OpenOttawa.org http://www.openottawa.org open data and web apps for ottawa. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Join the Conversation on Ottawa’s Transit Future http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/395839188/ http://www.openottawa.org/join-the-conversation-on-ottawas-transit-future/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:43:42 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=20 The online consultation component regarding Ottawa’s Transit Plan has been posted on the City’s website. This is in addition to the open houses that have been taking place across the City this week. If you haven’t been able to make it out to any of the open houses, take some time to register and head over there to express your opinions on how best to move the Transit plan forward.

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Benched from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

via Ed Brenegar, Bill Kinnon and Andy Crouch

]]> http://www.openottawa.org/benched/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/benched/ CRTC’s Public Policy Consultations Yield Little Feedback http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/394687102/ http://www.openottawa.org/crtcs-public-policy-consultations-yield-little-feedback/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:34:27 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=18 I was reading today Michael Geist’s post on how the CRTC’s online Public Policy consultations failed to attract a large audience. Over the span of a month, the site generated just over 2,500 unique visitors with an average 84 visitors/day. Only 284 Canadians registered with the site, posting a total of 278 comments.Not a fantastic response by any means.

I know the City used the same Nanos Research software to pilot online consultations for the Transit Plan as well as the Design Lansdowne consultations. It would be interesting to see the kind of responses that it experienced for those projects.

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]]> http://www.openottawa.org/fixit-notification-form/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/fixit-notification-form/ FixIt Progress - Screenshots http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/354507039/ http://www.openottawa.org/fixit-progress-screenshots/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:25:18 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=12 Viewing a reportI’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.
Suggestions or comments? Send’em our way.

FixItOttawa - Homepage Viewing a report

]]> http://www.openottawa.org/fixit-progress-screenshots/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/fixit-progress-screenshots/ UK’s Show Us a Better Way http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/354507040/ http://www.openottawa.org/uks-show-us-a-better-way/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:40:42 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=11 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?

]]> http://www.openottawa.org/uks-show-us-a-better-way/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/uks-show-us-a-better-way/ Government 2.0 with Metronauts http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/354507041/ http://www.openottawa.org/government-20-with-metronauts/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:54:13 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=6 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.

]]> http://www.openottawa.org/government-20-with-metronauts/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/government-20-with-metronauts/ Mayor’s Taskforce Report on E-Government http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/354507042/ http://www.openottawa.org/mayors-taskforce-report-on-e-government/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:36:37 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=5 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.

]]> http://www.openottawa.org/mayors-taskforce-report-on-e-government/feed/ http://www.openottawa.org/mayors-taskforce-report-on-e-government/ Ground Control to Major Tom http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/openottawaorg/~3/354507043/ http://www.openottawa.org/ground-control-to-major-tom/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:21:12 +0000 Chris http://www.openottawa.org/?p=3 Just getting the site and base pages together hold tight.

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