Sunday, Sep 7, 2008
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Calling Bilingual Volunteers
We’re looking to make FixIt Ottawa bilingual. If anyone’s interested in doing some basic translation, please get in touch.
Posted in UncategorizedWe’re looking to make FixIt Ottawa bilingual. If anyone’s interested in doing some basic translation, please get in touch.
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I’m quite pleased at how well FixItOttawa is coming along. A few more nagging issues to deal with and I think we’ll be ready to go.
I know I promised a screenshot earlier, but given that the work done to that point was mostly basic functionality, there wasn’t much to look at. I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and tweak some of the css, so I thought I’d post a couple screenshots after the jump.
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Show Us a Better Way.
The UK Government’s Power of Information Taskforce are running a mashup
competition (a.k.a. “ideas for new products that could improve the way
public information is communicated”) with a £20,000 prize fund and
gigabytes of brand new data and APIs. Maybe we’ll see something similar come out of the City? It would be a great follow-up action to the eGovernment Taskforce report. Provincial data would be equally encouraging. What do you think?
When I was at Mesh ‘08, I had the chance to catch Mark Kuznicki and Sean Howard’s presentation detailing the progress they had made in developing a new way to do public consultations with Metrolinks utilizing a series of unconferences called “Transit Camps” with associated website and branding. I’ve written about the session previously on my blog, but wanted to capture it here as well. You can see the slidedeck below. We’ll be following the progress of the Metronauts closely. It’s something that I think would really work well in tandem with the current online public consultation process (can’t find a link at the moment) for Ottawa’s new Transit plan.
The Mayor’s Taskforce on E-Government report was recently made public and posted on an Igloo-powered social network at http://ottawa.taskforcereport.ca/. If you haven’t read through it yet, I would encourage you to do so and provide your comments. A number of the ideas and examples highlighted in the report could easily be taken on by the community.
It was nice to see that they highlighted a map-based problem reporting tool that exist in several other jurisdictions; something I’ve been working at in some of my spare time over a few weekends. FixIt Ottawa should be out soon as soon as I hear back from the City (ironically enough) on getting some ward boundary polygons. You can grab a copy a copy of the report here.
Posted in General Tagged as egovernment , egovt , mayor , report , taskforceJust getting the site and base pages together hold tight.
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