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2009/11/14 Tracey P. Lauriault <
> 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
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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
> *****
>
>
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
>
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