Posted by
Russell McOrmond-2 on
Mar 02, 2006; 5:20pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Data-at-Work-Report-Card-on-Homelessness-FCM-QLI-and-CIEH-Maps-tp310p323.html
Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> /a) Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) - an
> electronic records management system built for, and in consultation
> with, community stakeholders. It is provided free of charge as a means
> to collect information about the population using shelters while
> assisting in daily operations such as booking-in and out clients, and
> reporting on shelter use
> (
http://www.homelessness.gc.ca/hifis/index_e.asp).
Please note the difference between free/gratis and free/libre here.
This is an unaccountable and non-transparent system which HIFIS has
refused to disclose any information on.
HRSDC denied request for source code under ATIP request...
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1035 I believe there are considerable privacy and other problems with this
system, but without the ability to analyze the underlying policy (IE:
the source code that automates the government policy) there is no way to
know for sure.
What is and is not accessible to various parties, whether it be
shelters, police, or various special interest groups, is entirely
unknown as the policy is unknown. I am very happy to hear from your
note that there are parts of the community that are contesting the tool,
and would love to get connected with some of them. Maybe they would
have better luck extracting the policy.
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