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Friday, March 12, 2010

Vancouver's councillors voted Thursday to freely share city data online (respecting privacy and security concerns) in document formats that most people would be able to open on their home computers.

They took this decision as they realised that people pay them to collect data, so it is the people's right to have access to those data.

Teresa Marshall, director of Toxic Free Canada, was one of a dozen people who spoke in favour of opening up the city’s data.

She said the information could be used to help map “toxic hotspots.”

“It will put the citizens of Vancouver in a really strong empowered position to find out what is … in our neighbourhoods that could be a potential risk or harm to ourselves and our families.”

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Author: Ines Raluca Prodan

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Date:05/22/2009

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