Kudos are in order to Canada’s government for global leadership, commitment, and swift moves by our new government to action, notably in the areas of commitment to open access and open data to both academic and government information, commitment to creation of a Chief Science Officer position, restoring the mandatory long form census, forthcoming free and more timely access to Statistics Canada data, and initiating electoral reform (to mention a few moves!). Following are my comments as an expert in the area of information policy, notably open access, intended to help strengthen a solid, ambitious but realistic draft plan. In the spirit of openness and transparency, note that I am a professor at the University of Ottawa’s bilingual School o...
The open data moving is gathering steam globally, and it has the potential to transform relationship...
Earlier this week I talked about the problems that governments face when trying to get feedback on w...
Open data is flourishing in Canada, but there are few formalized data literacy initiatives. Civic te...
The Government of Canada is committed to making federal science, scientific data, and scientists mor...
(Pre-print version) This first annual report presents the progress made by the federal Science-base...
The central recommendation of the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s report was that the Australian Governme...
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has at its heart a theme of continuously improving how governm...
La multiplication des initiatives d’ouverture des données publiques et des plans d’action relatifs à...
Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government (2018-2020 NAP) provides Environment and ...
Presented at Ontario Library Association SuperConference, Toronto, ON, January 2016
This session described how around the world an increasing number of governments are creating open da...
This National Action Plan sets out the initial steps the federal government will take in pursuit of ...
In June 2004, an expert Task Force, appointed by the National Research Council Canada and chaired by...
The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral initiative established in 2011 that aims to secure...
As governments develop open data strategies, such efforts reflect the advent of the Internet, the di...
The open data moving is gathering steam globally, and it has the potential to transform relationship...
Earlier this week I talked about the problems that governments face when trying to get feedback on w...
Open data is flourishing in Canada, but there are few formalized data literacy initiatives. Civic te...
The Government of Canada is committed to making federal science, scientific data, and scientists mor...
(Pre-print version) This first annual report presents the progress made by the federal Science-base...
The central recommendation of the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s report was that the Australian Governme...
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has at its heart a theme of continuously improving how governm...
La multiplication des initiatives d’ouverture des données publiques et des plans d’action relatifs à...
Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government (2018-2020 NAP) provides Environment and ...
Presented at Ontario Library Association SuperConference, Toronto, ON, January 2016
This session described how around the world an increasing number of governments are creating open da...
This National Action Plan sets out the initial steps the federal government will take in pursuit of ...
In June 2004, an expert Task Force, appointed by the National Research Council Canada and chaired by...
The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral initiative established in 2011 that aims to secure...
As governments develop open data strategies, such efforts reflect the advent of the Internet, the di...
The open data moving is gathering steam globally, and it has the potential to transform relationship...
Earlier this week I talked about the problems that governments face when trying to get feedback on w...
Open data is flourishing in Canada, but there are few formalized data literacy initiatives. Civic te...