Re: ibelieveinopen.ca: help with wording of online pledge
Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault on
Sep 15, 2008; 6:58pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/postal-code-riding-tp1211p1223.html
Interesting Jennifer. An important point in your wording. at the moment there is access but it is not easy nor free as in no cost free not as in freedome free and licensing is restrictive.
The institutional response for your statement at the moment is quite easy: We already do that!
Go check out the
civicaccess.ca site for ideas, we spent much time together as a group coming up with a list of items and issues. (
http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/whatiscivicdata, and here -
http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/).
while the wiki is looking a bit rough due to the many hacks the info remains good just not purdy!
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jennifer Bell
<[hidden email]> wrote:
By the end of the week, one thing you can concretely do to show support for access to government data is sign an online pledge at ibelieveinopen.ca, a VisibleGovernment.ca project which should be going online in the next few days. Based on the US site, change-congress.org, the site will track voters and MP candidates who support different aspects of government transparency.
I'm still looking for help for wording on the pledge for open access to government data, which is currently:
"I support free access to scientific, electoral, and survey data gathered by government institutions."
If this is an issue you care about, please take a few minutes to think whether this wording is appropriate, or what might be better.
Jennifer Bell
http://visiblegovernment.ca
--- On Sat, 9/13/08, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] postal code --> riding
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> Received: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 11:01 AM
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> > PS: Is anyone else annoyed we're *still* talking
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> > PS: Is anyone else annoyed we're *still* talking
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