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| I recently stumbled across Statistic Canada's [http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/about-apropos-eng.htm Data Liberation Initiative]. It's exciting to see this effort and terminology, which is shared with [http://www.dataliberation.org/ Google's humorously themed effort].
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| | For over 30 years, the Menaka Thakkar Dance Company has been a unique treasure in Canada’s dance world. Canada’s oldest Indian dance company exposes audiences to the stunning beauty of traditional Indian dance, while remaining open to other dance cultures in the creation of new works. The company uses the language of many dance styles to re-interpret ancient themes and introduce contemporary concepts. The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company and its Artistic Director, Menaka Thakkar, have earned a reputation for artistic excellence, presenting works that are visually spectacular and infused with drama. |
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| | The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company’s repertoire includes traditional and contemporary works in Bharatanatyam and Odissi, two of seven styles of classical dance in India. As an innovator in the presentation of Indian dance, Menaka Thakkar has also choreographed a number of exciting new works often fusing Indian dance styles with contemporary dance styles from other cultures. |
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| The [http://www.dataliberators.com/ Data Liberation group] provides some good reasons this is important — ''Do you want fair pricing, transparent testing, faster performance, deeper analytics and straight answers?'' Simply, in my mind, public data and even rights to code you access (like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License AGPL]) should be a competitive factor, and in the public service or for anything of massive utility (like Facebook), something we expect.
| | In addition to presenting new works in its Toronto home season, the Company frequently tours across Canada and internationally. In fact, this is the first professional Canadian company of Indian Dance to tour extensively in India, where it has been met enthusiastically in Madras, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bombay. It maintains a program of school residencies through the year and often invites guest dancers and choreographers from other companies from Canada, India, England, and the U.K. |
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| The only problem is the Government's DLI is way too narrow. Right now it's aimed at post secondary institutions. There shouldn't be access categories, the same information should be available to 14 year olds and retired persons that's available to academics or public workers. As well, it's hardly a liberation effort when individuals have to pay to access the information. I don't think we can really say participation and issues such as anti corruption are being seriously addressed until these kinds of issues are resolved, nor can any statements about what "our children" are inheriting be taken seriously. | | The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company is the first professional Indian dance company in Canada to be recognized as part of Canada’s mainstream professional dance companies by the Canada Council which provides annual operating support. |
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| Once this kind of data is released, we can expect greater participation and new forms of employment through crowd sourcing and volunteer efforts (for example, making specialized information easier to understand). There are plenty of civic minded, hobbyist or retired persons who would love to understand work on big problems, and with computers and the Internet any one person or group can achieve so much in their spare time. The trust issues don't really exist, people can learn to not trust a first glance at info just like they have with spam and wikipedia, and digital relationships will become a concrete part of our reality. Of course personal information will be protected, but access to massive correlation alone would make this a breakthrough.
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| I know plenty of individuals and groups who can benefit from this data, so many problems that can be solved so we can move onto bigger ones. After [http://www.zooid.org/~vid/presentations/publicwhip/?p=0070_summary taking a run at it with a friend] (and ultimately failing), [http://michaelmulley.com/ Michael Mulley] has finally got a [http://openparliament.ca/about/ parliament Hansard scraper working], but the amount of effort and reliability will be in jeopardy until this information is ''intentionally'' shared.
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| Some things need to be "offloaded" from the government, which is already straining, to [http://www.helparoundthehouse.ca willing participants], who can solve problems without cost, openly and fairly creating a greater social reality.
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| {{Blikied|April 11, 2010}}
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