City ditched plan to run open-data competition for new traffic app Paid tens of thousands in sole-sourced deal to Toronto company instead

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault on Nov 27, 2013; 2:49am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/City-ditched-plan-to-run-open-data-competition-for-new-traffic-app-Paid-tens-of-thousands-in-sole-sod-tp6345.html

"And second, a contract with a company that has some permanence guarantees ongoing support. An amateur programmer who’s really good at programming could land a time-consuming job or move away or just lose interest. “And then what do we have? We have nothing,” Tierney said."

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/City+ditched+plan+open+data+competition+traffic/9215808/story.html

And what was wrong with 511.ca?

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Tracey P. Lauriault

http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/moving-to-ireland/

https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

http://datalibre.ca/

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