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Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on Open Data 13 May 2013 | 11:25 am
As those steeped in the policy wonk geekery of open data are likely already aware, last Thursday the President of the United States issued an Executive Order Making Open and Machine Readable the New D...
LinkedIn is as confused about what I as everyone else 2 May 2013 | 05:08 am
Often when I meet people, they ask me what I do. The challenge is, there is no easy answer to that question. I advise companies and non-profits on strategy, I do advocacy work and serve as an expert o...
The Value of Open Data – Don’t Measure Growth, Measure Destruction 26 Apr 2013 | 07:36 am
Alexander Howard – who, in my mind, is the best guy covering the Gov 2.0 space – pinged me the other night to ask “what’s the best evidence of open data leading to economic outcomes that you’ve seen?”...
Canada Post and the War on Open Data, Innovation & Common Sense (continued, sadly) 25 Apr 2013 | 03:57 pm
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog post on Canada Post’s War on the 21st Century, Innovation & Productivity. In it I highlighted how Canada Post launched a lawsuit against a company – Geocoder.c...
How not to sell the Oil Sands 22 Apr 2013 | 01:38 pm
If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync, and behind the ball, the government has ...
You Have No Rights – Because you are Breaking the Law Right Now 18 Apr 2013 | 01:39 pm
For those who missed it, which I suspect is most people, there is a fantastic Op-Ed in the New York Times by Peter Ludlow of Northwestern University. Titled Hacktivists as Gadflies it is a scary look ...
Toronto Star Op-Ed: Muzzled Scientists, Open Government and the Limits of Rules 5 Apr 2013 | 03:18 pm
I’ve a piece in today’s Toronto Star ”Rules are no substitute for cultivating a culture of open government“ about the Information Commissioners decision to investigate the muzzling of Canadian scienti...
How Car2Go ruins Car2Go 21 Mar 2013 | 12:45 pm
So let me start by saying, in theory, I LOVE Car2Go. The service has helped prevent me from buying a car and has been indispensable in opening up more of Vancouver to me. For those not familiar with C...
Call For Interest: Toronto Negotiation Unconference 2013 20 Mar 2013 | 12:49 pm
This is cross-posted from a site my friend Misha Gouberman’s created to explore an idea. We’ve been doing some very light scheming thinking about the following event. What follows is a piece he wrote ...
Open Data Day: Lessons for Hacktivists 14 Mar 2013 | 10:44 pm
This piece is cross-posted on TechPresident where I post articles on the intersection of politics, technology and transparency and serve as an editor. Three years ago, after a chance encounter with Da...
