[CivicAccess-discuss] Need your input - city open data resolution

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

not that I know of!  It would be great to give it a go - I can review if you
wish to start!

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Yannick Brosseau <
yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anybody did the work of translating this resolution into french?
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks all!  I got some good responses and sent them to the City.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
> tlauriau at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> A city close to me is thinking about adopting the City of Vancouver
> >> resolution on open data.  Do you see anything missing in this list?
> >> Can it be improved?
> >>
> >> At a glance I see interoperability missing.  Anything else?  Your
> >> ideas and thoughts will  be used as info for the city officials.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> t
> >> **************************
> >> (via http://data.vancouver.ca/index.htm)
> >>
> >> 2.    Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source
> >> MOVED by Councillor Reimer
> >> SECONDED by Councillor Meggs
> >>      WHEREAS the City of Vancouver is committed to bringing the
> >> community into City Hall
> >>      by engaging citizens, and soliciting their ideas, input and
> >> creative energy;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS municipalities across Canada have an opportunity to
> >> dramatically lower their
> >>      costs by collectively sharing and supporting software they use and
> >> create;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS the total value of public data is maximized when
> >> provided for free or where
> >>      necessary only a minimal cost of distribution;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS when data is shared freely, citizens are enabled to use
> >> and re-purpose it to
> >>      help create a more economically vibrant and environmentally
> >> sustainable city;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS Vancouver needs to look for opportunities for creating
> >> economic activity and
> >>      partnership with the creative tech sector;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS the adoption of open standards improves transparency,
> >> access to city
> >>      information by citizens and businesses and improved coordination
> >> and efficiencies
> >>      across municipal boundaries and with federal and provincial
> partners;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) is a
> >> not-for-profit society
> >>      created as a partnership between local government, provincial
> >> government and major
> >>      utility companies in British Columbia to share and integrate
> >> spatial data to which 88%
> >>      of BC local governments are members but Vancouver is not;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS digital innovation can enhance citizen communications,
> >> support the brand of
> >>      the city as creative and innovative, improve service delivery,
> >> support citizens to self-
> >>      organize and solve their own problems, and create a stronger
> >> sense of civic
> >>      engagement, community, and pride;
> >>
> >>      WHEREAS the City of Vancouver has incredible resources of data
> >> and information, and
> >>      has recently been recognized as the Best City Archive of the World.
> >>
> >>      THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Vancouver endorses the
> >> principles of:
> >>
> >>          •    Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will
> >> freely share with
> >>               citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the
> >> greatest amount of data
> >>               possible while respecting privacy and security concerns;
> >>
> >>          •    Open Standards - the City of Vancouver will move as
> >> quickly as possible to
> >>               adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents,
> >> maps, and other formats
> >>               of media;
> >>
> >>          •    Open Source Software - the City of Vancouver, when
> >> replacing existing
> >>               software or considering new applications, will place
> >> open source software on
> >>               an equal footing with commercial systems during
> >> procurement cycles; and
> >>
> >>       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT in pursuit of open data the City of
> >> Vancouver will:
> >>
> >>           •   Identify immediate opportunities to distribute more of its
> >> data;
> >>
> >>           •   Index, publish and syndicate its data to the internet
> >> using prevailing open
> >>               standards, interfaces and formats;
> >>
> >>           •   Develop appropriate agreements to share its data with
> >> the Integrated Cadastral
> >>               Information Society (ICIS) and encourage the ICIS to in
> >> turn share its data with
> >>               the public at large;
> >>
> >>           •   Develop a plan to digitize and freely distribute
> >> suitable archival data to the
> >>               public;
> >>
> >>           •   Ensure that data supplied to the City by third parties
> >> (developers, contractors,
> >>               consultants) are unlicensed, in a prevailing open
> >> standard format, and not
> >>               copyrighted except if otherwise prevented by legal
> >> considerations;
> >>
> >>           •   License any software applications developed by the City
> >> of Vancouver such that
> >>               they may be used by other municipalities, businesses,
> >> and the public without
> >>               restriction.
> >>
> >>       BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED THAT the City Manager be tasked with
> >> developing an action
> >>       plan for implementation of the above.
> >>
> >> Referred
> >>                                             *****
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tracey P. Lauriault
> >> 613-234-2805
> >> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tracey P. Lauriault
> > 613-234-2805
> > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
> >
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> Yannick Brosseau
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> Consultant en logiciel libre
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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