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

[Michael Lenczner]

Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.ca
514-708-5112


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Any reason you say that Chris Moore represent private sector? 15 years as a
municipal CIO means that he has extensive experience within municipal gov
(an important stakeholder) but I agree that he isn't an ideal candidate to
represent civil society. However, I'm glad that he is nominated - just
based on what I know of his understanding of open gov and open data.

>
> 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.
>

It's too bad that there aren't a few organizations that master the
old-school access to data stuff (i.e. CCSD, SCPOs) as well as the new side
of things (metadata, open data portals, developing lightweight standards,
XML/APIs/etc.)  We need a hybrid CCSD / Open North candidate.


> 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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