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The Geothink partnership is a great opportunity for academics to work directly with those organizations pushing the leading edge of our field. Last fall, University of Waterloo student Erin Bryson held a co-op placement working at Montreal-based non-profit (and Geothink partner) OpenNorth.

I recently had the pleasure of working on a new project called “Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository”, with Dr. Britta Ricker, University of Washington-Tacoma, and Sara Harrison, a recently-graduated MES student from Waterloo.

A new paper by PhD Candidate Simone Philpot has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management!

Looking forward to some sun (or fog) in California! Myself and two group members, Sara Harrison and Qing Lu are off to present at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in San Francisco.

I’ve recently been successful with obtaining five years of funding from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award (ERA). This generous funding will allow me to measure the value and impact of open data initiatives, assessing how open data is accessed, used, and exploited.

At long last, a team publication from the GEOIDE grant The Participatory Geoweb has been published in ACME journal.

I’ve co-authored an exciting new paper with Dr. Renee Sieber from McGill University. It is currently online first with Government Information Quarterly. With this piece we take a look at the dominant models of open data provision by government and start to lay out what the challenges are for delivering open data.

This is a guest post by graduate student Qing (Lucy) Liu about her team’s experience at the Esri Canada App Challenge:

The ECCE App Challenge is a coding completion held by Esri Canada. Started in February 27, 2015, teams of participants were given one week to develop an innovative app using open data and Esri software. The apps to be developed should be on some aspect of government services in Canada, for any of the following themes:

I’ve recently been fortunate to be awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, along with Dr. Pamela Robinson from Ryerson University and Dr. Renee Sieber from McGill University, to Establish the Value of Open Data. This grant runs for two years and aims to:

This post is by PhD student Simone Philpot on her recent experience attending the Canadian Water Network Conference 2015.

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Aligning Canadian open data programs with international best practices – Geothink.ca and OpenNorth

Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository

New paper: Strategic analysis of a water rights conflict in the south western United States

Group members at AAG 2016: San Francisco

Measuring the value and impact of open data: Recruiting doctoral students

New publication: Evolving relationships in community participatory geoweb projects

Civic open data at a crossroads: Dominant models and current challenges

Esri Canada Centres of Excellence (ECCE) App Challenge 2015

SSHRC Insight Development Grant Award: Establishing the Value of Open Data

The Canadian Water Network conference: “from knowledge to action”