Open Gov & Gov 2.0in Canada

david eavescitizenbloggerfellow

Municipal

Provincial

Federal

Gov 2.0

(internal change)

Open Government

Federal

Provincial Municipal

Gov 2.0

(internal change)

Open Government

Federal

Provincial Municipal

NRCAN

VancouverToronto

EdmontonBC

Health Canada

Nanaimo

Resources

resource constraints, operational +# of actors

Federal

Provincial Municipal

Municipal

Provincial

Federal

Toronto

Vancouver

•Open and Accessible Data - the City ofVancouver will freely share with citizens,businesses and other jurisdictions thegreatest amount of data possible whilerespecting privacy and security concerns;

•Open Standards - the City of Vancouverwill move as quickly as possible to adoptprevailing open standards for data, documents,maps, and other formats of media;

•Open Source Software - the City ofVancouver, when replacing existing software orconsidering new applications, will place opensource software on an equal footing withcommercial systems during procurement cycles;and

The City of Vancouver (City) now grantsyou a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, anddistribute the datasets in all currentand future media and formats for anylawful purpose.You now acknowledge that this licencedoes not give you a copyright or otherproprietary interest in the datasets.If you distribute or provide access tothese datasets to any other person,whether in original or modified form,you agree to include a copy of, or thisUniform Resource Locator (URL) for,these Terms of Use and to ensure theyagree to and are bound by them butwithout introducing any furtherrestrictions of any kind.

Why Cities?

1. Resource constrained – looking forhelp

2. Driven by economic development

3. Many actors – lots of diversity

4. Faster cycles (more frequentelections)

5. Close to electorate

6. Smaller, more manageable

7. No illusions of cost recovery

8. Coder population

Challenges

1. Legal Departments:1. Licenses that invite not

intimidate2. Balance risk with opportunity

Municipal

Provincial

Federal

Why Not Provinces?

1.Lack of political leadership/nodemand

1. Platform opportunities not asobvious as municipalities

2.Weaker peer pressure

Municipal

Provincial

Federal

GCPEDIA&

GCCONNEX

Irony

Open Data is old

Open Data is old

weather

Not About Technology

control & culture

Challenges & Opportunities?

1.Crown © reinforces culture of control

2.Mixed incentives for reform

3.Demographic timebomb

4.Leadership at multiple levels (clerknot enough)

5.Myth of cost recovery

Lessons for other jurisdictions

1.Local efforts/experimentation

2.Staff not politicians are critical

3.Create disruptive innovators (whosecareer is not on the line)

4.Don’t have a budget – use OS

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