This morning, I am on my way to Toronto once again, this time not for meetings or any sort of hackathon, but instead for GovCamp Toronto. Not only will I be attending the day long conference, I will also be presenting/demo’ing Emitter.ca within the morning. Therefore, feel free to stop by and say Hi if [...]
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 [...]
Over the past week, I have spent a good chunk of my time watching videos of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, whether live streamed or recorded sessions from the House of Commons. There have been two sessions in particular that I have watched as there has been testimony by both [...]
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 [...]
