the philanthropic leadership of community foundations.  The CFC supports established and developing CFs in their endowment building and donor services, grant making and community leadership, and as accountable stewards of community assets.  The CFCs also produce Vital Signs which is a data intensive indicator system for communities (http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/faq-e.html) and the CFC supports fund organizations with their evidence based decision making endeavours.

·         OpenConcept Consulting Inc., Mike Gifford, President, http://openconcept.ca, [hidden email], @mgifford, 613-3278537, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

OpenConcept in business since 1999 has broad expertise using the Drupal toolkit in developing dynamic, database-driven websites for a wide variety of government programs and agencies, NGOs, trade unions, and socially progressive organizations in Canada and the USA.  OpenConcept also devotes a portion of its time and resources toward environmental, educational, and social justice issues and community values form an important base from which it manages its activities both as individuals and as a team.

·         The West End Urban Health Alliance (WEUHA), Terrie Russell, Executive Coordinator, Community Engagement Office, 416-949-2921, [hidden email]

The West End Urban Health Alliance (WEUHA) represents over 25 member organizations - hospitals, community health centres, long term care, social service, and palliative care agencies - that have been working in collaboration for over 20 years to identify needs and integrate the delivery of services and high quality care to residents of west Toronto.

·         Author of  ZoneCone.ca and founding member of CivicAccess.ca, Stéphane Guidoin, [hidden email]

ZoneCone is a grassroots initiative broadcasting road management open data (road closures, accidents, etc.) to help citizen avoid road congestions. The target is to demonstrate that Government Open Data can have a major impact on citizen decision making in order to solve social and economic issues.

·         TeleCommunities Canada, Gareth Shearman, President, [hidden email]

TeleCommunities Canada aims to ensure that all Canadians are able to participate in community-based communications and electronic information services by promoting and supporting local community network initiatives also represents and promotes the Canadian community networking movement at the national and international level.

 

Should you require any additional information please do not hesitate to communicate with me directly.

Sincerely

 

 

Peggy Taillon

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Tracey,

Sorry to trouble you but could you make the application available in a
more web-friendly manner? I can't figure out how to download a copy of
it. Even a PDF would work better (depending on permissions) than how
it's currently available. And as html is always good. I understand
that it won't be as readable, but I'll figure that out.

Whenever you find the time. Thanks.

Cheers,

Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.c
<a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]">514-400-4500
<a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]">1-888-406-2524 (AJAH)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellenczner

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Here is the submission that was made today.
>
> http://datalibre.ca/2012/02/06/submitted-ogp-letter/
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> <a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]">613-234-2805
>
> "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the
> future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
>
> Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
> (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)

> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss

--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
 
"Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
 
Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940, (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)

[Michael Lenczner-2]

That works great for me. It's easy to read, copy & paste and it has a
URL, so that's fine. Appreciate it!

Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.ca
514-400-4500
1-888-406-2524 (AJAH)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellenczner



