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Vancouver becomes role model for open source in government

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“Vancouver is the first municipality in Canada to pass
a motion that embraces the “open” city concept. But “we took some
of our lead from Toronto, who did a 1.0 version of a motion last
fall and is looking at rolling some stuff out,” said Reimer. “We’ve
benefited from other cities that have been pieces of similar
initiatives … it’s sort of become an open source motion. Now I
have other cities looking at the motion and saying, ‘How can we use
that and improve upon it and bring in some new policies
ourselves?'” she said.”


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