[CivicAccess-discuss] 'mon Canada, Open Up!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

'mon Canada, Open Up!http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/12/15/CmonCanada/

Compared to US and others, our government drags its feet on open data
initiatives.

By Michael Geist <http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Michael_Geist/>, Today, TheTyee.ca

Earlier this year, I wrote about the budding momentum behind governments
making their data more readily available to the public for re-use. Open data
initiatives have generated dozens of commercial and non-commercial websites
that add value to the government data.

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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