Posted by
Hugh McGuire on
Mar 28, 2006; 5:17pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Splash-screen-tp405p415.html
Here is my proposal for the intro text - might as well be on the front
page (?), but it's modified from the "about" on the wiki. For the
landing page, it would need more info. for consideration:
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Accès Civique/Civic Access (ACCA) believes that government-collected
civic data should be free for citizens to use, and available in open
formats.
Our Objectives:
1. to encourage governments to make civic data free and available in
open formats
2. to encourage development of citizen projects using civic data
Making civic data freely available to citizens is important because:
*citizen participation in decision-making is fundamental to democracy
*the best decisions are made by informed citizens
*access to civic data is fundamental to keeping citizens informed
*civic data is gathered on behalf of citizens; it should be freely
available for them to use in constructive ways
*citizen projects using civic data will generate innovative solutions to
problems
*this is what a democracy looks like!
The role of this wiki is to complement [WWW] civicaccess-discuss to
create a community of people across Canada who share these beliefs.
Stephane Guidoin wrote:
> I agree with both remarks :
>
> - The sentenses on the splash screen could be more precise about our goal.
>
> - The more it goes, the more we use CivicAccess instead of COACID. COACID gives
> a clearer definition but usually people don't really notice the signification
> of words in such names/acronyms. So we may simply remove COACID and remain with
> CivicAccess. Is it necessary to keep an acronym like CAAC ? I don't think. We
> could just use CivicAccess + the little motto Hugh sent "It's our data. Let us
> use it." (for example)
>
> Stef
>
>
> Selon Hugh McGuire <
[hidden email]>:
>
>
>>another suggestion:
>>why not change the name of the organization from:
>>*Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data (COACID)/
>>Citoyen-ne-s pour l'Accès Libre à l'Information et aux Données Civiques
>>(CALIDC)
>>
>>to:
>>*Civic Access/Accès citoyen (CAAC)
>>
>
>
>
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