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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in British Columbia.
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- eGovernment - British Columbia - Archive
- Archived articles and resources about egovernment activities in British Columbia.
Added: 17 November 2005
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- The Government of British Columbia Selects Clarabridge to Improve Voice of the Citizen Initiative
- Enhanced Understanding of Citizen Feedback Provides Increased Public Participation in Democratic Decision Making. Press release, Reston, Va., May 14, 2012 (Business Wire) -- "Clarabridge, Inc., the leading provider of sentiment and text analytics for Customer Experience Management (CEM), has been selected by the Province of British Columbia to enable faster theming and categorization of feedback and other unstructured text as part of the ongoing Citizen Engagement program. The technology will be rolled out to all ministries by mid-summer..."
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- BC launches powerful job search portal
- By CO Staff. Canada One, Published May 9, 2012. "BC — Calling it a "BC first", the government has launched a free job portal, WorkBC.ca. Job postings are free, but there is an interesting twist on the typical sign-up process. To create an account to post a job employers must enter their Business Number (BN). Those who don't have one are directed to a page that explains how to register a business in BC..."
Added: 11 May 2012;
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- B.C. ranked first in Canada for eGovernment
- Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release, 2012LCITZ0009-000506, April 19, 2012. "Victoria – Minister of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government Margaret MacDiarmid congratulated B.C.'s Open Government team today for achieving the number-one ranking in Canada for eGovernment, in a new study released yesterday by the Stratford Institute. The Province's top overall ranking is the result of the Stratford Institute's first-ever national evaluation of government's online presence. The criteria evaluated included customer service in online services, information-sharing and online-engagement efforts. B.C. earned high marks across all categories to secure the overall number-one ranking..."
Added: 23 April 2012;
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- B.C. first to release provincial budget as Open Data
- Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release, March 20, 2012. "Victoria – The Province of British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to release data from its provincial budget as open data announced Minister of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government Margaret MacDiarmid. The Ministry of Finance has released the 62 machine-readable datasets as part of Premier Christy Clark's commitment to Open Government..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- Unlocking our data to save lives
- Analyzing existing electronic health care records could help B.C. residents and save the province billions in costs, by Colin Hansen, Vancouver Sun, March 14, 2012. "In British Columbia we are over-looking a vault of public treasure. If we allowed people we trust to open it, and analyze the treasure within, we could save thousands of lives and, potentially, billions of dollars in B.C. alone. This treasure is in the form of electronic data collected over many decades, under the stewardship of successive provincial governments, on everything from hospital admissions to doctor visits and prescriptions filled by every pharmacist in this province. It's one of the best collections of health data anywhere in the world..."
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- my ehealth subscribers exceed 200,000
- British Columbians enjoy direct access to their laboratory results with this rapidly expanding service. Vancouver, March 13, 2012 /CNW/ - "More than 200,000 patients in British Columbia have now registered for my ehealth to obtain their laboratory results directly via a secure patient portal: myehealth.ca. This is a major milestone since direct patient access to their personal health care information is a major shift in health care system management and a key component of the electronic health record vision for Canada..."
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- B.C. earns Silver for Open Government
- Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release, February 14, 2012. "Victoria – Minister of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government Margaret MacDiarmid congratulated British Columbia's Open Government team today for winning the silver medal at this year's Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)/Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Awards. The Province earned the award for work done to develop and implement B.C.'s Open Government policy, and recognizes the Province's outstanding leadership and contributions to advancements in public policy and management..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- Surgical Wait Times
- Provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Health. "This new website is designed to offer you more information about wait times for elective surgical procedures in British Columbia for adults aged 19 and older... Please note that this site reports on wait times for adult elective surgery done in publicly-funded facilities. It does not include emergency surgeries as emergency patients are not wait listed nor does it show paediatric wait times at this time. The wait times are calculated from the Operating Room Booking Form received date to the date of the completion of surgery and are collected through the Surgical Patient Registry..."
Added: 8 February 2012;
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- Mobile app helps users locate health services in B.C.
- Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government. News Release, February 6, 2012. "COQUITLAM – The Province today unveiled a mobile application, which allows people to locate a range of health services in British Columbia using an iPhone, iPad or iPod. The BC Health Service Locator app lets people find walk-in clinics, hospitals, emergency rooms, immunization clinics and after-hours pharmacies nearby. Mobile users can filter the results to view a particular type of health service, such as walk-in clinics, or view wheelchair-accessible locations. The keyword search provides the opportunity to view results in different locations or find a particular type of health service. Details attached to the locations include the health service description, hours of operation, contact information and address..."
Added: 8 February 2012;
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- Making Progress: Open Data: Increasing transparency puts citizens at the centre
- Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release, December 31, 2011. "Victoria – Since its inception in July, B.C.'s Open Data initiative has successfully connected and engaged British Columbians in new and more meaningful ways... The Province launched a new Open Information website this year, where people can find information requested through Freedom of Information, as well as ministers' and deputy ministers' travel expenses. The information provided on both of these sites has been accessed and used by researchers, university students, media, and enabled citizens to build creative applications, ask better questions and engage in discussions that will positively affect the lives of British Columbians ..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- B.C. overhauling privacy laws
- Changes herald shift to Internet, critics warn of personal invasion, By Rob Shaw, Times Colonist, October 5, 2011. "The B.C. government unveiled a sweeping rewrite of the province's privacy laws that sets the stage for what it says are cutting-edge government Internet services but what critics call an erosion of personal privacy. The changes, tabled in the legislature Tuesday, pave the way for B.C.'s new high-tech CareCards, as well as combined CareCards and driver's licences, first announced in May..."
Added: 6 October 2011;
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- Amendments introduced to strengthen privacy act
- Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release, 4 October 2011. "Victoria – Amendments to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act were introduced in the legislature today by Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. 'These amendments serve to modernize an act that came into force in 1992, when the majority of citizens had not even heard of the Internet,' said Minister MacDiarmid. 'We are aligning the act with current-day technology and with the way British Columbians want to be served by government today.'..."
Added: 6 October 2011;
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- OpenDataBC
- "You can use this site to find the open data that is available about British Columbia. Maybe you are looking for an answer to a specific question, or perhaps you are curious about what data is available. OpenDataBC is a collaborative effort by a group of B.C. citizens. We want to help all of us to have better access to information, so that we understand our government better. To answer questions such as how goverment spends our money, and what data is used to make decisions on our behalf. We believe that open data helps to promote innovation, because citizens can use government datasets to build applications, ask better questions, and provide alternative answers and solutions..."
Added: 31 August 2011;
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- Open Data Geeks to the Rescue
- Invited to a 'hackathon' by the BC gov't, they turn digital info into usable tools for citizens, By Carrie Swiggum, TheTyee.ca, 30 August 2011. "Call it the open data movement. Led by a volunteer group of independent computer programmers, data management experts and analysts, and motivated by caffeine and citizen engagement alone, they can turn raw numbers into usable tools. And at the OpenDataBC hackathon on Saturday, they accomplished projects in a few hours that the B.C. government has been working on for months..."
Added: 31 August 2011;
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- Open data, open government
- by Don Tapscott. Globe and Mail, August 3, 2011. "There's been a lot of talk about open government, but one province is finally walking the talk. Last month, the B.C. government unveiled DataBC, a broad initiative to make available at no charge a wide array of data gathered by government that had previously mostly sat unused in filing cabinets..."
Added: 4 August 2011;
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