http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Census-2006-statistics-tp583p617.html
Ok the founder of the groups should reflect the mandate in a more narrowly
focused mission if people are to join with the right goals in mind. This is
> 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 <
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> > 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.
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > Michael Boyle www.mikel.org
> >
> >
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