New research report from the brilliant Sam Burton at CDS! 🎉 “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” https://digital.canada.ca/2025/01/23/how-can-civic-tech-help-improve-government-service-delivery/ #civictech
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“Who would run for public office, for any party, if this is what it means? The best and the brightest will stay far, far away from such an asinine thunderdome. Eventually, the only people who volunteer would be spineless toadies, hyperpartisan whack jobs or anger addicts, left to run the country like a ‘roided-out island of misfit toys.” Shannon Proudfoot: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opinion/article-what-you-get-when-politics-is-about-finding-a-face-to-punch/ #cdnpoli
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“The library is a place where everyone feels welcome.” For your wholesome libraries-are-great and also move-to-the-Yukon content: https://yukoncareerpaths.ca/blog/library-place-where-everyone-feels-welcome-lets-meet-outreach-worker-whitehorse-public-library #Yukon #libraries
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“I think the project was an enormous success in the sense of getting information about traffic patterns immediately. Ultimately, the MTA and others will have this information, but the value of the tracker is in delivering this immediately. I was so proud that they were able to put this together.” https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24344732/nyc-congestion-pricing-tracker-data-google-maps via @verge
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Happy new year from Whitehorse, #Yukon!
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“There are too many billionaires and CEOs in charge of too few information chokepoints, which are powered by too much surveillance over too many users who have too few viable alternatives.” Matt Pearce: https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/lessons-on-media-policy-at-the-slaughter
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Super glad to see fellow public servants blogging! 💖
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This piece from @quidampepin is a great read: “State, bureaucracy and power – Reflections of a bureaucrat” https://www.davidpepin.ca/billets/state-power-bureaucracy/ #GCdigital
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"Today, our liberal leaders seem so protective of our institutions that they are terrified to admit they my be broken. Thus, they are unwilling to offer a comprehensive vision on how to fix them." Must-read piece from @justinling #uspol #cdnpoli https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-utopian-pessimist-manifesto
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On the way home to Whitehorse. Thanks @OpenDataSociety for a great #CODS24! #opendata
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“These would-be oligarchs are a collective action problem, personified: they cannot curb their individual greed so we must all endure their furious attempts to prop up a madman who might end the American experiment. Let’s not fool ourselves.” Nilay Patel in the @verge https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024 #uspol
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“Right now (or as of last year), the housing supply gap was a bit over 2 million people. With our forecast for housing starts and population, we think that will grow to 3.5 million people by 3.5. Affordability is bad and it’s likely to get worse unless we can build more homes.” Bob Dugan from CMHC #CODS24 #opendata #housing @OpenDataSociety
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“We produce analysis and advice to impact key areas of the housing sector. We’re always trying to evolve our thinking and the sources that we’re using, to be as agile as we can to understand the housing industry.” Stephanie Shewchuk from CMHC #CODS24 #opendata #housing
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Don Iveson, chair of CMHC. “There’s a degree of policy consensus” – we need to build more housing. #CODS24 #opendata #housing
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“What's a ghost’s favourite data type? Boo-leans.” 👻
Sean Clovechok from the City of Edmonton kicking off day 2 of #CODS24 #opendata @OpenDataSociety
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Cara Scarfone from TBS and Eugene Chen from @OpenDataSociety running a workshop on Canada’s National Action Plan on Open Government. #CODS24 #opendata
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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) need: a roadmap to know what’s available where; quality data that is easy to process; access to talent and technology. Gregory Richards at #CODS24 #opendata @OpenDataSociety
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Tools that small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are using to work with open government data. 📊 Gregory Richards at #CODS24 #opendata @OpenDataSociety
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7 case studies with small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and all 7 of them said that open government data helped them compete. Gregory Richards at #CODS24 #opendata
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“We’ve been administering our portal for more than 8 years, and we wanted to better understand user needs, what we could improve, and how we could better support our open data community.” Lucy Ye and Lori McKay-Peet #CODS24 #opendata @OpenDataSociety
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