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So What is Open Government Anyway? City of Toronto: Practicing the philosophy: Part 2

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Province of Ontario Access and Privacy Day Session April 15, 2013 The City of Toronto outlines some of its initiatives to be more open and transparent, including the use of open data.
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Wish List • Planning data• Building outlines/3D • Fire hydrant locations• Recreation programs: # of

spaces, registrations – by location, program

• Pool hours• Drinking fountains• Dispatch history for Fire

calls• Food bank locations• Social housing locations

• Public complaints about businesses

• Permit parking• Winterlicious • City HR info: years of

service, retirement eligibility -- by division

• City trees• Zoning• Crime data• Sidewalks• 211 info

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City of Toronto Open Data

• website: toronto.ca/open• e-mail: [email protected]• twitter: @Open_TO• Google Group: DataTO

Nancy Isozaki: [email protected], Corporate Information PolicyCorporate Management Services, City Clerk’s Office

Trish Garner: [email protected]; @trishgarnerManager, Web Strategy + Open DataInformation + Technology

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The Zen of Open Data Open is better than closed.

Transparent is better than opaque. Simple is better than complex.

Accessible is better than inaccessible. Sharing is better than hoarding.

Linked is more useful than isolated. Fine grained is preferable to aggregated.

Optimise for machine readabilityBarriers prevent worthwhile things from happening.‘Flawed, but out there’ is a million times better than

‘perfect, but unattainable’. Opening data up to thousands of eyes makes the data better.

-- Chris McDowell


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