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 [...]
Earlier this week while I was looking into a few things for one the classes which I am enrolled in at Fanshawe College – I discovered something shocking. Note however, this was found when I got bored of looking for course material and thought, “Hey! What is being announced to students this semester.” One of [...]
From Montreal Quebec, to London Ontario, and now Halton region, Ontario, Open Government and Open Data citizen led initiatives are joining the movement throughout Canada for Open. Nik Garkusha of Microsoft Canada is spearheading the citizen led initiative in Halton Region. Launching the initiative’s website on August 26, 2010, Nik is looking to move and [...]
