This past weekend (February 11 – 13, 2011) I had the opportunity to join others from around the world to attend Gov 2.0 LA at a venue directly on the beach of the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. It was a pleasant change in weather and scenery, instead of London’s snow covered streets and subzero [...]
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, [...]
