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By Things Are Good on Oct 24, 2022 in: politics
In fact, if you live in Ontario then you should get out and vote in your local municipal election. The municipal level is where people feel the impact of government the most since it literally impacts our day to day existence. Want more transportatio...
Until now, Google has had to build Fiber's gigabit networks the hard way, either from scratch or by making deals to use some existing lines. It's about to try something new, though: the search firm is bringing Fiber to Huntsville, Alabama b...
Competition is good, especially when it comes to internet service providers. Unfortunately, it's also rare. According to the White House's community-based broadband report released earlier this year (PDF), 75 percent of customers looking fo...
By eaves.ca on Oct 16, 2013 in: technology, vancouver, design
I’m MCing the Code for America Summit at the moment, so short on time to write a post, but I’m just LOVING StreetMix so much I had to give it a shout out. If you are a councillor, urban planner or community activist, StreetMix is a site y...
By eaves.ca on Dec 23, 2012 in: cities, government
I’ve always felt that a lot of innovation happens where resources are scarcest. Scarcity forces us to think differently, to be efficient and to question traditional (more expensive) models. This is why I’m always interested to see how loc...
By eaves.ca on Feb 1, 2012
Yesterday The Economist Intelligence Unit and Buzzdata launched a $10,000 contest to help enhance The Economist's "Best city in the world" index. Yes. It's a data and visualization competition to identify the best city in the world to live. As part o...
Readers of my blog will be familiar Kuali - the coalition of universities that co-create a suite software core to their operations - as I've blogged about several times and argued that it is a powerful model for local governments interested in reth...