Posts By David Eaves

The problem with the UBB debate

I reley dont wan to say this, but I have to now. This debate isso esey! Really, it is. The back and forth for and against UBB has – for me – sadly so missed the mark on the real issue it is beyond frustrating. It’s been nice to see a voice or two likeRead… Read more »

Egypt: Connected to revolution

This piece is cross-posted from the Opinion Page of the Toronto Star which was kind enough to publish it this morning. Over the weekend something profound happened. The Egyptian government, confronted with growing public unrest, attempted to disconnect itself. It shut down its cellular and telephone networks and unplugged from the Internet. It was aRead… Read more »

How Yelp Could Help Save Millions in Health Care Costs

Okay, before I dive in, a few things. 1) Sorry for the lack of posts last week. Life’s been hectic. Between Code for America, a number of projects and a few articles I’m trying to get through, the blogging slipped. Sorry. 2) I’m presenting on Open Data and Open Government to the Canadian Parliament AccessRead… Read more »

What Canada’s Realtors could learn from Canada’s Lawyers

Lawyer’s aren’t generally known to be the most technologically forwarding looking group – but here in Canada they have done one thing really, really well. Making radically efficient the transaction costs around sharing critical information regarding their industry. CanLI – the non-profit managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada has the goal “toRead… Read more »

What I’m doing at Code for America

For the last two weeks – and for much of January – I’m in San Francisco helping out with Code for America. What’s Code for America? Think Teach for America, but rather than deploying people into classrooms to help provide positive experiences for students and teachers while attempting to shift the culture of school districts,Read… Read more »

Honourable Mention! The Mozilla Visualization Challenge Update

Really pleased to share that Diederik and I earned an honourable mention for our submission to the Mozilla Open Data Competition. For those who missed it – and who find opendata, open source and visualization interesting – you can read a description of and see images from our submission to the competition in this blogRead… Read more »

A Response to a Ottawa Gov 2.0 Skeptic

So many, many months ago a Peter R. posted this comment (segments copied below) under a post I’d written titled: Prediction, The Digital Economy Strategy Will Fail if it Isn’t Drafted Collaboratively on GCPEDIA. At first blush Peter’s response felt aggressive. I flipped him an email to say hi and he responded in a veryRead… Read more »

Canada’s Secret Open Data Strategy?

Be prepared for the most boring sentence to an intriguing blog post. The other night, I was, as one is want to do, reading through a random Organization for Economic Coordination and Development report entitled Towards Recovery and Partnership with Citizens: The Call for Innovative and Open Government. The report was, in fact, a summaryRead… Read more »