On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> All;
>
> Here it is just pasted into the email.  If you would like a word copy by all
> means just drop me a line.  I am a bit pressed with some lurking deadlines
> and will not be able to take the time to make it all fancy in datalibre.ca
> for the moment.
>
> Cheers
> t
> ******************************
>
> Peggy Taillon
>
> President and CEO
>
> Canadian Council on Social Development
>
> Community Data Program
>
> P.O. Box 13713
>
> Kanata, ON K2K 1X6
>
> Canada
>
> +1-613.236.8977 Ext. 1
>
> [hidden email]
>
> Website: www.ccsd.ca
>
> Date: February 6, 2012
>
> Community Data Program
>
> Civil Society Participation
>
> April 2012 OGP Annual Meeting
>
> Cover Letter
>
> Dear Open Government Partnership;
>
> The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) would like to advance
> Harvey Low, its Toronto Consortium Lead for the Community Data Program (CDP)
> and a founding and active member of Community Data Canada (CDC), as the
> civil society representative for Canada at the Open Government Partnership
> Annual Meetings in Brazil.  Harvey has been actively engaged in the open
> government field as an experienced leader in Canadian municipal and
> non-profit sectors for over two decades.  He has been instrumental at
> strengthening the social, environmental and planning capacity of civil
> society organizations to be actively engaged participants in evidence based
> planning in the City or Toronto and nationally with the CDP, CDC and the
> Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).
>
> Harvey, as an open government and data access and use advocate would be an
> excellent contributor in the OGP thematic discussions and would provide
> valuable input from multiple sectors (e.g., health, social, cultural, urban
> planning, and environment) into OGP’s overall strategic vision for the
> future.  Furthermore, as a recognized leader in this area, he is able and
> committed to bringing the outcomes of those discussions back to Canada and
> infuse them into the operations of civil society organizations and public
> sector institutions across many sectors.  He will also solicit input from
> organizations in Canada on what they would like to have said in Brazil.
>
> He has been active as a champion in the development and evolution of
> Toronto’s open data initiatives, brokered numerous local data sharing
> agreements, and presented on the topic in the community and nationally.
>  Harvey is currently a key representative on the City of Toronto’s new Open
> Government Committee – an internal committee established to promote
> transparency, accountability and accessibility of good governance.  He has
> also served on numerous city and inter-governmental Task Forces, as a key
> researcher developing approaches and translating data into effective program
> and service interventions.
>
> To date open government discussions have not included perspectives from
> grass roots and thematic public sector data and information users,
> producers, and those actively involved in deliberating with government.  The
> discussion to date has primarily been within CIO and IT sectors.  Harvey
> with his experience at facilitating collaborative access to, the sharing and
> visualization of government and private sector data to facilitate collective
> research to inform public policy, would be an asset and could infuse the
> discussions with a new and unique perspective from a well-established open
> government and open data community of practice.
>
> The Community Data Program & Community Data Canada
>
> The Community Data Program (CDP) is a flagship program of the Canadian
> Council on Social Development (CCSD) developed in the mid-1990s as a gateway
> for municipalities and community sector organizations to access public data
> and other private and non-profit sector data providers to monitor and report
> on social and economic development trends within their communities.  The CDP
> is a national network of 21 community data consortia present in most big
> Canadian cities.  Members include more than 50 municipalities and 1000+
> users, including local police, social planning councils, health and family
> service agencies, school boards, United Ways and other organizations working
> in the fields of public policy.
>
> The three core purposes to the CDP are to: purchase, facilitate and
> negotiate access to public data, exchange knowledge and train organizations
> to analyze community data and use it for better decision making and to
> communicate and disseminate the results as widely as possible.  The Toronto
> Consortium, under Harvey’s leadership includes 27 civil society
> organizations in areas of public health, social services, urban planning,
> and philanthropy to name a few.  The 150 individual members of the Toronto
> consortium are statisticians, demographers, researchers, planners, public
> officials and thematic data experts who meet in person and on-line on an
> ongoing basis to share best practices, expertise, build products and use
> those products to inform public policy on a number of issues.
>
> For example, data from the CDP are now being used as a resource for doctors
> to better understand the communities in which their clients reside; as the
> basis to create sophisticated place-based neighbourhood monitoring tools for
> local decision-makers; and as an information resource by the private sector
> in the development of new innovative mapping tools to name a few.  More
