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"One missed opportunity was to shine the spotlight on the principle of "openness" as a guiding principle. In recent years, an open approach has found increasing favour for a broad range of technology policy issues and has been incorporated into many strategy documents. For example, New Zealand identified "openness is a central principle of [its] Digital Strategy 2.0."

"This site aims to make some of that information more easily accessible, and to encourage transparency in government. This site is a volunteer, spare-time effort of mine. I built it because I think Parliament's goings-on are important-alternately fascinating, boring, and depressing, but important-and because I believe that public information should be meaningfully public, which today means shareable and computer-readable."

""Of course we should know how our representatives are representing us, of course we should be able to see what's being done with our tax dollars," Mulley writes on the site. "But, as information and data become increasingly synonymous, making information available isn't enough. To be useful, it has to be usable. It has to be freely available, in a flexible digital format. It has to be open.""

Hackfest 2010

"If Toronto opened up its data, any number of wonderful things could happen. That was the promise from open data activists --. After much pressure and a NOW cover story on the subject, Toronto opened up some data. So now, where are all those wonderful things that were promised? David Eaves, Canada's open government advocate, has a few ideas why a movement with an impressive wingspan has yet to fly."