Posted by
Stephane Guidoin on
May 18, 2006; 2:23pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Census-2006-statistics-tp583p618.html
Hi Jason,
The mandate is pretty clear (to me) :
"1. To encourage all levels of governments (county, municipal, provincial,
federal) to make civic data and information available to citizens without
restrictions, at no cost, and in useable open formats.
2. To encourage the development of citizen projects using civic data and
information"
We want to take care of the "output" of the gov data and not the input. For what
we saw until now, there's no other groups with such goal (in Canada).
(Obviously the input is also important but there are some other groups who work
in this domain. We can relay information/petition concerning the census website
incompatibilities, for example, but we can't afford spending time on this kind
of issue. Our goal is already large enough not to lose focus)
Stéphane
Selon Jason Loughead <
[hidden email]>:
> 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
> purely about access to data from the government? Aren't there already
> consumer and civil liberties groups working on this?
>
> Jason
>