Belgium engages in a process of open data. As requested by the Quebec? 
Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister (Belgium) After France, it's time for Belgium to announce a release of process data (in English "
Open Data ').
Fedict , the Belgian Federal Public Service for Information Technology and Communications, plans to begin operation of online publication in April 2011.
Datanews
relates: "That this announcement was
Bart Hanssens Fedict when twunch (short for lunch and Twitter) hosted by the Minister for Enterprise and Simplification, Vincent Van Quickenborne . He hopes that other utilities will also forward their databases available to this initiative. "
By Order dated February 21, 2011, the French Republic has formalized the project
Etalab , which extend to all levels of government, while Belgium will start with a single public service, hoping that it will generate a domino effect.
Other Belgian government bodies to think, indicates Datanews:
" Testimonies collected twunch, it appeared that Not only Fedict which is occupied to provide data via Internet, but also the Crossroads Bank for Social Security (the motor and the coordinator of e-government in the social sector). However, these data are currently not updated regularly. They are also not easy to process, explore or are available only against payment. This is particularly true of the Crossroads Bank of Enterprises of the FPS Economy, which sells licenses to 100,000 euros for information updated daily. In addition, there are still problems regarding the protection of respect for privacy. "
This therefore
TWO the number of Francophone countries that have demonstrated an interest and commitment to openness of government data.
society is changing rapidly. The resulting challenges require innovative solutions. Hopefully other countries will follow the French no.
can not yet declare that Canada (
a bilingual country with two official languages: English and French. Francophones in Quebec represent 19.5% of Canadians and 81.2% of the Quebec population.) to be part of the list of francophone countries engaged in a release of the data. I spoke recently in this post
efforts by Canadian officials. But officials are not leaders of a country. We therefore expect that even those at the top - the Canadian federal government - decide to take a step forward.
Canada has some municipalities (English), whose data are open. The City of Montreal
, located in the province (mostly French) in Quebec, will decide she soon make an official announcement in this regard? I want to acknowledge the collective efforts of the Montreal
open, making an excellent job of outreach.
Recently, the new Premier of British Columbia,
Christy Clark, made a promise to implement an open government. See my post
about it, and that of Massimo Bergamini
.
[By the way, did you know that British Columbia is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie? This will weigh in the balance within the Francophone world, if this Canadian province is able to implement an open governance.]
The Government of Quebec will decide he turn the corner of the Open Government? The economic
could ensure that the Charest government is interested in open governance. The Quebec government has adopted a Plan
spending cuts and seems determined to achieve its financial goals.
However, something concerns me greatly: the question of transparency. In a philosophy of open government, transparency is a key element.
Yves Boisvert, Professor, ENAP Last month, Yves Boisvert,
professor at the Ecole nationale d'administration publique and author of several books on management Public
said that Quebec has a poor record on government transparency. "
Ontario and the federal government have passed laws in recent years aimed at increasing the transparency of state administration. The Quebec government is still dragging of the foot and maintains a culture of secrecy at the highest levels "
said Jean-Francois Cloutier.
Yves Boisvert noted that the bad example of transparency would come from the top of the ladder, and elected in the first place. "The Charest government
has no political interest in becoming more transparent , "that Mr. Charest refused to call a commission of inquiry into the construction.
Charest seems to want to start fresh, as demonstrated in the opening speech
the second part of the 39th Legislature, delivered on February 23. A new man? I do not believe it. You do not change people, they are what they are. They should also take as they are. The proverb "Shoo
natural and it is galloping " reminds us that we can not fight against the natural inclinations, or at least remove them completely.
Jean Charest, Prime Minister (Quebec) Alain Dubuc La Presse
spoke of the "second beginning
" by Jean Charest. He observed something interesting about this man. This item caught my attention and makes me hope it is possible that open governance was born in Quebec soon. Alain Dubuc
said: "
I wrote several times that it seems that there are two Jean Charest. The first, quite absent, awkward, which is struggling to print a consistency to his team. And second, energetic and driven, manifested especially in adversity. The beginning of the new session may give an opportunity for this other Jean Charest occur. "
is this" other Jean Charest "then he would awaken to the principles of open governance. Over the coming months, politicians from above, the leaders of the administration Charest will show sufficient will to transcend the past and welcome in good faith, transparency, participation and collaboration with citizens' s they want to transform their administration in Open Government.
You must read this article from The Canadian Press about a new directive to federal communications. It is rather astounding. Now, it will replace the words "Government of Canada" with "Harper Government", a new directive of ... uh ... "Harper Government." 
The French develops there worldwide? French is the ninth most spoken language in the world, and the second language taught, with 116 million students, according to the International Organization of la Francophonie. 
