12. • Open and Accessible Data - the City of
Vancouver will freely share with citizens,
businesses and other jurisdictions the
greatest amount of data possible while
respecting privacy and security concerns;
• Open Standards - the City of Vancouver
will move as quickly as possible to adopt
prevailing open standards for data, documents,
maps, and other formats of media;
• Open Source Software - the City of
Vancouver, when replacing existing software or
considering new applications, will place open
source software on an equal footing with
commercial systems during procurement cycles;
and
13. The City of Vancouver (City) now grants
you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-
exclusive licence to use, modify, and
distribute the datasets in all current
and future media and formats for any
lawful purpose.
You now acknowledge that this licence
does not give you a copyright or other
proprietary interest in the datasets.
If you distribute or provide access to
these datasets to any other person,
whether in original or modified form,
you agree to include a copy of, or this
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for,
these Terms of Use and to ensure they
agree to and are bound by them but
without introducing any further
restrictions of any kind.
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17. Why Cities?
1. Resource constrained – looking for
help
2. Driven by economic development
3. Many actors – lots of diversity
4. Faster cycles (more frequent
elections)
5. Close to electorate
6. Smaller, more manageable
7. No illusions of cost recovery
8. Coder population
33. Lessons for other jurisdictions
1.Local efforts/experimentation
2.Staff not politicians are critical
3.Create disruptive innovators (whose
career is not on the line)
4.Don’t have a budget – use OS
34. thinkliketheweb.org
www.eaves.ca
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