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Open North built BudgetPlateau.com, an interactive municipal budget simulator, for the Plateau Mont-Royal borough in Montreal. Of the borough's 100 000 residents, 5 668 visited the online budget consultation tool and 523 submitted balanced borough budgets over the summer of 2011. To learn more about the project and what it can do for your city, visit CitizenBudget.com. Launched May 2011.
MaMairie.ca tracks the activity of Montreal elected officials, from media mentions to Twitter updates. Launched November 2011.
Represent is an open database of elected representatives and administrative boundaries for the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government in Canada. Launch January 2012.
In 2011, Montrealers browsed over 700 000 pages on Resto-Net.ca to check if a local restaurant had recently violated a health code. Launched November 2010.
PatinerMontreal.ca provides up-to-date information on the condition of outdoor rinks in the City of Montreal. Since its launch in 2010, over 24 000 skaters have used the website to plan their winter fun. The website publishes its data through an API, which developers have used to create Android versions. Launched December 2010.
Gazette Documents is an online database of contracts awarded by the City of Montreal. Built for the Montreal Gazette, the project extracts contracts data from hundreds of PDFs so that journalists and citizens can explore and analyze how public money is spent. To date, at least three articles at two newspapers have been written using this database. Launched September 2011.
Open North created the “Get to Know Your Candidates” interactive feature for the Montreal Gazette, with photos, social media links, and other basic information for all candidates in the 2011 federal election. Launched April 2011.
We publish our open-source projects on GitHub. We regularly contribute to other organization’s open-source projects, such as OpenCorporates, an open database of the world's companies, and Alaveteli, software for making freedom of information requests.