[CivicAccess-discuss] CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 82, Issue 13
Tracey P. Lauriault
tlauriau at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 06:24:46 AEST 2014
Thanks Claire!
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, Claire Woodside <cwoodside at pwyp.ca> wrote:
> Some of you may have heard about Canada's commitment to require the
> mandatory disclosure of payments to governments both in Canada and abroad
> by
> Canadian mining oil and gas companies. Recently, the Canadian government,
> led by NRCAN. concluded a round of consultations that included written
> submissions. This consultation process involved the treasury board as they
> are going to be proposing to include mandatory payment reporting as an
> action plan commitment in Canada's Action Plan 2.0. Unfortunately of the 46
> written submissions, only 8 have been made public. Which is disappointing
> and which we believe contravenes the spirit and guidelines of the OGP.
>
> Interestingly, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is not
> really
> opposing the disclosure of payments to foreign countries, but does not want
> to disclose payments to sub-federal jurisdictions in Canada - in addition
> to
> a host of other concerns.
>
> If you have thoughts on why Canada's needs sub-federal disclosure of
> payments by mining, oil, and gas companies to governments. It would be
> great
> if you could express those as a comment in the post we have made on
> data.gc.ca's idea dialogue
> http://data.gc.ca/eng/Transparency_Mining_Oil_Gas_Sectors.
>
> CAPP's submission can be found here:
> http://data.gc.ca/sites/default/files/5a-capp.pdf and all the others here:
>
> http://data.gc.ca/eng/content/comments-received-response-consultation-mandat
> ory-reporting-standards-extractive-sector
>
> Cheers,
>
> Claire
>
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> 1. New tool for Canadians to learn whether telecoms collecting
> info about them (Gerry Tychon)
> 2. Why archives are important to Open Data (Tracey P. Lauriault)
> 3. You gotta love this - how to better use admin data to improve
> public policy (Tracey P. Lauriault)
> 4. Re: New tool for Canadians to learn whether telecoms
> collecting info about them (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:26:26 -0600
> From: Gerry Tychon <gerry at tychon.ca <javascript:;>>
> To: civicaccess discuss <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca <javascript:;>
> >
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] New tool for Canadians to learn whether
> telecoms collecting info about them
> Message-ID: <539F7D22.2050404 at tychon.ca <javascript:;>>
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> New tool for Canadians to learn whether telecoms collecting info about them
>
>
> https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tool-canadians-learn-whether-telecoms-collecting-t
> hem-170614253.html
> to prepare a formal request letter:
> https://openmedia.ca/myinfo
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>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:06:24 +0100
> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <tlauriau at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> To: civicaccess discuss <CivicAccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca <javascript:;>
> >
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Why archives are important to Open Data
> Message-ID:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/science/computing-crime-and-punishment.htm
> l?emc=edit_th_20140617&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=58777860
> fantastic discovery of how disciplining and punishing changed overtime and
> how a liking for state based violence declined.
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
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> The power of administrative data - Royal Statistical Society of Glasgow
>
> Summary: Scotland has some of the best administrative data in the world
> > (e.g. health, social care, housing, education and criminal justice).
> > However, these data are not being fully exploited: to ensure our
> > social policies are designed to respond to multiple disadvantage; our
> > public services are as efficient as possible; and that these data are
> > mobilised to support economic growth. This lecture will explore some
> > of the reasons for the under-utilisation of administrative data and
> > chart some of the new initiatives which aim to release these data's
> potential.
> >
>
>
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/events/headline_3308
> 66_en.html
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
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> nice one!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Gerry Tychon <gerry at tychon.ca
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > New tool for Canadians to learn whether telecoms collecting info about
> > them
> >
> > https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tool-canadians-learn-whether-
> > telecoms-collecting-them-170614253.html
> > to prepare a formal request letter:
> > https://openmedia.ca/myinfo
> >
> >
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
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