> examples of how government and other sectors have been engaged in open
> dialogue on a number public policy issues can be found on the CDP website.
>
> The CDP recognizes that not all data users and information product producers
> are engineers and new media experts and has for close to three decades been
> engaged in bridging technology, media and data expertise while also building
> grassroots capacity to access and use data and government information in new
> innovative ways.  It has created a new systematic way of accessing and
> analysing information across sectors in order to better understand urban
> issues from multiple perspectives.  For 25 years the CDP has actively been
> engaged in open government and advocating for more data and information
> sharing, but also in helping government be more open and transparent
> regarding public policy decision making.
>
> The CCSD is a registered not for profit and charitable organization that has
> for more than 90 years been a key proponent of “unconventional” policies and
> programs that Canadians now consider essential: Old Age Pension program,
> Unemployment Insurance, the National Child Benefit and tax credits for the
> working poor to name a few of the programs that represent the core values of
> Canadians.  Also, the CCSD with the CDP and ethno cultural visible minority
> organizations in Canada has led the charge on the issue of the cancellation
> of the Canadian Census creating a coalition of close to 500 data using and
> producing agencies (http://datalibre.ca/census-watch/) and is the key
> applicant to a Federal Court challenge entitled the Equal Right to Be
> Counted advocating for the reinstatement of a set of identity based
> questions into the official census.
>
> Furthermore, the CCSD established the Community Data Canada (CDC) which is
> the first working group comprised of key federal, provincial, municipal and
> civil society organizations as a permanent collaborative forum in support of
> improved access to and use of small area data for decision making.  To date
> CCSD with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), three
> multi-sector roundtables have been convened with more than 100 pan Canadian
> multi-sector members on issues pertaining to open government; evidence based
> decision-making capacity building and public participation deliberations on
> public policy.
>
> Member of the CCSD have also been invited to speak at Federal House of
> Commons Committees on issues pertaining to the census, open government and
> open data, have submitted reports to the two recent open government
> consultations, the latest will be used to inform the OGP meetings in Brazil,
> and had the highest number of public votes in two submissions to the
> previous Industry Canada Digital Economy Consultations.  They have also
> participated in consultations regarding the archiving and preservation of
> scientific data and research data. They have been invited to speak at Open
> Access Week events, the Canadian Library Association, and a number of open
> government conferences organized by legal IT and open source communities on
> issues pertaining to open government and open data, and have advised
> Canadian Open Data cities on topics of licensing, the development of common
> practices and app contest judging.
>
> It is the view of the CDP; open data should also encompass the philosophies
> of Open Government and Open Analysis.  In other words, OD should not only be
> about "free and open data", but also about a cultural shift among public,
> non-government and the private sector, to provide and work (where
> opportunities arise) collaboratively to understand how such data can be
> transformed into knowledge and processes to better inform social and
> economic issues.  The CDP and CDC have opened government channels to be more
> receptive to not only sharing but also collaborating and partnering with new
> sectors on a variety of public policy issues.  As such, it is hoped that
> representation internationally in the dialogue of open government can
> include different perspectives beyond only data, IT and new media
> perspective.
>
> Philosophies & Approaches towards Open Government
>
> The benefits of open data and open government for the development/hacker and
> new media community were the first and obvious ones.  However, the benefits
> to community development, citizen engagement in the broader goals of social
> inclusion, economic development, and urban, environmental planning and hard
> infrastructural planning have been less evident and less discussed.  It is
> one thing to improve access to bus schedules and quite another to have open
> and engaged discussions on issues related to the delivery and access to
> transit.  It is this aspect the CDP brings to open government discussions,
> its experience in working on real public policy issues in an ongoing and
> sustainable way using public data and working with citizens to deliberate in
> transit, social and environmental committees to name a few.  The
> rapprochement between government and citizen has been the main focus of the
> CDP and the CDC.  This work has been national in scope but grounded in
> informed decision making and public policy deliberations locally.
>
> Harvey Low has been a participant, partner, and leader at Canadian scale
> with the CCSD, CDP, CDC and the FCM and locally at the City of Toronto by
> negotiating data use and access agreements, building civil society and
