This week in Victoria, British Columbia, there was an amazing conference which took place – OpenGovWest BC. An event which its focus was primarily within the BC demographic also attracted others from across Canada – Nick Charney, Walter Schwabe, myself and many more. The one day event was filled with approximately 215 attendees and an [...]
Wednesday I spoke at OpenGovWest BC about one of the success stories of OpenDataLondon, where I shared with the audience in a small case study like format (challenges and overcoming them) the success of LondonTrash. Afterwards, a few of the attendees wondered what were the possibilities of using data from the Federal Government. Well, I [...]
The last weekend of September, Open Data London hosted its first hackathon. The hackathon was dedicated to the design and development of LondonTrash. Some will say it was a success and other’s may not fully agree, however, I personally believe it was a success with many challenges that we had to try to overcome. For [...]
Recently, I have been working with a few folks across Canada on an Open Data project that will be launching soon. At this point in time, I will not share the details about the project, however, I wanted to share my point of view from working with Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative, OGDI for short, [...]
A few weeks from now, November 9th to be exact, I will be sitting in a Boeing 737, 30,000 plus feet above ground and bound for Victoria, British Columbia. British Columbia is becoming one of the most appealing provinces to live in, at least for me anyways. Not only has the Provincial Government adopted Open [...]
