Posted by
Michael Lenczner on
May 18, 2006; 8:59am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Census-2006-statistics-tp583p616.html
i wonder if people understood michael's point that being upset about
the way that the government collects data has nothing to do with
CivicAcces's goal of getting access to data once it is collected. i
didn't even realize the distinction at first.
He's not saying that it's not important - just that is has nothing to
do directly with CivicAccess.
Russel is correct in saying that this is a more gosling appropriate.
Staying focused is going to be more difficult that I thought- not be
going into projects more appropriate for Gosling, Facil (quebec free
software umbrella group), digital/copyright canada, etc.
On 5/17/06, Michael Boyle <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tracey I totally agree with you. That's why I am disappointed that a)
> so much thrash is being wasted on whether or not the census form is
> accessible, thrash that has generated a lot of heat but not much
> light; and, b) the list doesn't seem to be concentrating on the
> issues that you have been posting about - that is, the civic access
> to data.
>
> I agree that there are important issues to deal with related to these
> subjects - I don't think that a critique of the census form online is
> relevant to this mission. And I certainly don't think that drawing
> any conclusions about "government online" based on one census form is
> even a little bit useful. Rather, it is a meaningless distraction
> from the work that you have been trying to do.
>
> MB
>
> On 17-May-06, at 12:20 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>
> > as many have pointed out we are trying to make social, economic,
> > political, environmental, health etc. data & information available
> > to Canadians.
>
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