> community capacity to engage in government deliberations with the use of
> public data and at facilitating collaboration among divergent multi-sector
> interests in these areas.  Toronto Wellbeing is a new on-line neighbourhood
> monitoring tool (www.toronto.ca/wellbeing), and an example of the kind of
> community of practice user centered apps Harvey has been instrumental at
> creating.  Launched with much media attention in July 2011, it answered the
> call of civil society groups for access to public data and information in a
> format they can understand and use.  This product integrates data from
> almost every sector within local government, Federal data, and key community
> partners such as hospitals.    Wellbeing Toronto is but one of the many open
> data, government and access products Harvey has inspired.  Toronto Wellbeing
> is used by civil society organizations to inform community and government
> deliberations on any number of issues.  Also, Harvey has the diplomatic,
> technical, social and cultural expertise, the respect and support of his
> peers and the actors he actively works with on an ongoing basis to advance
> and implement OGP plans, priorities and strategies in over 100 organizations
> across Canada while also being able to represent the wants, needs and issues
> of civil society organizations on this file in Brazil.  Please see Harvey’s
> CV for more information.
>
> The OGP Conference – Contributions, Learnings and Next Steps:
>
> Attending this conference will yield mutual opportunities for advancement of
> the Open Government philosophy. First, we are willing to share our expertise
> and practices with the OGP partners. We can offer a workshop or side event
> to share our work. Examples can include presentations and demonstrations on
> some of the innovative approaches and applications that have been developed
> in Canada through the CDP, and other examples in government and the
> community.  Secondly, we seek to learn from the best-practices of other
> representatives, particularly in the areas of civic engagement and
> partnership opportunities with non-government stakeholders and the private
> sector. Lastly, the learnings from the conference will be brought home to
> explore the opportunities for more outreach and inclusive approaches. For
> example
>
> The CCSD and the CDP will undertake a campaign to educate its members and
> partners in the culture of open government as expressed by the OGP.  The
> CCSD and CDP have been doing this work, but framed in the discourse of
> community planning.  In addition, the CDP will expand its ongoing marketing
> of the data consortium, training of new users, and new opportunities to
> integrate such data into the policy and community planning realm and will
> add the issues and priorities coming from the OGP in Brazil.  In Canada, the
> open data and open government community and the CCSD and CDP community are
> very different but can mutually benefit each other and it is hoped that
> participation at the OGP in Brazil will build a bridge and foster new and
> meaningful collaborations.  This will be a cultural shift for both.
>
> Website of organizations mentioned in the letter:
>
> ·         Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD): http://www.ccsd.ca/
>
> ·         Community Data Program (CDP):
> http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/home
>
> ·         Toronto CDP Consortium:
> http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/TorontoConsortium
>
> ·         Community Data Canada (CDC):
> http://www.cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php?lang=en
>
> ·         Wellbeing Toronto: http://map.toronto.ca/wellbeing
>
> ·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Quality of Life
> Reporting System:
> http://www.fcm.ca/home/programs/quality-of-life-reporting-system/member-communities.htm
>
> CCSD and CDP Transparent governance structure:
>
> The CCSD is a registered not for profit and charitable organization.  Its
> Board of Directors is listed on its website, it holds AGMs with its members,
> convenes quarterly board meetings and numerous ad hoc meetings with the
> Board, committees and working groups as required.  These are all public.
> Policy initiatives, projects and programs are fully published on its website
> along with a full list of its friends and partners.
>
> The Community Data Program (CDP) is a national consortium of local data user
> networks that provides a gateway through which municipalities and community
> based organizations access social data.  A detailed description of the
> program is available here
> (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/node/7566 ).  The CDP is led
> by an Advisory Committee of its members and users
> (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/Steering-Pilotage) which
> reports to the CCSD board on an ongoing basis.  The CDP is also directed by
> the following four working groups: Data Purchase & Access; Capacity Building
> and Infrastructure WG; Sharing Information WG and Build and Foster
> Partnerships WG; which are comprised by members who have the desire and
> expertise to fulfill the terms of references of these WGs
> (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/MembersList).
>
> Local data user networks (i.e. consortia) each have their own terms of
> reference and ways to self-organize however each has a lead who attends
> quarterly teleconference meetings and one yearly face to face meeting while
> working groups meet as required.  Also, regional consortia hold local
