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Mihai <>Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Subject: Civic Access
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[hidden email]Hello,
Your initiative is laudable and I was about to suggest this to the creator of http://howdtheyvote.ca, but I read he was involved in other projects and one of them was http://civicaccess.ca.
It is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data.
Good article about Open Data at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15629
"On the release of UK Government Spending data, Prime Minister David Cameron said:You're
going to have so much information about what we do, how much of your
money we spend doing it and what the outcome is. So use it. Exploit it.
Hold us to account. "
I wonder what is the status of such an initiative. Toronto has a new mayor who promised to reduce the spending. Perhaps you can approach him and convince to make the civic data freely available.
Cheers,
Mihai
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