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    "title" : "Inspiring Data Forum at the Canadian Space Agency |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Inspiring Data Forum at the Canadian Space Agency","summary" : "Last [month], NASA Open Innovation Program Manager Dr. Beth Beck and her team traveled to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) near Montreal, Canada to attend the Inspiring Data Forum graciously hosted by our Open Data neighbors to the North. The goal of this gathering was to bolster the working relationship between the two Space Agency’s","date" : "2017-04-10T11:00:16-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jason-duley" : "Jason Duley"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2017/04/2017-04-10-inspiring-data-forum-at-the-canadian-space-agency.md","slug" : "inspiring-data-forum-at-the-canadian-space-agency","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/04/10/inspiring-data-forum-at-the-canadian-space-agency/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eLast [month], \u003ca href=\"https://www.fedscoop.com/fedscoops-top-women-in-tech-2017-beth-beck/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNASA Open Innovation Program Manager Dr. Beth Beck\u003c/a\u003e and her team traveled to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCanadian Space Agency (CSA)\u003c/a\u003e near Montreal, Canada to attend the \u003cem\u003eInspiring Data Forum\u003c/em\u003e graciously hosted by our \u003ca href=\"http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data?_ga=1.93334933.946068400.1489603072\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOpen Data neighbors to the North\u003c/a\u003e. The goal of this gathering was to bolster the working relationship between the two Space Agency’s Open Data efforts and to present techniques NASA is doing in Open Innovation. The event was heavily attended by CSA employees and also had participants from National Research Council of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, Agricultural and Agri-Food Canada, MaxQ and Social Sciences \u0026amp; Humanities Research Council of Canada. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/04/600-x-185-Canadian-Space-Agency-CSA.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Canadian Space Agency (CSA) logo on equipment\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the forum, NASA had the opportunity to present the history of Open Government, approaches to getting started with Open Data and also demonstrated one of the unique aspects of \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNASA’s Open Data website\u003c/a\u003e, the distribution of digital content through the lens of personas such as Citizen Scientist, Developer, Govie, etc. NASA Open Data lead Jason Duley provided an overview of Open Data activities and approaches to sharing through purpose-built sites for \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/blog/inspiring-data-forum-canadian-space-agency/code.nasa.gov\"\u003eOpen Source Code\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/blog/inspiring-data-forum-canadian-space-agency/api.nasa.gov\"\u003eAPIs\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/blog/inspiring-data-forum-canadian-space-agency/data.nasa.gov\"\u003edatasets\u003c/a\u003e. Beth Beck, being one of NASA’s foremost thought-leaders on Hackathons, conveyed how our agency successfully grew the \u003ca href=\"https://2017.spaceappschallenge.org/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eInternational SpaceApps challenge\u003c/a\u003e each year, as well as how NASA engages with citizens in outreach programs like the \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/explore/datanauts/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDatanauts\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/04/600-x-450-NASA-and-Canadian-Space-Agency-CSA-teams.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Pictured above from left to right: CSA CIO Josée Saint-Marseille, NASA Open Data Lead Jason Duley, CSA Open Data Officer Josianne Laurin, CSA Data Management Analyst Delphine Vandycke, President of MaxQ Brodie Houlette, NASA Open Innovation Manager Dr. Beth Beck and CSA Open Data Coordinator Nathalie Lévesque.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA guided tour of CSA was given to the visiting participants and we had the opportunity to see the Canadian Robotic Arm, \u003ca href=\"http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/dextre/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDEXTRE\u003c/a\u003e, and the various mission control operations and training facilities residing at CSA. In the afternoon session, Brodie Houlette of MaxQ gave a fabulous presentation of the MaxQ mission, open data and the economy and accelerating growth with open data as well as conveyed how the \u003ca href=\"http://www.maxq.ca/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWaterloo data innovation accelerator\u003c/a\u003e was built from \u003ca href=\"http://data.nasa.gov/docs/spaceapps/sa-acceleratortoolkit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNASA’s Project Accelerator Toolkit\u003c/a\u003e and inspired his team to help other innovators succeed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2017/04/600-x-400-NASA-Project-Accelerator-Toolkit-word-cloud.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Word cloud infographic for NASA’s Project Accelerator Toolkit.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eNASA learned a great deal about Open Data from the CSA perspective during the trip. Special thanks to our hosts and especially Nathalie Lévesque of CSA for organizing this event!\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/blog/\"\u003eopenNASA\u003c/a\u003e blog.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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