Oldish(?) news: Canadian candidates for the OGP steering committee
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2 Canadians on the list of civil society candidates for the for the OGP Steering Committee. If you're interested, you can dig around more on that site for more info including CVs and letters of nomination (url below).
There's been no update since June 30th, 2014 - so maybe this is already decided and I'm not aware. I hope one (or more) of the Canadians make the cut, though. Chris Moore (former Chief Information Officer of the city of Edmonton) Toby Mendel (Centre for Law & Democracy) And Panthea Lee - applying for either Canada or Taiwan (it's unclear). Reboot http://www.ogphub.org/blog/here-are-the-37-candidates-for-the-ogp-steering-committee/ Michael Lenczner CEO, Ajah http://www.ajah.ca <a href="tel:514-708-5112" value="+15147085112" target="_blank">514-708-5112 _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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It is unfortunate that we do not have solid civil society representation. Toby Mendel is excellent, but represents the legal side of things only and to the best of my knowledge brings his organization's point of view forward but not that domain of civil society actors more broadly. Chris Moore is also great, but hardly represents civil society, private sector maybe, which was a big contingent at OGP EU Regional meetings in Dublin. We need someone or an organization that can parlay public policy, open data, open access, and ngos who are data users but not engaged in open data app development necessarily, but is savvy enough to navigate those waters. It would also be great to have someone who is considered a representative, someone civil society has nominated or who can stand behind, who has a national understanding of the issues but also sub-national and who may consult with key stakeholders and bring their concerns forward. t On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Pardon my ignorance but how do candidates actually become
candidates.
... ggt On 21/07/2014 5:29 AM, Tracey P.
Lauriault wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Any reason you say that Chris Moore represent private sector? 15 years as a municipal CIO means that he has extensive experience within municipal gov (an important stakeholder) but I agree that he isn't an ideal candidate to represent civil society. However, I'm glad that he is nominated - just based on what I know of his understanding of open gov and open data.
It's too bad that there aren't a few organizations that master the old-school access to data stuff (i.e. CCSD, SCPOs) as well as the new side of things (metadata, open data portals, developing lightweight standards, XML/APIs/etc.) We need a hybrid CCSD / Open North candidate.
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Gerry Tychon <[hidden email]> wrote:
Join the OGP Civil Society mailing list for all updates: https://dgroups.org/hivos/ogp The post was re-published on several other lists including CivicAccess on April 25 by Harvey Low. Nominations were open from April 25 to June 15. I believe all were self-nominations, based on the submissions. James
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Gerry; People nominate themselves and apply. Sorta like the Open Knowledge Foundation embassadors and the Open Data Institute folks.When he got to Brazil though, he was removed from the Canadian Panel by the Canadian Gov. who appointed someone else. In other words, he was awarded travel and accomodation, a booth, a place to present, and attendance to the socials and the meetings. It was confusing and lacked some process. Overall, in Canada, we do not really have civil society reps as other countries do, and our civil society here, on the technical side of the equation is strong, and the social entrepreneurship side, we do not really have a very engaged national civil society on this front. CIPPIC, Open North and the BC Association are the closests we have to some sort of national with a local twist, and then there are actors like the Canadian Council on Social Development, Ontatio Non Profit Network and the Social Planning Councils which are ramping up their knowledge as data users. There are of course some academic associations, and some professional associations, but they have not really picked up the ball on the open data and open gov files. Perhaps Katie Gibbs with Evidence for Democracy will eventuall ramp up some knowledge here to. Irrespective, we do fairly well overall in relative terms to other countries, due to the nature of our public administrations, governments, strong federalism, society and well educated and socially minded puplic. We have many active locals, and the CIOs/CTOs of provinces and territories have come on side ever so slowly. It would however be good, as we discored during the cancellation of the census, to have some sort of unifying political voice/convening group that could represent the public on these issues. We do have much work still to do. t On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Note that OGP has shortlisted 14 of the 37 candidates. http://www.freedominfo.org/2014/07/14-cso-candidates-selected-finalists-join-ogp-sc/
Toby Mendel is still in the running. James On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I don't commonly wade in but Gerry has explained 2012 OGP bang on! At Brasil, I did present but limited to one session and as part of audience, even though Tracey and I did a whole lot of consultations and work prior to with huge support and input from people like Gerry! I think it was my stance on the Federal Census changes going in, but that us only speculation. Clearly its often about politics and individuals (without mentioning names of course) rather than representing truly for civil society and the greater good. So now I spend most of my energies locally in Toronto on OPEN "GOVERNMENT" initiatives.
PS - Re Census, I was asked to present to the Parliamentary Hearing (Committee on Gov Ops and Estimates) on the Federal Data portal last April and did bring up the demise of census long form! The session did go well with excellent Ministerial conversations that day about the importance and relevance of government data!
Hey thanks Gerry for your insights!
Harvey Low, MCIP, RPP
Manager, Social Research & Analysis Unit,
Toronto Social Development Finance & Administration Division, City Hall, 14th Floor E.,
>>> James McKinney <[hidden email]> 25/07/2014 10:17 AM >>>Note that OGP has shortlisted 14 of the 37 candidates. http://www.freedominfo.org/2014/07/14-cso-candidates-selected-finalists-join-ogp-sc/ Toby Mendel is still in the running.
James
On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Harvey ...
Thanks for that input to the list. It helps to give more context to OGP activities. But, I suspect it was not myself you were referring to. Rather Tracey, James, and Michael whose collective knowledge is much appreciated. ... gerry On 25/07/2014 9:57 AM, Harvey Low
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I still have the list and it was wide and awesome! One good thing was the amount of input I humbly received across Canada and only too bad I as given only a few minutes. Tracey deserves special credit for starting that conservation and process. Such a civil voice needs to have its net cast wider.
Harvey Low, MCIP, RPP
Manager, Social Research & Analysis Unit,
Toronto Social Development Finance & Administration Division, City Hall, 14th Floor E.,
>>> Gerry Tychon <[hidden email]> 25/07/2014 12:06 PM >>>Harvey ... Thanks for that input to the list. It helps to give more context to OGP activities. But, I suspect it was not myself you were referring to. Rather Tracey, James, and Michael whose collective knowledge is much appreciated. ... gerry On 25/07/2014 9:57 AM, Harvey Low wrote:
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