Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Need-your-input-city-open-data-resolution-tp1853.html
A city close to me is thinking about adopting the City of Vancouver
resolution on open data. Do you see anything missing in this list?
Can it be improved?
At a glance I see interoperability missing. Anything else? Your
ideas and thoughts will be used as info for the city officials.
Cheers
t
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2. Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source
MOVED by Councillor Reimer
SECONDED by Councillor Meggs
WHEREAS the City of Vancouver is committed to bringing the
community into City Hall
by engaging citizens, and soliciting their ideas, input and
creative energy;
WHEREAS municipalities across Canada have an opportunity to
dramatically lower their
costs by collectively sharing and supporting software they use and create;
WHEREAS the total value of public data is maximized when
provided for free or where
necessary only a minimal cost of distribution;
WHEREAS when data is shared freely, citizens are enabled to use
and re-purpose it to
help create a more economically vibrant and environmentally
sustainable city;
WHEREAS Vancouver needs to look for opportunities for creating
economic activity and
partnership with the creative tech sector;
WHEREAS the adoption of open standards improves transparency,
access to city
information by citizens and businesses and improved coordination
and efficiencies
across municipal boundaries and with federal and provincial partners;
WHEREAS the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) is a
not-for-profit society
created as a partnership between local government, provincial
government and major
utility companies in British Columbia to share and integrate
spatial data to which 88%
of BC local governments are members but Vancouver is not;
WHEREAS digital innovation can enhance citizen communications,
support the brand of
the city as creative and innovative, improve service delivery,
support citizens to self-
organize and solve their own problems, and create a stronger
sense of civic
engagement, community, and pride;
WHEREAS the City of Vancouver has incredible resources of data
and information, and
has recently been recognized as the Best City Archive of the World.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Vancouver endorses the
principles of:
• Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will
freely share with
citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the
greatest amount of data
possible while respecting privacy and security concerns;
• Open Standards - the City of Vancouver will move as
quickly as possible to
adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents,
maps, and other formats
of media;
• Open Source Software - the City of Vancouver, when
replacing existing
software or considering new applications, will place
open source software on
an equal footing with commercial systems during
procurement cycles; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT in pursuit of open data the City of
Vancouver will:
• Identify immediate opportunities to distribute more of its data;
• Index, publish and syndicate its data to the internet
using prevailing open
standards, interfaces and formats;
• Develop appropriate agreements to share its data with
the Integrated Cadastral
Information Society (ICIS) and encourage the ICIS to in
turn share its data with
the public at large;
• Develop a plan to digitize and freely distribute
suitable archival data to the
public;
• Ensure that data supplied to the City by third parties
(developers, contractors,
consultants) are unlicensed, in a prevailing open
standard format, and not
copyrighted except if otherwise prevented by legal
considerations;
• License any software applications developed by the City
of Vancouver such that
they may be used by other municipalities, businesses,
and the public without
restriction.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED THAT the City Manager be tasked with
developing an action
plan for implementation of the above.
Referred
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault