The Open Government Podcast features 10-12min interviews with voices from the Open Government, Open Data, and Civic Engagement communities. You will hear from public servants, technologists, and engaged citizens on how they are working towards creating a more accountable, transparent, and collaborative government. About the Hosts Richard Pietro considers himself as a Fanboy of Open Government & Open Data, is a founding member of www.citizenbridge.org and was the host for the Open Government ...
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Dispatch - #IODC15 - An International Perspective
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.Today, Tariq Khokhar, an Open Data Evangelist from the World Bank, provides us with an International perspective on this conference and movement.…
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.Av Open Government Podcast
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Dispatch - #IODC15 - Opening Local Governments in Helsinki
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.Today, we present you Hanna Niemi-Huegaerts who is the Development Manager for the Forum Virium HelsinkiAv Open Government Podcast
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!Av Open Government Podcast
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Dispatch - Canadian Open Data Summit - Closing Session
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!Av Open Government Podcast
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Dispatch - #IODC15 - Gamifying the legislative process
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.Today, we present you Martin Szyszlican and how he is gamifying the legislative process in Argentina.Av Open Government Podcast
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Dispatch - Canadian Open Data Summit - Morning Session
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Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!Av Open Government Podcast
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We look back at Season 2 of the Open Government Podcast. Our expectations, favourite moments, and what to expect for Season 3 (which will be spectacular, I might add!). We also tried something new for this episode: We recorded live in front of an audience and had people come up to the mic and share their thoughts on the podcast.Sameer Vastawww.twit…
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Blair Labelle (City of Guelph) - Safe "fail" environment
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Blair Labelle, General Manager of Technology and Innovation at the City of Guelph, talks about the Open Data positive trends he’s seeing in Open Data.Blair Labellehttps://twitter.com/Blair_LabelleSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Dan Swislow (National Democratic Institute) - An Equal Seat
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Dan Swislow, Senior Partnership Officer at the National Democratic Institute and Lead for the Open Government Partnership’s Legislative Openness Working Group, explains how Legislatures are often forgotten in the Open Government & Open Data conversation.Dan Swislowhttps://twitter.com/DanSwislowSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twit…
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Chad Lubelsky (McConnell Institute) - Social Innovation Liaison
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Chad Lubelsky, member of the Program Team at the McConnell Foundation, explains why it is important to integrate Open Data plays into post-secondary education.Chad Lubelskyhttps://twitter.com/clubellySameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Jennifer Hollett (Atkinson Institute) - We Are Politics
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Jennifer Hollett is a former journalist who holds a Master in Public Administration and developed the critically acclaimed Super PAC App at the MIT Media Lab. She is now running for office as a tech-savvy candidate and plans on using new tools to engage citizens in the political process.Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com…
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Jean-Francois Gauthier (Institut de gouvernance numérique) - Blood of Democracy
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Jean-Francois Gauthier, Founder of the Institute on Digital Governance, talks about why governments at all level need a sound digital plan in order to better service their citizens.Jean-Francois Gauthierhttps://twitter.com/ignumeriqueSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.co…
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Ric Marrero, Director of Marketing, Communications, and Membership for the Association of Canadian Pension Management, tells us how individuals citizens have very little input in the creation of regulations.Association of Canadian Pension Managementhttp://www.acpm.com/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic…
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Tim Bousquet, Investigative reporter, editor and publisher of the Halifax Examiner tells us why Open Data does not yet satisfy his needs to keep government accountable.Tim Bousquethttps://twitter.com/Tim_BousquetSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Lori Stewart (NEX Technologies) - Doing The Impossible
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Lori Stewart, Founder of Awesome Calgary and member of Mayor Nenshi’s 2010 campaign team, gets us to dream big and think about the potential of Open Data.Lori Stewarthttps://twitter.com/lori19stewartSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Howard Tam (Part 2) - Consultation Time
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Howard Tam, Principal and Founder of the ThinkFresh Group, takes part in a roundtable discussion about the City of Toronto’s Web Revitalization consultation session that took place on January 29, 2015Howard Tamhttps://twitter.com/htamTOSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.…
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Howard Tam (Part 1) - Consultation Time
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Howard Tam, Principal and Founder of the ThinkFresh Group, takes part in a roundtable discussion about the City of Toronto’s Web Revitalization consultation session that took place on January 29, 2015Howard Tamhttps://twitter.com/htamTOSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.…
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Jonathan Reichental (City of Palo Alto) - Part 2 - Do Something Bigger
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Jonathan Reichental (Part 2), CIO for the City of Palo Alto, tells us how his work as a public servant and in Open Government & Open Data has been a labour of love.Jonathan Reichentalhttps://twitter.com/ReichentalSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Jonathan Reichental (City of Palo Alto) - Part 1 - Do Something Bigger
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Jonathan Reichental (Part 1), CIO for the City of Palo Alto, tells us how an evolving culture of government innovation and “lean” methods helped them launch an Open Data Portal in only six weeks.Jonathan Reichentalhttps://twitter.com/ReichentalSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.shery…
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Peggy Taillon - Get Your Hands Dirty
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Peggy Taillon, President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development and Founder of the Hera Mission, talks about obstacles to civic engagement at home and abroad.Peggy Taillonhttps://twitter.com/HeraMission Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Steve Scheepmaker - Still Big Enough
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Steve Scheepmaker, Information Technology Manager for the Township of Langley, talks about how their Open Data Portal has helped make their city more efficient. Steve Scheepmakerhttps://twitter.com/stevescheepmakrSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Gillian Vrooman, Director with the Open Data BC society, explains the reasons why Open Government & Open Data is spreading outside of the British Columbia urban bases.Gillian Vroomanhttps://twitter.com/gndvSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Mary Agnes Welch (Winnipeg Free Press) - It's All Paper Documents
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Mary Agnes Welch, Journalist with the Winnipeg Free Press, talks about how the Access to Information Act is failing Canadians.Mary Agnes Welchhttps://twitter.com/mawwelchSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/Av Open Government Podcast
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Dawn Arnold, Councillor for the City of Moncton, explains how we need can help redevelop the broken relationship between citizens and their elected representatives.Dawn Arnoldhttps://twitter.com/Dawn_MonctonSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Ali Al-Munayer - What My Neighbours Do
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Ali Al-Munayer, Founder of 3lywa Solutions, explains how he balances life as a Federal public servant who also creates Open Data applications.Ali Al-Munayerhttps://twitter.com/3lywa3lywa Solutionshttp://www.3lywa.com/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Bryan Smith (ThinkData Works) - Everything That's Available
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Bryan Smith, CEO of ThinkData Works, tells us about how their new creation - Namara.io - is able to bring Open Data sets from various government websites all into one place.Bryan Smithhttps://twitter.com/Bryan_ThinkDataThinkData Workshttp://thinkdataworks.com/Namara.iohttp://namara.io/#/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com…
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Andrew Fogg (Import.io) - Data from the outside
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Andrew Fogg is the CDO of Import.io and he tells us how his tool helps people create their own Open Data Sets without having to write a single line of code.Andrew Fogghttps://twitter.com/andrewfoggImport.iohttps://import.io/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Luca Pisterzi - Doing Science Differently
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Luca Pisterzi, the Information and Analytics Program Lead for the Ontario Brain Institute, talks about Brain-CODE. A brain research data repository that shares Open Data and Privacy by Design principles.Luca Pisterzihttps://www.privacybydesign.ca/index.php/ambassador/luca-pisterzi-ph-d/Ontario Brain Institute: Brain-CODEhttp://www.braininstitute.ca…
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Michael Lenczner - The New Momentum
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Michael Lenczner is the CEO of Ajah, a software company that uses open and public data to help funders and non-profits better understand the patterns, and specifically the risks and opportunities in their funding environment.Michael Lencznerwww.twitter.com/mlencAjahwww.ajah.caSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpie…
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Maryantonett Flumian (Institute on Governance) - Process of Delayering
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Maryantonett Flumian is the President of the Institute on Governance and a former Deputy Minister with the Canadian government. Today, she tells us about the bureaucratic forces that tend to drive the public service to a stand-still.Maryantonnett Flumianhttp://iog.ca/profiles/maryantonett-flumian/Institute on Governancehttps://twitter.com/IOGcaSame…
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Dennis Lewycky - Currency of Democracy
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Dennis Lewycky is Executive Director of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and he explains how information plays a role for civic leaders.Dennis Lewyckyhttps://www.linkedin.com/pub/dennis-lewycky/53/739/405Social Planning Council of Winnipeghttp://www.spcw.mb.ca/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic:…
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Co-hosts, Sameer and Richard, look back at Season 1 of the Open Government Podcast...our expectations, favourite moments, and what to expect for Season 2!Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/Av Open Government Podcast
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Adam Hayter tells us how he was able to create a national conversation about a red swing.Adam Hayterhttps://twitter.com/AdamHayterRed Swing Projecthttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/redswinghfx-campaign-reaches-new-heights-on-twitter-1.2682957Fusion Halifaxhttp://www.fusionhalifax.ca/en/home/default.aspxSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRicha…