> meetings and capacity building workshops.  The Advisory Committee and
> consortia list their members, contact information, terms of reference, and
> accomplishments on their own pages along with minutes and project notes and
> decisions.  Finally, members are considered users, and all members are
> consulted on issues related to changes to the website, for usability testing
> and are surveyed during each consortia cycle to assess data use and capacity
> building priorities, the last survey and its results are available here
> (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/PurchaseAccessAchatAccess).
>
> Annual Audited Financial Statements:
>
> All financial statements and external audits are published on the CCSD
> website
> (http://www.ccsd.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=223&lang=en).
>
> The CCSD is a membership funded organization and receives program and
> project specific grants from government, foundations and other philanthropic
> organizations.  The Community Data Program is funded by consortia members
> and an explanation of how the fees are negotiated is available here
> (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/ConsortiaWG).
>
> The Consortia also receives in-kind contributions from its members and leads
> and committee members contribute their time and expertise in-kind.
>
> Publish operational budget:
>
> The CCSD operational budget is included in its financial audits.  Budgets
> for the CDP are discussed among leads and the Advisory committee and are
> published here (http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/ConsortiaWG).
>
> Publish annual narrative and financial reports:
>
> See above.
>
> Funding Requirements:
>
> All travel, room and board. The CCSD is a not-for-Profit registered Charity
> organization.
>
> A CV/resume:
>
> Attached
>
> Endorsements:
>
> Solicitation for endorsements was done by invitation to a select number of
> members, supporters and partners.  The CDP is not a social media based
> organization; CDP is a member based organization of relationships and
> project based activities, members meet online, in teleconferences, at
> round-tables and at face to face meetings.  The letter was drafted among
> members of the CDP and input was provided by a number of groups and members:
>
> ·         21 jurisdictional leaders of the Community Data Program of the
> Canadian Council on Social Development listed here, any of them can be
> contacted and the contacts are listed here:
> http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/MembersList
>
>
>
> ·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Michael Buda,
> Director, Policy and Research, 24, rue Clarence Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N
> 5P3, [phone], [hidden email], www.fcm.ca ,
>
> The FCM founded in 1901 is the first national meeting of Canadian municipal
> leaders and its first political initiative was to convince the federal
> government to create legislation that would give communities more control
> over the actions of utility companies within their boundaries.  The FCM
> today include 2000 of Canada's largest cities as well as small urban and
> rural communities, and 21 provincial and territorial municipal
> associations.  The FCM actively advocates to have the needs of
> municipalities - and their citizens - reflected in federal policies and
> programs and ongoing programs are: Quality of Life Reporting System, Green
> Municipal Fund, Community Infrastructure partnership Program, Women in Local
> Government, Affordable Housing, Partners in Climate Protection, and a number
> of international programs.
>
> ·         Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest
> Clinic (CIPPIC), David Fewer, Director, University of Ottawa, Faculty of
> Law, 57 Louis Pasteur St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5. [phone]
> ext.2558, [hidden email], http://www.cippic.ca/
>
> The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) was
> established at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in the fall of 2003.
> It is the first legal clinic of its kind in Canada.  CIPPICs dual mission
> is: to fill voids in public policy debates on technology law issues, ensure
> balance in policy and law-making processes, and provide legal assistance to
> under-represented organizations and individuals on matters involving the
> intersection of law and technology; and to provide a high quality and
> rewarding clinical legal education experience to students of law.  CIPPIC
> ongoing projects are: Copyright, Privacy, Telecom Policy, Lawful Access,
> Open Licensing, Identity Theft and Consumer Protection.
>
> ·         Woodgreen Community Services, Diane Dyson, Director of Research &
> Public Policy, 815 Danforth Avenue, Suite 100
> Toronto, Ontario, M4J 1L2,  416-645-6000 x 1100, [hidden email],
> http://www.woodgreen.org/
>
> Woodgreen was founded in 1937 and has grown to 25 locations throughout
> Toronto’s East End.  It has a staff of 500, hundreds of partner
> organizations and thousands of volunteers and serves more than 37,000
> individuals and families each year.  WoodGreen is a community-based agency
> in Toronto that provides opportunities for thousands of Torontonians.  They
> help people find safe, affordable housing, and assist
> internationally-trained professionals enter the job market. They provide
> parents access childcare, children and youth access after-school programs;
> help newcomers settle in to Canadian life, assist homeless and marginalized
