Update: Vancouver City Council endorsed this motion on May 21, 2009.
Text of the central portion of Andrea Reimer's motion:
Be it resolved that the City of Vancouver endorses the principles of:
* Open and accessible data: The City of Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.
* Open standards: The City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps and other formats of media.
* Open source software: The City of Vancouver, when replacing existing software or considering new applications, will place open source software on an equal footing with commercial systems during procurement cycles.
from: CBCnews.ca
A motion to go before Vancouver City Council to support open standards, open data, open source: http://eaves.ca/2009/05/14/vancouver-enters-the-age-of-the-open-city/
Thanks to Cory Horner and the civicaccess list.
This post is part of the Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement series.
[Disclosure: I am very proud to call Vancouver home!]
