ep44 - Announcing the Canadian Open Data Society

Stories from the Open Gov

The Canadian Open Data Society (CODS) is a grassroots movement of passionate people on a mission to raise the awareness of open data in Canada and advocate for its use in all sectors. And today we we discuss its roots and future with three of its Board Members: - Reena Shaw, Data Scientist with Agile Blockchain and Steering Committee Member for the Toronto Machine Learning Summit. - Herb Lainchbury, CEO of Dynamic solutions and founder of Open Data BC. - Derek Alton, a fellow at newspeak house and Canadian public servant. Link to launch event https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canadian-open-data-society-cods-launch-invitation-tickets-122733556371 Time stamps: 1:05 - What is the Canadian Open Data Society and what are its origins? 5:01 - The steps that led to the evolution of the BC Open Data summit into the Canadian Open Data Society 9:58 - Tracey Lauriault’s role in creating the Canadian Open Data Society 11:17 - Formalizing the Canadian Open Data Society steering committee 18:24 - The exciting future of the Canadian Open Data Society 21:30 - Tapping the untapped potential of the Open Data community 29:00 - Beefing about bad Open Data sets 36:42 - What is Open Data’s role in society? Canadian Open Data Society Twitter account twitter.com/opendatasociety Reena Shaw Twitter Account twitter.com/monsoonsavant Herb Lainchbury twitter.com/herblainchbury Derek Alton twitter.com/derekalton Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/