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"The Net interprets censorship as

damage and routes around it."

“Citizens interprets delay as damage and route around it."

•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;

Three laws of open data:

1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist

2. If it isn’t in open and machine readable formats, it can’t be used

3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower

healthier communitiesbetter democracystronger economy

in short:digital is different

health and safety

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accountability and power

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ICAN - $248MChoson Kallah - $120MUnited Way - $96.1

UK £500

government as platform

(Making life easier)

citizen engagement

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3-D model

graffitianalysis

Bing ThomArchitects

Local Government

Traditional Community groups

taxi city

1. Track everything, requests, answers,

etc...2. Create a database

of responses3. Insist on machine readable everything

Three laws of open data:

1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist

2. If it isn’t in open and machine readable formats, it can’t be used

3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower