This Canada Day, buy your country a beer.
Posted by admin on 2009-07-01 08:04:58
Happy Canada Day! This Canada Day, treat your country to a beer. VisibleGovernment.ca is launching its first ever fundraising drive, ’Beers for Canada’. For the price of a beer, you can help VisibleGovernment.ca build tools to promote transparency and encourage our leaders to share more information openly.
Where will your beer money go?
The funds raised by the Beers for Canada effort will be used for:
- Creating new tools and websites that encourage more open communication between government and citizens.
- Launching the Code For Canada application design competition that awards prizes to people who build web, facebook, and iPhone apps that provide visualization, analysis, and access to federal government data sets.
- Working with other open government organizations like The Sunlight Foundation in the U.S. and MySociety in the U.K. to bring tools they’ve created to Canadian screens, and to share Canadian-made applications with others.
- Encouraging government openness in public forums, helping government organizations to share their data, showcasing examples of open government, and promoting the benefits of transparency in public office.
All it takes is a visit to www.beersforcanada.com this Canada Day holiday to help connect public officials to the general public. Have a great holiday and enjoy your beverages responsibly.
