ontarioseo, Author at Open North

Transparency Camp and the Participatory Budgeting Conference

Posted on April 19, 2013 (September 6, 2023)

The Treasury Board of Canada announced a new pilot project to increase the ease of submitting and paying for Access to Information and Privacy requests online. So far, the new portal only allows requests to be sent to Citizenship and Immigration, the Treasury Board and Shared Services Canada. More government institutions are expected to join after the one-year pilot […]

Halifax’s open data portal

Posted on April 12, 2013 (September 6, 2023)

If you live in the Montreal area, join us on April 24th at Station-C for a 5@7 in support of our fundraising campaign for MaMairie.ca. Meet the Open North team and talk about strategies for encouraging open and transparent government in Montreal! Halifax, Nova Scotia is the most recent large Canadian municipality to launch an open data portal; the City […]

This Week in Open Government

Posted on March 30, 2013

James McKinney, our executive director, will be speaking on the opening panel of Open Data Exchange 2013 at the Jeanne Sauvé House on April 6th. Throughout the day there will be panels in both French and English. Joey Coleman, of Open Data Hamilton, published an overview of Hamilton’s open data policy process thus far. This interesting article is a great […]

This Week in Open Government | March 22, 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013

In only one week, we’ve raised over $1,400 for MaMairie.ca in Montreal. In Toronto we’ve raised over $1,200 with 15 days left to reach our goal. We would like to thank all of our supporters so far. You can continue to support our campaign and encourage those who haven’t contributed yet to do so now by sharing this link […]

Open Data Roundtable with Minister Clement

Posted on March 15, 2013

Photo: Pinpoint National Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable discussion with Minister Tony Clement and a small group of open data experts, developers, librarians and government leaders. Our meeting, moderated by David Eaves, focused on the future of data.gc.ca. In his opening remarks, Mr. Clement suggested that data should be viewed as Canada’s […]

This Week in Open Government | March 15, 2013

Posted on March 15, 2013 (September 6, 2023)

The Tyee released their new Election Map & Guide for the British Columbia provincial election. This tool, which enables citizens to understand the race in each riding, uses data from our Represent database of electoral boundaries and elected officials. Presidential Innovation Fellow Phillip Ashlock posted today to the Open Knowledge Foundation’s blog about the failure of many government open data portals to […]

This Week in Open Government | March 8, 2013

Posted on March 8, 2013

Open North participated in a Huffington Post Live segment about reinventing democracy in the age of digital technology. You can rewatch the segment to learn more about our approach to civic technology. The City of Philadelphia released their Open Data Guidebook, which was developed by their Open Data Working group to help departments understand how and why to release data to the […]

Open Postal Code Data

Posted on March 5, 2013

Represent is a web service run by Open North that allows Canadian citizens to find their elected officials by postal code for free. Canadian nonprofits use Represent to help their supporters send letters to their representatives about important issues. In order to provide this service, we need access to accurate information about postal codes. Both the United States and […]

This Week in Open Government | March 1, 2013

Posted on March 1, 2013

Our friends at mySociety will use our Popolo specification for storing data on people, organizations and positions with their PopIt web service. You can track their progress on GitHub or join the conversation as we work on finalizing this specification through our issue tracker. DataBC, the Government of British Columbia’s open data portal, posted a review of the BC Open Data Day and Open Data Summit, […]

This Week in Open Government | February 22, 2013

Posted on February 22, 2013 (September 6, 2023)

Our crowdfunding initiative for the Toronto version of MyCityHall.ca is underway! This is your opportunity to support open and transparent local government in Toronto; even $1 of support (and especially sharing the project with your friends and network) gets us closer to launching MyCityHall.ca. Tomorrow is International Open Data Day! We are co-hosting the Montreal event with Quebec Ouvert […]

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