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Judges rap Wiki-evidence in immigration cases
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| Federal officials have quoted a
| questionable source in bids to kick
| foreigners out of Canada â Wikipedia. And
| judges are not amused.
|
| âWikipedia is an internet Encyclopedia
| which anyone with Internet access can
| edit,â wrote one exasperated Federal Court
| judge, criticizing Ottawaâs filings in a
| case to remove a family of Turkish asylum
| seekers.
|
| âIt is an open-source reference with no
| editorial control,â scoffed another judge,
| as he took federal agents to task for
| consulting Wikipedia before sending an
| immigrant back to Iran.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/judges-rap-wiki-evidence-in-immigration-cases/article1542565/
Open Source: Free the Data!
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| OâReillyâs goal now is to free the data.
| Something that will be easier said than
| done.
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http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=1125
Opening up Ottawa
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| The new open government is one which offers
| information in easy-to-organize formats.
| That is, making schedules or meeting
| minutes that used to be buried at the
| bottom of a .PDF into accessible,
| searchable data.
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=174669
Vancouver City Hall's Open Data Experiment
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| When Arthur Dent, of The Hitch-hiker's
| Guide to the Galaxy, searched for the
| notice that his house was to be demolished
| to make way for a new bypass, he eventually
| found it on the bottom of a locked filing
| cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign
| on the door saying, 'Beware of the
| Leopard.'
|
| Governments, large and small, generate vast
| amounts of information. Finding the
| relevant piece of information in a timely
| fashion is a challenge, and that's assuming
| that the government has decided to share it
| with the public at all.
|
| Over the past year, Vancouver's city
| government has launched a program to make
| large amounts of information to the public.
| These data sets, posted online at
| data.vancouver.ca, include garbage pickup
| schedules, drinking fountains and
| motorcycle parking, in a wide variety of
| formats
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http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/04/26/OpenDataExperiment/
Share Exchange: A Community Center for
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| The goal of the Share Exchange is to
| aggregate sharing tools in a central,
| persistent place in the community to
| catalyze a green local economy. If the
| successes of coworking and The Hub social
| enterprise community centers are any guide,
| the Share Exchange may be onto to
| something. The lesson of The Hub is that
| grounding a movement in a shared physical
| place adds tremendous value.
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http://shareable.net/blog/the-share-exchange-a-community-center-for-sharing
Open Access to Development Data: The World Bankâs New Open Data Initiative
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| The World Bank announced this week a new
| open data initiative, which provides free
| and open access to the Bankâs health and
| development data, including 2,000 social,
| economic, financial, institutional, and
| environmental indicators. The World
| Development Indicators, the Bankâs most
| popular statistical resource, consist of
| over 900 indicators for 200 countries
| alone, including many that go back to 1960.
| The Bank has also opened up access to the
| Global Development Finance, Africa
| Development Indicators, Global Economic
| Monitor, and indicators from the Doing
| Business Report.
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http://everyone.plos.org/2010/04/27/open-access-to-development-data-the-world-bank%E2%80%99s-new-open-data-initiative/
Web Site Is Building a Searchable Index of Open Courseware
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| About 1,800 courses, all from the
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology are
| indexed on OCW Search for starters, says
| the operator, Pierre Far. Polling on the
| Web site, which went online this week, will
| determine what courses to add next; those
| at Stanford University are in the lead, and
| Mr. Far plans to add them in the next few
| days.
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http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Web-Site-Is-Building-a/23417/
The "fair use economy" is enormous, growing, and endangered by the relatively tiny entertainment industry
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| The IT industry's US lobby group has
| released a report calculating the size of
| the "fair use economy" in the US -- all the
| businesses that rely on fair use, including
| web hosting companies, private schools,
| search engines and many others. The total
| for 2007 (the last year for which stats are
| available) is a whopping $4.7 trillion --
| one sixth of US GDP -- with over 17 million
| people employed.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/27/the-fair-use-economy.html
Conservatives promise to extend FOI Act
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| The Conservatives have promised to extend
| the scope of the Freedom of Information Act
| within weeks of the general election.
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http://foia.blogspot.com/2010/04/conservatives-promise-to-extend-foi-act.html
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