Fwd: globe article on open data

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

I knew the private sector was going to benefit from the cancellation of the census!  Welcome to the outsourcing of our knowledge to a black box algorithm and to proprietary data and rgressive licences.

But hey, Clement is pretending to have an open government with an open data portal that does not contain the data we need, such as the small area tax filer data!

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From: Marcel Fortin <[hidden email]>
Date: Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: globe article on open data
To: [hidden email]

Online title: Fighting fires with data: How killing the long-form census hurt community planning

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/non-profits-benefiting-from-data-access/article18675290/
Print title: Non-profits benefiting from data access

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Marcel Fortin
Head, Map and Data Library
University of Toronto
@mapsgis

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Tracey P. Lauriault

http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/moving-to-ireland/

https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

http://datalibre.ca/

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