ontarioseo, Author at Open North

Supporting Good AI Governance in Municipalities: Findings and Recommendations, pt 1.

Posted on June 7, 2023 (September 18, 2023)

Through our role as the Lead Technical Advisor in the Community Solutions Network, Open North has worked to bring leading ethics, policy, and governance research into productive connection with the concrete and practical realities facing practitioners in local government. This intersection is, we think, where real and lasting improvements to peoples’ lives will be made. […]

Data governance and maturity in New Zealand’s government: progressing but significant challenges remain

Posted on May 17, 2023 (August 4, 2023)

A recent conference in New Zealand had data governance and maturity as some of its foci, showing that the conversation has moved from a few of us ‘data nerds’ going on about it while everyone else falls asleep, to managers and leaders recognizing these are both key and an issue. Last week, I travelled north […]

Montréal in Common: Data Governance Workstream

Posted on May 3, 2023 (September 6, 2023)

About Us Montréal in Common brings together an innovation community led by the City of Montréal, whose partners are experimenting with solutions in food access, mobility and municipal regulations in a desire to rethink the metropolis. Thirteen projects are being implemented as part of Montréal in Common thanks to the $50 million prize awarded to […]

Data Governance between Practicalities and Principles: An Update on Community of Practice Workshop Findings

Posted on April 24, 2023 (October 3, 2023)

On March 15 we conducted another workshop in our Community of Practice series. The topic of this workshop was data governance, and the goal was to provide an introduction to more expansive thinking on data governance and unpack how foundational this issue is to a more socially equitable, inclusive, and sustainable digital strategy. Through our […]

Data Governance, Together: Testing a participatory workshop with the MozFest 2023 community

Posted on April 18, 2023 (August 4, 2023)

In this blog post, the Open North Team shares some reflections on their recent workshop during MozFest 2023, titled Exploring Data Governance As A Community For Open North’s first appearance at Mozfest, we wanted to do something quite special that really captured our work and thinking around data governance. We have been publicly displaying different […]

Data Governance for Equity: Principles-Driven and Structurally Iterative

Posted on February 16, 2023 (August 4, 2023)

To learn more about Open North’s approach to data governance, be sure to check out the first blog post in this series as well as our online course. In a previous blog post we began introducing Open North’s stance on data governance. In that post we explained our perspective on why data is not just […]

Montreal in Common: Data Governance Framework

Posted on February 7, 2023 (September 6, 2023)

The Data Governance Framework is one of the tools developed by the Data Governance Workstream as part of Montréal in Common. To learn more about our work, we invite you to visit the Data Governance Workstream webpage. The objectives Along with your strategic objectives, the Montréal in Common data governance framework is your ongoing compass […]

Community Solutions Network Blog #4: Diving Deeper: Workshopping One-on-Ones for Digital Capacity and Data Governance

Posted on January 26, 2023 (August 4, 2023)

At the end of last year, we conducted two more workshops in the Community Solutions Network community of practice program, one on Stakeholder Mapping and another on the Civic Values of a project. In addition to the fascinating content of the conversations, these workshops also revealed more about what it takes to really learn from […]

Rethinking Data Governance

Posted on January 16, 2023 (September 18, 2023)

To learn more about Open North’s approach to data governance, be sure to check out the second blog post in this series as well as our online course. Data is not just about data. Data is about the very arrangements of power, profit, inclusion, and equality that structure our society. As such, data governance is […]

Are We Using ‘Technology’? Some Reflections on the Barcelona Smart City World Expo Congress 2022

Posted on January 9, 2023 (August 4, 2023)

This year’s Smart City World Expo Congress in Barcelona emphasized inclusivity as part of its motto. Open North, as an organization that understands inclusivity as a foundation for our work on digital transformation, was there to engage with people from all around the globe and further our mission to use data and technology for the […]

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