Category: Open government

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 […]

Read More… from Striving for open government through performance measure dashboards

As we watch Canadian governments and their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, certain issues are coming to light that have repercussions on Canadian open government practices, namely: coordination and standardisation, communication of data, and privacy and openness principles. This is also Canada’s opportunity to assert leadership globally and to demonstrate the application of open government in support […]

Read More… from The challenges and opportunities for Canadian interoperability, open government, and privacy

This is the first in a series of “What We Heard” posts from the Applied Research Lab with reflections from the Open Government Partnership Summit 2019. Giving meaning to inclusion The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit 2019 provided a platform for participants to share their locally-initiated open government projects. Throughout the week we heard from speakers ranging […]

Read More… from Two stories of open government from São Paulo and Santiago what we learned about local inclusion

This is the first in a series of “What We Heard” posts from the Applied Research Lab with reflections from the Open Government Partnership Summit 2019. What were people talking about at the OGP Summit? In its variety of forms, technology was at the center of many discussions at the recent global Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit […]

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