In my latest podcast I talk with David Eaves about a recent initiative by the Canadian city of Vancouver. The May Motion, of which David was a co-author, calls upon the city to embrace Open Source and Open Standards, and to make much of the city’s data Openly available for use and reuse. We discuss the background to the Motion, and consider some of the uses to which municipal data might usefully be put.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 311
• Canada25
• data.gov
• EveryBlock
• Jim Hendler
• OpenWeb Vancouver
• Public Sector Information Directive
• ReadWriteWeb’s Coverage of Vancouver’s vote
• David Weinberger

This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 July, 2009.

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