> people get off the streets, help youth find meaningful employment and
> training, seniors live independently, and much more.
>
> ·         Open North Inc., James McKinney, Executive Director, 1200
> St-Alexandre, Suite 408, Montreal, QC H3B 3H5, 514-247-0223,
> [hidden email], http://opennorth.ca/
>
> Open North is a Canadian non-partisan non-profit with open source
> principles. Its mission is to create web sites and services that citizens
> and government alike can use to engage one another, with the ambition to
> make democracy better in Canada. Open North promotes open dialogue by
> offering an online budget consultation platform to all Canadian
> municipalities, and by running a website which helps citizens track and
> interact with their local elected officials. It promotes open data through a
> free database of every electoral district and representative in Canada and
> through a variety of local websites.
>
> ·         Social Planning Toronto, Beth Wilson, Senior Researcher and Policy
> Analyst, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001, Toronto, ON M5B 1J3, [phone],
> [hidden email], http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/
>
> Social Planning Toronto is a non-government organization committed to
> independent social planning at local and city-wide levels to improve the
> quality of life for all people in Toronto.  It is committed to diversity,
> social and economic justice, and active civic participation in all aspects
> of community life, through program priorities in the areas of Policy
> Research and Analysis, Community Capacity Building, Community Education and
> Advocacy, and Social Reporting.
>
> ·         Center For Community Informatics Research, Development & Training
> (CIRDT) and Journal of Community Informatics, Michael Gurstein, Executive
> Director, and Editor in Chief of the open access, [hidden email],
> http://www.communityinformatics.net/index.htm, and
> http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej
>
> The Center undertakes research, development and training in support of the
> range of Community Informatics initiatives undertaken both in Canada, South
> Africa and elsewhere internationally.  The Center works with communities,
> ICT practitioners, researchers, governments and agencies as a resource for
> enabling and empowering communities with Information and Communications
> Technologies.
>
> ·         eGovFutures Group Open by Design, Jury Konga, Principal,
> [phone], C. [phone], [hidden email],
> www.slideshare.net/jurykonga, www.slideshare.net/jkonga
>
> The eGovFutures Group is a private sector consulting group and its principal
> Chairs the Gov 2.0 Committee of the Municipal Information Systems
> Association of Ontario (MISA), and is the creator and administrator at
> MuniGov.CA and has informed the strategic plans of city and civil society
> open government and open data initiatives.
>
> ·         Datalibre.ca co-Authors and founding members of Civicaccess.ca,
> Tracey P. Lauriault and Hugh McGuire, of and , [hidden email]
>
> The Civicaccess.ca list is the Canadian equivalent to the UK Open Knowledge
> Foundation Open Government list and it was founded in 2005 as a forum for
> individuals from all sectors to discuss open data and open government in
> Canada.  The Datalibre.ca blog was the first of its kind in Canada
> discussing issues of open data and open government it went online in 2005
> and is co-authored with Hugh McGuire the founder of Librivox.ca.  It is also
> one of the key resources regarding the cancellation of the Canadian census,
> open data and open government.  Lauriault’s CV is available here
> (http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/cv-linear/).
>
> ·         City of Toronto Social Development Finance & Administration
> Division. Chris Brillinger, Executive Director, 100 Queen Street West 14E,
> Toronto, M5H-2N2, 416-392-8608. [hidden email].
>
> The City of Toronto's Social Development, Finance & Administration Division
> provides leadership and support to the Deputy City Manager of the Citizen
> Centred Services “A” Cluster and City Council to:
>
> o   develop and implement a social inclusion and community safety agenda for
> the city
>
> o   foster safe and strong neighbourhoods and communities
>
> o   promote community engagement
>
> o   advance life skill opportunities for youth
>
> ·         shakethepillars.com, George Irish, [hidden email]
>
> George Irish is an independent consultant advising non-profits and charities
> on using digital new media to engage the public for social change. He has
> worked with global NGOs including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and
> Oxfam to further their use of open source technologies, such as Drupal,
> Plone and Wordpress for activism, fundraising and mobilization.
>
> ·         Geographic and Numeric Information Systems (GANIS), Ted
> Hildebrandt, Director of Social Planning; and founding member of the Social
> Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO), , [hidden email],
> http://ganis.spno.ca/, 905-632-1975;
>
> GANIS was formed in 1996 to build capacity and acquire applications to
> conduct community based research using government data for community based
> research organizations in Ontario.  Today, 14 Social Planning Councils in
> Ontario have in-house access to census data, elementary mapping
> capabilities, applications and the capacity to do geographic and statistical
