We’re pleased to announce that a draft version of the Open 511 specification for road event data is now live on Open North’s GitHub account. Our Transportation Director, Stéphane Guidoin, and his team have done a great job preparing this API and are excited to receive feedback. If you would like to propose changes to the draft, feel […]
Read More… from This Week in Open Government | December 14, 2012
If you’re in Ottawa this weekend be sure to check out Open Data Ottawa’s Learn Hack YOW hackfest happening tomorrow! The event is open to everyone, including non-programmers, as it hopes to encourage citizens to solve city problems no matter what their skill set is. In Alberta, Alison Redford’s government announced the proactive disclosure of expense claims for all members of cabinet. […]
Read More… from This Week in Open Government | December 7, 2012
We’ve been sharing ways to get started with online public consultations, such as with our Citizen Budget tool. Once you have your consultation set up, how do you get citizens to participate in large numbers? The greatest challenge is getting people to visit the consultation website. Once they are there, participation rates are high, from 15% to 35% in […]
We’ve been sharing ways to get started with online public consultations, such as with our Citizen Budget tool. Once you have your consultation set up, how do you get citizens to participate in large numbers? The greatest challenge is getting people to visit the consultation website. Once they are there, participation rates are high, from 15% to 35% in […]
Read More… from Connecting with your citizens | December 5, 2012
We are pleased to announce our partnership with the Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF) on the next phase of development for OpenGovernment.org. Our Executive Director, James McKinney will serve as technical lead on this new endeavour. The partnership will work to bring open government to the local level in the United States and Canada. The PPF has full details on their blog, and we […]
Read More… from This Week in Open Government | November 30, 2012
Last week, Socrata announced “Open Data Standards,” an initiative that led to lively debate on open data mailing lists. In this post, we will dive into the issues around standardization, a core issue for the open data movement. (If you’re already familiar with these issues, skip down to the section on Socrata’s initiative.) The Need for Standards When a technology […]
We previously wrote about welcoming the Sunlight Foundation’s Open States team to work with us in Montreal. Open States tracks the legislators, committees, bills, votes and legislative events in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico and makes this data available via an API and bulk downloads for other groups to reuse. Over the past week, Open North […]
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We are pleased to announce the release of a Drupal module to integrate our Represent API with Drupal’s Webform module. Represent offers the most comprehensive postal code lookup service for elected officials at the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government in Canada. With this module, nonprofits and advocacy groups can easily create email campaigns to elected officials at all levels […]
Read More… from This Week in Open Government | November 16, 2012
Open North was in Toronto last week to present at two exciting events, and we want to share our experiences with you. Ellie Marshall, our communications coordinator, spoke about our work in the open government sector on Monday at the Gov 2.0 YYZ meetup at City Hall and on Thursday at the Public Engagement and Consultation Summit. The speakers […]
This article is only available in French: Budget Citoyen résultats du Plateau Mont-Royal […]
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