On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Thanks all! I got some good responses and sent them to the City.
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> **************************
>> (via
http://data.vancouver.ca/index.htm)
>>
>> 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
>>
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
>
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
>