> analysis.  GANIS researchers also pool their resources to conduct Ontario
> wide analysis and building the capacity of their local networks to do
> evidence-based decision making.
>
> ·         Environics Analytics, Doug Norris, Senior Vice President and Chief
> Demographer55 York Street, 10th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5H 1R7,
> [hidden email], 613-592-3402
> http://www.environicsanalytics.ca
>
> Environics Analytics is a leading Canadian geodemographics service, data and
> application developments consulting firm which also provides data and
> expertise for businesses, government, and non-government sectors.  They
> provide research, licensed data and systems, and develop custom business
> solutions.
>
> ·         Community Foundation of Canada, Cindy Lindsay, Director of Member
> Services, 519.843.6726, [hidden email], http://www.cfc-fcc.ca/home.cfm
>
> The Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) is the national membership
> organization for Canada’s Community Foundations which is a Canadian movement
> for community vitality, represented by 180 members.  CFC was established in
> 1992 to connect and support this growing network of local foundations.
> CFC’s mission is to build stronger communities by enhancing the
> philanthropic leadership of community foundations.  The CFC supports
> established and developing CFs in their endowment building and donor
> services, grant making and community leadership, and as accountable stewards
> of community assets.  The CFCs also produce Vital Signs which is a data
> intensive indicator system for communities
> (http://www.vitalsignscanada.ca/faq-e.html) and the CFC supports fund
> organizations with their evidence based decision making endeavours.
>
> ·         OpenConcept Consulting Inc., Mike Gifford, President,
> http://openconcept.ca, [hidden email], @mgifford, 613-3278537, Ottawa,
> Ontario, Canada.
>
> OpenConcept in business since 1999 has broad expertise using the Drupal
> toolkit in developing dynamic, database-driven websites for a wide variety
> of government programs and agencies, NGOs, trade unions, and socially
> progressive organizations in Canada and the USA.  OpenConcept also devotes a
> portion of its time and resources toward environmental, educational, and
> social justice issues and community values form an important base from which
> it manages its activities both as individuals and as a team.
>
> ·         The West End Urban Health Alliance (WEUHA), Terrie Russell,
> Executive Coordinator, Community Engagement Office, 416-949-2921,
> [hidden email]
>
> The West End Urban Health Alliance (WEUHA) represents over 25 member
> organizations - hospitals, community health centres, long term care, social
> service, and palliative care agencies - that have been working in
> collaboration for over 20 years to identify needs and integrate the delivery
> of services and high quality care to residents of west Toronto.
>
> ·         Author of  ZoneCone.ca and founding member of CivicAccess.ca,
> Stéphane Guidoin, [hidden email]
>
> ZoneCone is a grassroots initiative broadcasting road management open data
> (road closures, accidents, etc.) to help citizen avoid road congestions. The
> target is to demonstrate that Government Open Data can have a major impact
> on citizen decision making in order to solve social and economic issues.
>
> ·         TeleCommunities Canada, Gareth Shearman, President,
> [hidden email]
>
> TeleCommunities Canada aims to ensure that all Canadians are able to
> participate in community-based communications and electronic information
> services by promoting and supporting local community network initiatives
> also represents and promotes the Canadian community networking movement at
> the national and international level.
>
>
>
> Should you require any additional information please do not hesitate to
> communicate with me directly.
>
> Sincerely
>
>
>
>
>
> Peggy Taillon
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tracey,
>>
>> Sorry to trouble you but could you make the application available in a
>> more web-friendly manner? I can't figure out how to download a copy of
>> it. Even a PDF would work better (depending on permissions) than how
>> it's currently available. And as html is always good. I understand
>> that it won't be as readable, but I'll figure that out.
>>
>> Whenever you find the time. Thanks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael Lenczner
>> CEO, Ajah
>> http://www.ajah.c
>> 514-400-4500
>> 1-888-406-2524 (AJAH)
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellenczner
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>> > Here is the submission that was made today.
>> >
>> > http://datalibre.ca/2012/02/06/submitted-ogp-letter/
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > t
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tracey P. Lauriault
>> > 613-234-2805
>> >
>> > "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the
>> > future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
>> >
>> > Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
>> >
>> > (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
>> > [hidden email]
>> > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss
>
>
>
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
>
> "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the future,
> not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
>
> Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
> (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)