Seminar Title: Open Government
Date: March 16, 2016 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: HP5345
Details: Seminar Details (PDF)

Kent Aitken is a part of the open government team for the Government of Canada, and spends a lot of time thinking about government and civil society. He blogs at Canadian Public Service Renewal and can be found on Twitter at @kentdaitken. Kent Aitken & Ashley Casovan Government of Canada

How much of your tax money is spent on government contracts? How much fuel does a car you’re considering buying consume? How many permanent resident visa applications were received in each province? Or, how about this question: if you took the data from Government of Canada Grants and Contributions, could you make a dynamically updated map of where newcomers to Canada can go for community services, for every city in Canada?

Better yet: could you use geo data to make a scale model of the entire region of Niagara in Minecraft?