On February 27, we hosted a webinar with our colleagues at Canadian non-profit Open North designed to help city staff collaborate more with community residents on open data. The recording of the webinar is now available on-demand in this post.
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For city data to have the biggest impact, it needs to be open and it needs to involve residents. For many city staff, this can be unfamiliar, unclear, or even intimidating. How can city staff recognize these fears, understand the powerful potential of public collaboration, and cultivate that power to create a robust and enduring open data program? Join us for a webinar conversation with Canadian nonprofit OpenNorth about two models for what engaged, collaborative data publication and use looks like.
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Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, gave a very interesting talk (audio and slide show available) at last... View Article
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