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David Rauch from the City of Edmonton talks about the advantages of having public servants working with civic groupsDavid Rauchhttps://twitter.com/davidwrauchOpen Edmontonhttps://twitter.com/OpenEdmontonSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Rob Giggey with the City of Ottawa explains how something as simple as a random blog can lead to monumental change.Rob Giggeyhttps://twitter.com/rob_giggeyOttawa Open Data Portalhttp://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-ottawaSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscr…
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Tracey Lauriault - Institutional Memory
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Tracey Lauriault is one of the most respected voices in the Open Government & Data community and in this episode she shares the stories of Canada's early days in Data Management.Tracey Lauriaulthttps://twitter.com/TraceyLauriaultCivicAccess Listservhttp://civicaccess.ca/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMus…
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Jean-Noé Landry - Hacking Corruption
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Jean-Noé Landry explains the roots of Open North and how they've been able to become one of the World's most respected Open Data/Government Organization.Open Northhttps://twitter.com/opennorthCitizenBudgethttp://www.citizenbudget.com/Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.co…
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Anne Marie Aikins - We Can Do Better
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Anne Marie Aikins shares the approach on how Metrolinx has chosen to communicate with the public about "The Big Move" ...and it goes well beyond just a handful of tweets!Anne Marie Aikinshttps://twitter.com/femwriterMetrolinxhttps://twitter.com/MetrolinxThe Big Movehttp://www.metrolinx.com/en/regionalplanning/bigmove/big_move.aspxSameer Vastawww.tw…
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David Wrate from British Columbia's Open Data team shares his secrets on creating a leading Open Data portal, and how it goes beyond just the Data.David Wratehttps://twitter.com/David_R8Data B.C.https://twitter.com/Data_BCSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Geoff Zakaib tells us about the semantic coding known as XBRL, which is an extension of XML. This is an Open Data Standard that has many implications, for example the SEC in the U.S. has mandated that companies submit their financial reports in XBRL format.Geoff Zakaibhttps://twitter.com/DataForGoodYYCXBRLhttps://twitter.com/xbrlintSameer Vastawww.…
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Veronique Dryden - Sharing Everything
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Veronique Dryden works with the Region of Peel Open Data Portal team, and that comes with it a very unique perspective on Open Government & Open Data.Veronique Drydenhttps://www.linkedin.com/pub/veronique-dryden/3/899/536Sameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Dan Scott - Red Flag In Front Of A Bull
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Dan Scott, Laurentian University Systems Librarian, explains how we can provide context to data.Dan Scotthttps://twitter.com/denialsSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/Av Open Government Podcast
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Mark Diner is Alberta's Chief Advisor for Open Government and explains how overcoming public servant's fears is the answer to a more collaborative government. Mark Dinerhttps://twitter.com/govkidSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Daniel Bourgeois - Community Development Officer
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Moncton City Councillor, Daniel Bourgeois, tells us the difference between municipal and professional politics, and how that dynamic affects Open Government.Daniel Bourgeoishttp://www.moncton.ca/Government/City_Council/Councillor_Daniel_Bourgeois.htmSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww…
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Mark Gayler of Microsoft Canada explains the opportunities for value-added services to raw data and how large corporations can fit into the social perspective of Open Government & Open Data.Mark Gaylerhttps://twitter.com/magaylerMicrosoft Openness Teamhttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspxMake Web Not Warhttp://www.webnotwar.ca/Sameer…
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Keith McDonald is Toronto's Open Data lead and explains how government can become an enabler of communities.Keith McDonaldhttps://twitter.com/keithmcdonaldOpen Torontohttps://twitter.com/Open_TOSameer Vastawww.twitter.com/vastaRichard Pietrowww.twitter.com/richardpietroMusic: Sheryl's Crushwww.sherylscrush.com/…
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Josh McDougall tells us how Bitcoin is an example of how sensitive private information can be protected the principles of "privacy by design."Josh McDougallhttps://twitter.com/Abstr_ctHistory of Bitcoinhttp://historyofbitcoin.org/Schemaversehttps://schemaverse.com/Privacy by Designhttp://www.privacybydesign.ca/index.php/about-pbd/7-foundational-pri…
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This is special dispatch of the OGTpod where we are interviewing the Sherpa of the Community Knowledge Exchange Summit. How did the summit come about and what should participants should expect? Plus, Lee shares with us a few surprises he has in mind of the Summit!Lee Rosehttps://twitter.com/thisLeeRoseCKX Summithttp://live.ckx.org/Sameer Vastawww.t…
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Manjit Basi tells us that it that people don’t care or apathetic, it is that they want to create change but feel disconnected from those they feel have the power to make change. Her work with Ottawa’s Citizen Academy is all about creating that connection.Manjit Basihttps://twitter.com/manjitbasiCitizens Academyhttps://twitter.com/CA_OttawaGottaGo C…
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