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Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions of Openness 6 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
“The more you move to the right the more radical you are. Because everywhere on the left you actually have to educate people about the law, which is currently unfair to the user, before you even intro...
Some good articles on surveillance 5 Aug 2013 | 10:31 am
There are a number of very good articles floating around as the NSA debacle begins to sink in. Two in particular come to mind, the first is a great long read, the second and third are just about the r...
Vacation 2 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
Some of you may have noticed I haven’t posted in a bit. I’ve not stopped blogging! I’m just taking a break to recharge the batteries and do some thinking. The travel this year has been intense so I t...
OGP Rules of the Game – Tactical Mistake or Strategic Necessity? 8 Jul 2013 | 09:44 pm
The other week Martin Tisne, the UK Policy Director at the Omidyar Network, as well as one of the key architects of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), posted a blog post expressing concern that Ci...
The Uncertain Future of Open Data in the Government of Canada 25 Jun 2013 | 05:44 pm
It is possible to state that presently, open data is at its high water mark in the Government of Canada. Data.gc.ca has been refreshed, more importantly, the government has signed the Open Data Charte...
Some thoughts on the relaunched data.gc.ca 20 Jun 2013 | 04:40 pm
Yesterday, I talked about what I thought was the real story that got missed in the fanfare surrounding the relaunch of data.gc.ca. Today I’ll talk about the new data.gc.ca itself. Before I begin, ther...
The Real News Story about the Relaunch of data.gc.ca 19 Jun 2013 | 04:29 pm
As many of my open data friends know, yesterday the government launched its new open data portal to great fanfare. While there is much to talk about there – something I will dive into tomorrow – that ...
Policy-Making in a Big Data World 18 Jun 2013 | 12:20 pm
For those interested I appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin the other week talking about Big Data and policy making. There was a good discussion with a cast of character that included (not countin...
What Traffic Lights Say About the Future of Regulation 13 Jun 2013 | 10:05 pm
I have a piece up on TechPresident about some crazy regulations that took place in Florida that put citizens at greater risk all so the state and local governments can make more money. Here’s a chunk:...
The Past, Present and Future of Sensor Journalism 3 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School for a workshop on sensor journalism. The workshop (hashtag #towsenses) broug...
