Archive for the ‘Government 2.0’ Category
Monday, March 15th, 2010
I keep telling my students not to over-commit themselves. It's a shame I don't take my own advice :-). Here's what I've currently got on the go:
Software Carpentry teaches basic software development skills to scientists and engineers. I have 80% of the funding I need to spend ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
If I want to request a book at the University of Toronto Library, all I have to do is log in to their web site, look up the book, and click "reserve". Unless the book is in someone's study carrel. In that case, I have to go to the library ...
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
The opening isn't promising---"more than 60 countries and international organizations have developed nearly 275 policy documents related with the use of Open Source in public sector"---but the presentation itself is worth a look.
Later: and then there's The Guardian's worldwide index of open government data sets.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Cool. Kudos to the MyTTC team for pulling this together.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The City of London is launching a data store with 200 datasets. Oh, to have time to play with this... *sigh*
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Steven Dale thinks we should build gondolas instead of digging tunnels. I know it's unlikely to ever happen, but wouldn't it be wonderful?
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
On the same day that the New York Times ran an article about open data and Government 2.0, the graduate and undergraduate students in this term's consulting course did their final presentations. On deck were:
Managing Twitter Conversations: Tyler Lu, Kevin Regan, Jasper Snoek, and Danny Tarlow
Finding the Best Place to ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
The Toronto Star's Map of the Week shows where in Toronto the Canadian casualties of WWI lived. Humbling.
The Sunlight Foundation's goal is greater transparency in government. Laudable, but I think the inverse of Gilmore's Rule will hold as it always has: criminality will interpret openness as a threat and route ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
My Government 2.0 class didn't meet this Monday, partly because I was on jury duty, and partly to give students a chance to catch up after last week's two-day showcase at City Hall. Two things I've been watching to fill the void are:
City of Toronto Meeting Monitor --- scrolling lists ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
My students and I a few hours on Monday and Tuesday (Nov 2-3) at City Hall showing off our projects. It wasn't as busy as expected, thanks primarily to H1N1 fears, but there was still more traffic at our double booth than at any other I saw, and I was ...
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