Information & Ethics committee  We had just very basic information, so people never went there. Quite frankly--

Information & Ethics committee  In that area, talking about meeting management and looking it up--

Information & Ethics committee  --on this one particular view. And now, today, we have it available on BlackBerry. You can look at the calendar and have a two-way street semantic calendar. In other words, it's not just PDFs anymore of reports you could download and somehow work your way through. You have a ve

Information & Ethics committee  I'll give you an example of where we actually used some Web 2.0 technology once we got a certain sense on Jarvis Street of what people were feeling about how the streetscape should change. There was a project going on to change how the streetscape was going to look—the removal of

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very good question. There's no question that it opens up the doors, but they get many, many calls today in more traditional means, I'll call them, many, many e-mails, which they never actually get to. In this way, if people are more informed and can ask questions and be

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think I understand it. Let me know if I don't answer your question. I don't think there's anything ever wrong with opening up the doors wider.

Information & Ethics committee  The fact is that at the municipal level there are many people who come and do deputations. They get five minutes and they make their point. They've been doing that since town hall meetings, and now, in the electronic age, we're engaging them through this meeting management system

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's a very good question. As David was saying, this is all new. In our budget world, we've always produced budget reports, usually in PDF; they're nice to look at, but you can't do much with them. If you wanted to use the data, you'd have to then be a programmer, scrap

Information & Ethics committee  Again, we're just starting in this space where there's this two-way street. I think what people are saying is, in our case, where are those efficiencies? Could there be more efficiencies? Maybe I've got an idea on some type of service delivery that we could do in the community th

Information & Ethics committee  In Toronto, back in 2008, we didn't know the surprising power of Web 2.0, Gov 2.0. Open data was just starting to become a popular term, although proactive routine exposure nomenclature had been around for quite a long time. We planned a summit, and I partnered with Sue Corke, o

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity for speaking with you today. I'm very much looking forward to the discussion this afternoon. I believe you received the brief that I sent forward, so I'm just going to centre on some select slides to emphasize the messaging and to ac