Wow, that was great…..is that where
spokesperson comes from???
This is the best book…???...stream?
that I’ve read in a long time.
What next?
Windsong
From:
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of liss jeffrey
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007
11:40 AM
To: civicaccess discuss
Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss]
front de liberation de codes postal
Yes i support this also, and will take the idea to our New Democracy Workshop
on Monday when we next meet ( netizen-news.ca
has details).
Our projects, including ecommons/agora ( ecommons.net
), and bydesign-elab.net include
technical experts and developers as well as community and policy experts and
producers. The many sister sites we have created are designed to be
constellation sites (meaning no one main body), orbiting under the eLab slogan
' we exist not to reinvent the wheel, but to connect the spokes.'
So you could say that we are all operating in a kind of parallel public
interest space :)
In line with our strategic approach, not reinventing wheels, and this civic
access idea, I can contact the existing Data Liberation Front, which has
members from Stats Can. I am sure they could offer some solid advice on how to
make this work.
We could each act in our respective areas of competence, and report into the
wiki and on our own sites.
Previously while helping David Mason with his project to make a Canadian they
work for you site ( the original is British), I arranged an
That project alas fell victim to David ( and Stefan's) time crunch, but
this idea would I am sure enjoy the same support from our various associates.
So we are on board with this idea and can help.
Liss Jeffrey, PhD
Diector, McLuhan global research network
On 2/9/07, Olivier
Charbonneau <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Civic Access !
I am sorry for not responding to these emails - many fires to take care of (and
many more to start). First off, I am not a lawyer and this is forwarded on the
list for discussion purposes only. Facts are not protected by copyright, UNLESS
there is some originality in the selection. An exhaustive list of facts CANNOT
BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. On the other hand, one could impose CONTRACTUAL
limitations to using data (unoriginal compilation of facts)... but not within
the copyright framework.
This being said, I can get the major library association to support this action
- in fact, I am working on a coalition of consumer/library/education
institutions, and I hope to be able to provide documentation in the next few
months... but in the interim, once a consensus is reached from your group,
please contact me directly (I can't read all the posts on the list - no time)
and we<ll discuss how we can get the library organisations on board.
Take care group - and congratulations for the awsome energy and work !
Olivier
PS. here is what I am working on these days:
http://www.booknetcanada.com/events/index.html
(look at the panel at 4:15 on March 21st)
Many thanks! Merci et au plaisir!
Olivier Charbonneau
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Hugh McGuire wrote:
of course it's a civicaccess action ;-) !
actually thinking about this... and this is how I envision
CivicAccess progressing... as a central place where the spokes of
many different projects all join with a shared belief in free data
access. but we really need the projects (some exist already, eg:
howdtheyvote.ca, openpolitics.ca, netizen-news.ca etc; some could be
new initiatives of/inspired by civicaccess ... or just related to the
mission).
h.
On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote: