Vancouver mulls making itself an 'open city'

[ Thanks to Vikram for this link. ]

"The motion calls for the city to endorse the principles of:

* Making data open and accessible by sharing as much of it as possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.

* Adopting open standards for data, documents, maps and other media.

* Placing open source software on equal footing with "commercial systems."

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