Sentences with phrase «wjp open government»

Doubling of the Treasury Board's budget for open data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five years for these activities.

Companies involved in fields ranging from health care to climate modeling have already tapped into the potential from open government data.

Targeting low - income high school / college students who are interested in coding, open government, and civic technology, the program offers mentoring, programming courses, resource access and an internship.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

To advocates of open government, these words were pure music.

From the viewpoint of open government, 2002's Bill 66 is one of the most praiseworthy — if unheralded — of all measures implemented by the Liberal government.

Butcher said it was still a mystery why the BC Liberals paid Bonney - hired ethnic outreach worker Sarrafpour through Bonney's numbered company and he agreed with St. Pierre that it was ironic for Bonney to work in a ministry that included the words «open government» on its shingle.

Our new Open Government Plan 4.1 includes several high - profile agency projects and initiatives that utilize Open Government principles and techniques to further the agency's mission.

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We develop and publish SSA's Open Government Plan every two years — the first in June 2010.

Tony Clement has unveiled the Harper government's Action Plan on Open Government.

Less than a week after Tony Clement announces the Harper government's open government action plan, Tom Spears explains precisely how far the government has to go.

Tony Clement says — while participating in an open government conference — that the Harper government won't be able to detail the latest round of budget cuts until next year.

Public servants, politicians from multiple levels of government and open government enthusiasts gathered Thursday to talk about citizen engagement and how to include the public in the policymaking process.

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On September 8, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA)'s program «Emerging Citizen Technology» hosted a workshop titled «Emerging Technology and Open Data for a More Open Government.»

This is about ritualistic prayer opening a government meeting.

In Phoenix, lawmakers decided to ban prayer altogether instead of allowing a Satanic Temple member from opening the government gathering.

Most Crown copyright information can be re-used under the Open Government Licence -LRB-[1] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/o....

This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

«These are laudable goals, according to many economists, but above all it shares a very special affinity with the Open Government Partnership OGP which carries with it huge financial relief for governments that are able to meet its conditions.

e) Re-commit to open government and open data — in the coming years, transparency will be one of the key mechanisms by which the government can explain what it is doing, and ordinary people can feel they are well informed about the changes to come.

The company is focusing on defending its actions in China, using the regulatory system to «encourage» rivals such as Microsoft to make changes in business practices, defending its acquisition of companies such as DoubleClick from anti-trust accusations, and working to open government information to searches.

«I promised a transparent and open government, and by being here today and laying out the documents and discussing from the beginning to the end what occurred and taking some pretty substantial measures by relieving a long - time employee of his responsibilities here in the County of Monroe, I want the people in Monroe County to know that I will not tolerate this type of behavior,» Dinolfo said.

Think of it as big data and open government meet Charity Navigator and Guidestar.

Cuomo met with Co-Chairs Bill Lipton, Karen Scharff and Executive Director Dan Cantor on Dec. 4, according to the schedules posted on Cuomo's open government website.

Government databases should be designed to be interoperable with other government databases and with outside data — which as NAF's Sascha Meinrath pointed out has the potential to open government to real crowdsourcing.

Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, had pledged to strengthen the Assembly's open government regulations after he was elected speaker in February, replacing Sheldon Silver, who is under indictment.

This photo is a perfect (though minor) illustration of open government in action, showing what happens when citizens get an unvarnished look at public servants at work.

The Conservatives resisted this, but promised further implementation of the proposals from «Open Government».

I was on a job interview recently and was asked to define «open government,» the movement to make government transparent and accountable to citizens.

That would not be open government, and it would not be accountable government.

Following the talking out of Mark Fisher's Right to Know Bill in 1992, in 1993 the Government published its White Paper «Open Government».

An independent arbiter, the state's Committee on Open Government, gave an opinion last week saying that the administration was beyond its rights in denying Capital's request.

Last week was Sunshine Week; an annual celebration of the benefits of open government and how to safeguard and expand upon current transparency laws.

The hearing will be webcast, and feature a star studded list of top technologists and govtech thinkers from in and outside of government, including international open government guru Beth Noveck, and NYC Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne.

We join the State Committee on Open Government's urgent call for New York State to seize the power of Information Technology to achieve the intent of the Freedom of Information Law.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

«Instead he chose to veto two mom and apple pie bills which were requested by Bob Freeman, the state's own open government director.

It ended with Governor Cuomo vetoing two bills which had been supported by the Committee on Open Government.

Capital appealed this denial on October 6, and sought an advisory opinion from Committee on Open Government Executive Director Bob Freeman, an independent state body charged with promoting transparency and offering advisory opinions that carry weight in court.

Both proposals originated with the state's Committee on Open Government.

In another case where Margaret Chin set aside Progressive principles of transparency and open government, we find that 183 East Broadway, owned by Ching Sun «Norman» Wong, was built in contravention of building code.

Along with newly appointed Technology Chair Jimmy Vaca, Kallos's support will be crucial for advancing open government legislation and oversight in Council.

The full text of FOIL and other information about the law is available at the New York State Committee on Open Government's website.

«Sunshine Week» makes it clear that it is important to maintain an open government, in order to ensure the proper relationship between public officials and the citizens they are pledged to serve.

The NYS Committee on Open Government has formally reaffirmed that public records compiled in the normal course of government activity have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Law, even if those records are later the subjects of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The State open records law requires that requested records be released within 20 Business Days, according to a guidance document provided by the New York State Committee on Open Government.

Maybe, the Ashanti regional minister needs to be reminded that Ghana is a nation governed by laws and not on whims of self conceited government appointees who take instructions from political simpletons; may he be reminded once again that, through this act of indiscretion, he is effectively opening the government up for huge legal liabilities that may culminate in the payment of huge government debt.

«That database is limited,» said Robert Freeman, the executive director of the Committee on Open Government.