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2011 projects
2011 objectives for visible government
rough draft
- Support communications with diverse types of people
- accessibility
- diversity
- social networking
- Make public engagements more meaningful
- Less chatter in forums, more participation in real development
- Understand and create views of what's happening in open data / gov in Canada and around the world
- Identify and support standards and registries
- Use the above to reduce competition, concentration. Right now too few people aren't scaling well.
- Find ways for more people to easily get involved
Open Source Open Government Projects in Canada
Other Open Government Projects
- Mycelium Daily Question Period Video Service and Archive
- TransitDb - Open Transit Data
Teaching Open Government Projects
Example civic software classes and assignments in Canada:
- Michael McGuffin assigned assigned a project based on VisibleGovernment.ca's travel and hospitality's data set to his Interactive Systems class at ETS in spring 2009.
- Greg Wilson will teach a class on open government projects at U of T in fall 2009
Hackathons
- List of Canadian Open Government Hackathons (and hackatons where Canadians will be)
Open Government Data Sources
- List of Canadian Government Data Sources, existing and sought
