[CivicAccess-discuss] Oldish(?) news: Canadian candidates for the OGP steering committee

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

It is unfortunate that we do not have solid civil society representation.

Toby Mendel is excellent, but represents the legal side of things only and
to the best of my knowledge brings his organization's point of view forward
but not that domain of civil society actors more broadly.

Chris Moore is also great, but hardly represents civil society, private
sector maybe, which was a big contingent at OGP EU Regional meetings in
Dublin.

We need someone or an organization that can parlay public policy, open
data, open access, and ngos who are data users but not engaged in open data
app development necessarily, but is savvy enough to navigate those waters.
It would also be great to have someone who is considered a representative,
someone civil society has nominated or who can stand behind, who has a
national understanding of the issues but also sub-national and who may
consult with key stakeholders and bring their concerns forward.

We did that somewhat when Harvey Low from the Canadian Council on Social
Development and the FCM went to Brazil, and we conducted some consultations
by conference call and email, but even that was minimal in terms of
consultation at best.

Cheers
t


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michael Lenczner <michael at ajah.ca> wrote:

> 2 Canadians on the list of civil society candidates for the for the OGP
> Steering Committee. If you're interested, you can dig around more on that
> site for more info including CVs and letters of nomination (url below).
>
> There's been no update since June 30th, 2014 - so maybe this is already
> decided and I'm not aware. I hope one (or more) of the Canadians make the
> cut, though.
>
> Chris Moore
> (former Chief Information Officer of the city of Edmonton)
>
> Toby Mendel
> (Centre for Law & Democracy)
>
> And Panthea Lee - applying for either Canada or Taiwan (it's unclear).
> Reboot
>
>
>
> http://www.ogphub.org/blog/here-are-the-37-candidates-for-the-ogp-steering-committee/
>
>
> Michael Lenczner
> CEO, Ajah
> http://www.ajah.ca
> 514-708-5112
>
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