Looking at the world around us, it’s not difficult to find instances of data and technology being used for questionable or harmful ends. Intrusive contact tracing technology, facial recognition, and crime prediction software — to name a few — not only threaten individual and collective privacy but embed further bias and discrimination into our cities. […]
Data Literacy: Essential Skills for the 21st Century Data and technology are now ubiquitous in our daily lives. Although we have unprecedented access to data from various sources, we increasingly have to provide our personal data in order to access various online services. Even though this exchange is voluntary, we are not entirely aware of […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis, it’s also a data crisis. People are asking for better data on the pandemic and the media is echoing that call. In this blog, we will explore how this cry for data around the pandemic highlights long-standing data issues, data mapping, and visualization and how, despite […]
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What is the role of data in the response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic? What datasets, data use cases, and data sharing practices should be promoted to scale our collective action? On July 2nd, Open North and the Standards Council of Canada hosted a public consultation to discuss the role of data during the […]
What is the role of open data in the response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic? What datasets, data use cases, and data sharing practices should be promoted to scale our collective action? On July 2nd, Open North and the Standards Council of Canada hosted a public consultation to discuss the role of open data […]
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On July 2, 2020, Open North conducted a consultation on the role of data in the COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with the Standards Council of Canada. Close to 100 people gathered to think about ways to leverage data to help recover from the pandemic and better prepare for future health crises. Five guest panelists discussed […]
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This open data webinar explored the two questions: What is the role of data in the response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic? What datasets, data use cases, and data sharing practices should be promoted in the areas of disease spread, government actions, and community impact to scale our collective action? In collaboration with the Standards […]
As digital infrastructure becomes a part of our cities at an unprecedented scale, the City of Toronto will increasingly have to reckon with the potential risks and impacts involving data that accompany it. The City is currently developing a policy framework and governance model to guide the introduction of connected, smart technologies. It has commissioned […]
As a society, we’ve grown accustomed to getting our information in real-time. The CBC displays real-time vote counts as they are released for elections, transit operators share their bus locations via General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) to navigation apps, and recently, maps displaying the spread of the virus and case counts are dominating news headlines. This real-time data mentality is also spreading to […]
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