Carolyn DuBois lives in the Toronto area. She loves her home, and has a soft spot for the Humber River. As the Executive Director of the Water Program for the Gordon Foundation, she’s been a key player in the expansion of DataStream, a platform for sharing open data on freshwater health. I spoke to Carolyn just […]
DataStream Moves Towards Pan-Canadian Coverage with Great Lakes on Board Read More »
The Canadian Freshwater Alliance and the Our Living Waters Network are sister projects with a shared goal: for all waters in Canada to be in good health. Besides this shared goal, we have other things in common: both initiatives are projects on MakeWay’s shared platform. Both projects work together quite closely. And, we have overlapping networks
Projects never go quite as planned, even in the best of times. And virtually nothing went as planned in 2020. But even projects that don’t hit their deliverables, that fizzle out, that ultimately end in failure, can be rich learning experiences. In early 2020, Our Living Waters and the Forum for Leadership on Water embarked on
Learning from failure: our project on watershed entities and plans Read More »
In our 2021 Network priorities survey, we asked you, our members, where we should invest the most time and effort to develop data in our Shared Measurement System over the coming year. The Shared Measurement System acts as a collective vision guiding us towards achieving our ambitious goal of “all waters in Canada in good health by 2030.” It’s
Network Priorities for 2021 to 2022 – Data Development Updates Read More »
