The UK Government’s Power of Information Taskforce are running a mashup competition (a.k.a. “ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated”) with a £20,000 prize fund and gigabytes of brand new data and APIs.

In order to drive innovation, and encourage citizens to build tools and mashups that benefit all citizens, access to some of the raw data behind things like events, trails, mapping data subsets (wards, etc), development planning projects should be provided in addition to what the normal citizen-facing application would normally provide. This provides opportunities for local developers to further enhance and create value with little or no additional cost to the City.

Making Ottawa a wireless city is less costly than most people expect and would make a bold statement about how technology friendly Ottawa really is.

There is no need for paper-work at this city site that provides details on such items as legal descriptions, ownership, and market value, plus payment options.

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‘BizPal’ is an online service that simplifies the process of finding information on business licences and permits at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

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Information for Ontario voters shows poll-by-poll election returns and ‘how to’ guidance on voting by proxy and other services.

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Best practices in the integration of business administration processes are illustrated by a company whose payroll systems pay one in five Canadians

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An example of a full-suite approach to productivity improvement for HR, including payroll, recruitment and training

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