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David Eaves

David Eaves

Writer and public speaker on negotiating, public service, reforming government and open source.
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I Stand for My Rights & Privacy: The Coming Online Police State - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Two Reasons I love blogging: Helping out great communities - http://eaves.ca/2012...
The Exciting Launch of Represent.ca and What It Says About Open Data in Canada - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Requests for Endorsements: My Application to Attend The Open Government Partnership - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Use The Economist’s Data to Find the Best City in the World - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Adapting KUALI financials for cities: Marin County is looking for Partners - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Like me, Canadians prefer Patriots over Giants this sunday (or so says Google data) - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Re: Algorithmic Regulation Spreading Across Government? - http://eaves.ca/2012...
"Geoffrey, Great question. I think at the moment, the answer is no (although there may be free parking after a certain hour) but the capability to do more precise or even real time adjustment to parking fees is built into the system. It also seems as though the system is working - at least from a revenue perspective - more revenue from fees, less from fines according to this article." - David Eaves
Algorithmic Regulation Spreading Across Government? - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Public Servants Self-Organizing for Efficiency (and sanity) – Collaborative Management Day - http://eaves.ca/2012...
My Canadian Open Government Consultation Submission - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Open Data in BC – Good & Bad Examples from Bikes to Libraries - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Oh, the hypocracy… Oilsands, EthicalOil.org and Foreign Funding - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Ethical Oil and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Process - http://eaves.ca/2012...
What I’m Digesting: Good Reads from the First Week of January - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Solving the Common Standards problem in the Open Data Space - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Open Government Advocacy: The Danger of Letting Narrative Trumps Fact - http://eaves.ca/2012...
Re: Open Government Consultation, Twitter Townhalls & Doing Advocacy Wrong - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"Hi Duff, Thank you for the comment. Let me start by answering your first question. I am not presently, nor have ever been paid by the Conservatives, Tony Clement or Treasury Board to consult on their Open Government initiatives. I have given talks to the government on technology, open innovation and public policy - most often with the Information Commissioner - which I list on my public speaking page. Second, none of what you write refutes what I posted in my piece. The meeting in which the commitments need to be presented was not the the one that took place, this meeting is happening in April, also in Brazil. I'm happy to let readers refer to both our pieces and draw their own conclusion, I've nothing to add there and believe I am factually correct. Democracy Watch - which has done a great deal of good advocacy work - was, in this instance, offside in its press release. The only other part of your comment that concerns me is the charge that I "...would applaud the federal..." - David Eaves
When Social Media Experts Don’t Look Beyond Social Media: GoDaddy, Mashable and Kernel - http://eaves.ca/2011...
Re: The Future of Academic Research - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"Thanks! These are great links - it is great to see this stuff. The ArXiv preprint server is particularly cool..." - David Eaves
Re: The Future of Academic Research - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"+1 Mostly agree. While I think the publishers aren't busy trying to solve any problems the real issue lies with the dynamics in the academy..." - David Eaves
Re: The Future of Academic Research - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"Hi CJMacquarrie, Thank you for reading and commenting! Part of me agrees with you and part of me disagrees... I believe and should acknowledge there is a lot of variation around data publishing. Some disciplines have a culture (and technical issues resolved like agreed on data schemas) that mean more data is published and shared. Others, share less. So as a blanket statement, I agree there are a number of readers who may feel it doesn't reflect their experience. However, I still stand by the underlying point for two reasons. First, my suspicion is that as the combination of the competitiveness and likelihood of valuable patents in a field both increase, data sharing diminishes. For example I once met a grad student who marveled at how collaborative fruit fly researchers were with one another compared to their own research community focused on a human specific disease. Part of this is likely cultural, but part of it too, I believe, relates to the two variables described above...." - David Eaves
The Future of Academic Research - http://eaves.ca/2011...
Re: Why is Finding a Post Box so Hard? - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"New update. Apparently the post office data is in Googles Places API which draws the data from... Yellow Pages! That yellow pages is publishing Post Office address data that is over a decade out of date - well that is plain awesome and speaks volumes about the company. Fortunately Google allows users to state where there are errors in the data and then corrects them, so we can make both wherepost.ca and google maps more accurate." - David Eaves
Re: Why is Finding a Post Box so Hard? - http://eaves.ca/2011...
"Well Bill, what is great is that your unhappy comments have made the site better. I've let Steve know that 1901 Hastings st is no longer there. There is however, no such address as 475 Macdonald St. in Vancouver. A word of advice: if you are going to crap on someone's fun project - especially because you don't think they are being accurate - please be sure that you are accurate yourself." - David Eaves
Why is Finding a Post Box so Hard? - http://eaves.ca/2011...
Not Brain Candy: A Review of The Information Diet by Clay Johnson - http://eaves.ca/2011...
Open Government Consultation, Twitter Townhalls & Doing Advocacy Wrong - http://eaves.ca/2011...
Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World - http://eaves.ca/2011...
StatsCan’s free data costs $2M – a rant - http://eaves.ca/2011...
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