Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on
Jul 15, 2006; 7:18pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/CitySondage-Montreal-meeting-results-tp696.html
Hi gang!
This city of Montreal has me so preoccupied with sensory input - sights, sounds, smells,
textures and heat that i have not had the chance to send you a brief about Monday night's
CivicAccess meeting. Lucky! Today is a rainy Saturday afternoon at an Ile sans Fil
hotspot - Romolo - & I can now take a minute to send you some news! Alas! the paper with
my notes is with coco the cat! So i will share only the global view of a planned activity.
Bref -
A National city/county/municipality CivicAccess activity was proposed - and well
- dang it - it's a pretty good idea!
*CitySondage*
The objective:
Understand & communicate the availability & accessibility of civic data in useable formats
at the municipal/city/county scale across the country and effectively communicate
their/our degree of data civicness.
The Aim:
Collaboratively create a simple, intuitive & esthetically pleasing civic data
accessibility map of Canada's cities/municipalities/counties etc. and
communicate results to Canadians
General activities:
1. Contact a minimum of 15 city/municipal/county offices across the country
2. Request a series of data sets within a set of predetermined themes (e.g. environment,
council votes, boundary files, etc.).
3. Assess, based on a set of criteria, how accessible these data are.
4. Map accessibility results
5. Use the map to inform dialogue on the topic of data civicness in Canada
Conclusion
The activity is an easy short-term collective project for civicaccess.ca that yields an
artifact, which readily, easily and tangibly communicates the complex topic of civic data
accessibility in Canada to Canadians.
Hope you like it!
A small assignment follows this email, a wiki page was created for this activity -
http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/CitySondage, and when i get home i will post the outline for a
work plan & full meeting details.
ciao
tracey
PS-If you are new to montreal and need critically important data about the city - i highly
recommend this book -
http://dosemagazine.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/buy-my-book-please/