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1. Open Gov & Gov 2.0
in Canada

2. david eaves
citizen
blogger
fellow

3. Municipal
Provincial
Federal

4. (internal change)
Federal
Gov 2.0
Provincial Municipal
Open Government

5. NRCAN
(internal change)
Federal
Gov 2.0
Health Canada
Nanaimo
Edmonton
BC
Toronto Vancouver
Provincial Municipal
Open Government

6. Federal
Resources
Provincial Municipal
resource constraints, operational +
# of actors

7. Municipal
Provincial
Federal

8. Toronto
Vancouver

12. • Open and Accessible Data - the City of
Vancouver will freely share with citizens,
businesses and other jurisdictions the
greatest amount of data possible while
respecting privacy and security concerns;
• Open Standards - the City of Vancouver
will move as quickly as possible to adopt
prevailing open standards for data, documents,
maps, and other formats of media;
• Open Source Software - the City of
Vancouver, when replacing existing software or
considering new applications, will place open
source software on an equal footing with
commercial systems during procurement cycles;
and

13. The City of Vancouver (City) now grants
you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-
exclusive licence to use, modify, and
distribute the datasets in all current
and future media and formats for any
lawful purpose.
You now acknowledge that this licence
does not give you a copyright or other
proprietary interest in the datasets.
If you distribute or provide access to
these datasets to any other person,
whether in original or modified form,
you agree to include a copy of, or this
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for,
these Terms of Use and to ensure they
agree to and are bound by them but
without introducing any further
restrictions of any kind.

17. Why Cities?
1. Resource constrained – looking for
help
2. Driven by economic development
3. Many actors – lots of diversity
4. Faster cycles (more frequent
elections)
5. Close to electorate
6. Smaller, more manageable
7. No illusions of cost recovery
8. Coder population

18. Challenges
1. Legal Departments:
1. Licenses that invite not
intimidate
2. Balance risk with opportunity

19. Municipal
Provincial
Federal

22. Why Not Provinces?
1.Lack of political leadership/no
demand
1. Platform opportunities not as
obvious as municipalities
2.Weaker peer pressure

23. Municipal
Provincial
Federal

25. GCPEDIA
&
GCCONNEX

26. Irony

27. Open Data is old

28. Open Data is old

29. weather

30. Not About Technology

31. control & culture

32. Challenges & Opportunities?
1.Crown © reinforces culture of control
2.Mixed incentives for reform
3.Demographic timebomb
4.Leadership at multiple levels (clerk
not enough)
5.Myth of cost recovery

33. Lessons for other jurisdictions
1.Local efforts/experimentation
2.Staff not politicians are critical
3.Create disruptive innovators (whose
career is not on the line)
4.Don’t have a budget – use OS

34. thinkliketheweb.org
www.eaves.ca
Re-mixes & Attributions
Mark Surman – A City that
thinks like the web
This work is copyrighted using Creative Commons
Attribution 2.5
Please re-mix for your city