ontarioseo, Author at Open North

New crowdsourcing framework and Canadian open data study

Posted on September 6, 2013

Open North has compiled the following open data studies for readers to explore: Crowdsourcing Framework for Elections – iHub iHub, a Nairobi-based innovation hub, released the results of their research to develop a crowdsourcing framework for elections. This study, which includes analysis of which social media tools produce the best real-time picture of the “on-the-ground reality” […]

VeloPlan San Francisco!

Posted on August 30, 2013 (September 6, 2023)

In May we announced VeloPlan, a bicycle route mapping tool by our transportation director, Stéphane Guidoin, that reuses Cibi.me with calculations from OpenTripPlanner. To coincide with the launch of the bike share program in the San Francisco bay area, we’ve deploy an SF version of VeloPlan. Use VeloPlan to get to your destination in the fastest, flatest or safest way possible (in Montreal too!). […]

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Action Plan on Open Government consultation

Posted on August 23, 2013 (August 4, 2023)

The Government of Canada is inviting Canadians to comment on their “Action Plan on Open Government” through a new consultation. The consultation is focused on progress in the past year, which includes the revamped data.gc.ca. They have included three guiding questions for comments and participants may submit their responses online or via email. Submissions are due September 9th. This is a […]

Québec Ouvert hackathon and extracting PDF data

Posted on August 16, 2013

Quebec Ouvert is hosting their first Quebec City Hackathon on August 29th and 30th. The hackathon will be an outdoor picnic under a tent at the Place de l’Université-du-Québec in the St-Roch district of the city. Quebec Ouvert encourages developers, designers and officials to participate to demonstrate to the government the power of the open government movement. […]

New version of Popolo and DCCode.org

Posted on August 2, 2013

For our first post back from hiatus, we’ve collected four top stories from the past month. If you think there is an important story we’ve missed, or want to contribute, let us know at info@opennorth.ca. We recently published a new version of the Popolo specification for legislative data. Since first announcing Popolo in March, it has been used […]

News Challenge winners and Open511 update

Posted on June 28, 2013

The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its News Challenge on Open Government. Eight businesses and nonprofits will receive $3.2 million in funding from the Foundation to “provide new tools and approaches to improve the way people and governments interact.” The winners include Procure.io, which aims to simplify and open up the government procurement process, Outline.com, which models and visualizes […]

Major updates to Canada’s open government initiatives

Posted on June 21, 2013

It was a very eventful week in open data in Canada with the release of several interesting open government policy updates. If you are interested in learning more about these policies and reading some expert analysis of recent advancements, we suggest joining the CivicAccess.ca and Open Data Society of BC mailing lists where members of our team often share […]

Interview with the creators of The Tyee’s Election Map

Posted on June 20, 2013

For the recent BC election, The Tyee, an online news magazine, used our Represent service in their BC Election 2013 Map & Guide to connect their readers to electoral candidates. As regular readers already know, Represent is a database of elected officials and electoral boundaries, whose API allows other civic groups to easily lookup representatives for a given address or […]

I Vote for Transparency and the Global Open Data Initiative

Posted on June 14, 2013 (August 4, 2023)

This week, Québec Ouvert launched a new campaign, “I Vote for Transparency” which will identify which municipal candidates support transparent government before the Quebec municipal elections in November. Quebéc Ouvert will survey every candidate to generate a transparency report card, which will then be made available to the public. Sign-up via email and mobile number to receive a […]

Open North to expand its reach thanks to generous support from the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Posted on June 12, 2013

We are pleased to announce that the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation has awarded Open North financial support for its mission and its development as a social enterprise. This support from the Foundation’s Social Innovation Fund will allow us to more proactively engage with governments and community organizations in identifying data needs that can be addressed through the […]

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