good idea.
part of this comes from my ignorance as a citizen... it seems every
what is or is not available, free, good format etc.
areas: health, environment, natural resources, etc)... and then send
letters to the responsible agencies, and publish the responses.
is doing.
their availability to citizens.
hugh.
On Jun 28, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> I like this idea!
>
> However access to data is huge, perhaps we could focus on a few key
> data
> sets we would like access to and focus on those? Statistics Canada
> Data
> and Electoral boundaries and postal codes come to mind. Any others?
>
> With focus we could find others who have worked on those issues and
> build on what they have done and go from there!
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> Hugh McGuire wrote:
>> we discussed this previously, and i can't remember where we got ...
>> but here is an idea:
>>
>> a simple, straight-forward form letter to government agencies,
>> requesting info on:
>> 1. whether their data is available to the public
>> 2. what the costs are
>> 3. what the license is
>> 4. what the format is
>>
>> then a simple statement: "we believe all levels of Canadian
>> governments should make civic information and data accessible at no
>> cost in open formats to their citizens."
>>
>> then send this to all relevant agencies (we would need to make a
>> list), and cc to the relevant minister (also in the list).
>>
>> i have done this in a very ad-hoc manner, by email on various issues,
>> but have not really recorded or processed the responses...and
>> actually
>> there are a number of agencies who DO give data away in nice formats
>> for free - and these are important in our efforts to convince other
>> government groups.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Gabe Sawhney wrote:
>>
>>> For the record, I've transferred all the pages from the civicaccess
>>> wiki to a new wiki at civicaccess.pwd.ca... hopefully this will
>>> eliminate the spam issue. The full switchover will happen as
>>> soon as
>>> we can ensure that the mailing list will survive the domain
>>> transition safely.
>>>
>>> Feel free to begin adding/modifying pages on
>>>
http://civicaccess.pwd.ca -- these will be preserved when the domain
>>> change happens. *Don't* make any changes to the "old" wiki at
>>>
http://civicaccess.ca for the moment, because any new changes will
>>> not be reflected on the new wiki.
>>>
>>> The new wiki software is DokuWiki -- the formatting is a little
>>> different than MoinMoin, and I apologize that there's a bit of a
>>> learning curve. DokuWiki is a great, light-weight wiki which I use
>>> for several projects, and with which I haven't (yet?) had a problem
>>> with spam. If ever anyone does see spam on the new wiki, please let
>>> me know so that it can be dealt with before it becomes a problem.
>>>
>>> Gabe
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/26/07, *Hugh McGuire* <
[hidden email]
>>> <mailto:
[hidden email]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Mike Lenczner suggests that it's not clear whether datalibre.ca
>>> <
http://datalibre.ca> is
>>> *my* project or a group project.
>>>
>>> datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca> came about because it seemed
>>> that people did not wish to
>>> have blog.civicaccess.ca <
http://blog.civicaccess.ca>, but
>>> rather
>>> something parallel, but open to
>>> anyone who wishes to participate. the first idea was to just
>>> have a
>>> place to put discussions/info from this list out in the public,
>>> as it
>>> seems a shame to have it all stuck behind the walls of this
>>> discussion group.
>>>
>>> anyway, datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca> is meant to be a
>>> place
>>> to put that info to the
>>> public ... and whatever else people wish to do with it.
>>>
>>> In any case, I do hope others interested in this data will
>>> consider
>>> posting at datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca>. Let me know if
>>> you
>>> are interested, and I'll
>>> give you a login and add you to the about page etc.
>>>
>>> And for the record, whatever happens on there is up to those
>>> who wish
>>> to participate.
>>>
>>> so please let me know if you do have interest in contributing,
>>> however you might want to do so. As mentioned, I wanted to
>>> catch and
>>> post some info pages with stuff from civicaccess.ca
>>> <
http://civicaccess.ca>, but most of the
>>> good stuff seems to be gone now.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Hugh.
>>>
>>>
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