Edmonton/ Open Government creating a cultural shift -- Transit, health care, and all services

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• How does Open Data enable cultural change in government policy?
• Open Transit
• How can health care use open data to connect with community?
• How do you ensure data accuracy/integrity?

Does Open Data enable cultural change?

• With open data there is increased:

     + Transparency
     + Openness
     + Accountability
     + Empowerment 

• Open data can allow governments to become more consultative
• There are more possibilities of a two-way conversation
• Better public records are being kept
• With open data you can get more complete perspectives

• There are a lot of possibilities for open transit
• Buslink SMS- demand and trending
• Ridership data provided
• Reporting on the experience
• Transit security -- text to report
• What sort of alerts can be provided?

• Health care services can benefit from the use of an open data catalogue
• text messages can send two-way information and provide assistance
• what types of info can be provided? And at what level?
• at what level do you make data anonymous?
• Can this data catalogue help with research?

• accuracy and integrity of data can be maintained through crowdsourcing
• there are existing auditing systems that can be used.