From: Michael Lenczner <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:56 PM Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] opening up information & referral data To: civicaccess discuss <[email protected]>
Hi folks, I just wrote a blog entry on opening information & referral data that I thought some of you might find interesting. http://poweredbydata.org/banking-on-open-referral/ It's a more nuanced issue than the normal open data case, since it's not government data, but information that is currently being collected by non-profits and, in many cases, sold to social service agencies and municipalities to bring in revenues. But it's a key part of the information infrastructure of the non-profit sector and we're sure that it needs to be available as open data in structured formats for the sector to move forward. Hope everyone's having a good summer, and a big welcome back to Canada to Tracey, who has just returned from two years of a post-doc in Ireland and who will be starting her new job at Carleton in the fall. Michael Lenczner CEO, Ajah http://www.ajah.ca 514-708-5112 _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/2zva38mG8CAD7uyL9JATv5 Leave group mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Unsubscribe
