Richard Pietro is an average citizen who has undertaken to do something very much above average. On July 2nd, 2014 he started a cross-Canada motorcycle tour with the objective of bringing attention to, and encouraging citizen engagement in, the Open Government & Open Data movements.

His tour took him from Toronto, ON, east to Charlottetown, PEI, west to Victoria, BC, and back to the Nation’s Capital. There were between 20 and 30 official stops in between where formal events were scheduled, and hundreds of conversations at unofficial stops where Richard engaged people in on Open Government, Open Data and Civic Engagement conversations. Ottawa was the last stop.

Quick Facts

Ottawa’s event was held at Ottawa City Hall on September 16, 2014. The entire event was recorded and webcast.

Guests included:

Maryantonett Flumian, Institute on Governance

Manjit Basi, Citizens Academy

Peggy Taillon, Canadian Council on Social Development

Jamie C. Newman, Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia

Louisa Taylor, Writer, Editor, DataFest, WOW

Robert Giggey, City of Ottawa

Ali Al-Munayer, Android Developer / Founder of 3lywa Solutions

Joshua McDougall, Bitcoinsultants

Sponsors: Institute on Governance, OpenText Corporation.

Convenor: Jacques Mailloux.

International Open Data Day: February 22.