Re: Toronto Sun: Toronto’s data open but almost useless

Posted by Karl Dubost on Jul 07, 2011; 9:19pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Toronto-Sun-Toronto-s-data-open-but-almost-useless-tp3414p3430.html


Le 7 juil. 2011 à 14:05, James McKinney a écrit :
> debate that the Sun article did not describe clearly.

would it be worth to have a kind of open letter from the community here answering the newspaper, and maybe published by the newspaper on what open data means. Because I think we all basically agree on

* what are open data
* what are licenses for open data which promote reuse
* what are the formats. We discussed it already

The disagreement that some people might have are the mission of public services but it is basically orthogonal to open data. In the sense that data open or not, public services give information to citizens that help them take decisions.
Some cities do it better than others but it is quite unrelated to open data.

The interesting part of this discussion could then be. Are the resources used for publishing open data are not used for better analysis and communication to the public :) But here we do not know. Only the people in charge of the city, the City Union organization might know that. It is a different topic.

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Karl Dubost
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