Funded by Open Data for Development in Winter 2015 Open North co-led the standards stream of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Open Data Working Group from 2014-2015. In this capacity, Open Data for Development (OD4D) funded Open North to investigate reporting and analysis practices of OGP members’ open data catalogs, study existing processes to identify […]
Category: Open data
Can Open Data make Canadian cities more resilient?
This article was co-authored by Jean-Noé Landry and by Professor Pamela Robinson and was originally featured on Medium. Worldwide, open data is helping to fight corruption, to increase government efficiency, and to grow sectors of the economy, and early research hints that it can also play an important role in making our cities more resilient. The […]
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Data 4 Impact Report 2016
Reporting from the 1st annual Data 4 Impact workshop held in Saint John (NB) in the lead-up to the Canadian Open Data Summit 2016. The event brought together more than 60 regional and local not-for-profit organizations to raise awareness about the value of data sharing within the sector, provide frameworks and techniques to facilitate the […]
A New Initiative by Open North to Help Cities Succeed in Planning and Implementing Their Open Data Programs
Cities across Canada are committing more than ever to implementing open data infrastructure and policies – which now means a greater need for strategic planning and tactical support in order to take advantage of the full benefits of open data. With its strong record of open data expertise, that’s where Open North comes in. It’s important for us […]
Understanding the Data Needs of Settlement Stakeholders to Better Support Newcomers and Refugees
Understanding the Data Needs of Settlement Stakeholders to Better Support Newcomers and Refugees
Funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in April 2016 Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) commissioned this open data study from Open North in 2016, when Canada was facing an influx of Syrian refugees. The report focuses on how IRCC’s open data strategy and infrastructure could better meet the data and information needs […]
Interview with Open Data Ottawa
The Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS) is a collaborative effort organised with the help and support of open data leaders and organisations from across Canada. We’ve asked some of our partners to tell us why open data matters, what hopes they have for the Summit, and how they wish the open data community to grow after the […]
Replicating the Open Data Institute
At the ODI Annual Summit on October 29, the Open Data Institute announced the first 13 nodes in its global network. This open data network is an experiment that intends to meet the demand from people and organizations for ODI-like organizations in their home countries, regions, and cities. The aspiration is that some will become country-level nodes on par with the ODI […]
Open Data Speed Dating
The past few weeks have been very active in the open data community. One event in particular stands out – the open data speed dating event which took place two weeks ago on the sidelines of GTEC. The “speed dating” concept was first used last year during an Ottawa hackathon where city employees discussed open data for five […]
New crowdsourcing framework and Canadian open data study
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” […]
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