'mon Canada, Open Up!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

'mon Canada, Open Up!

http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/12/15/CmonCanada/

Compared to US and others, our government drags its feet on open data initiatives.

By Michael Geist, Today, TheTyee.ca

Earlier this year, I wrote about the budding momentum behind governments making their data more readily available to the public for re-use. Open data initiatives have generated dozens of commercial and non-commercial websites that add value to the government data.

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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