Government Operations committee  I would say that Crown corporations are quite collaborative. CMHC has reached out to us and is interested. We haven't put a focus on getting data sets from Crown corporations yet, but certainly that is something that we will work on over this fiscal year to try to expand beyond t

Government Operations committee  The apps on our website are free apps. Developers that create apps using our data and anybody else's data are free to decide to sell those apps and put those apps on the Apple store or any other app gallery out there and actually charge money for them, but we would not necessaril

Government Operations committee  Well, there are two questions there. First, in terms of what data sets are made available for publication, the first thing that's important is that what's on the open data portal is not classified information. Clearly it is not information that is classified secret or confidenti

Government Operations committee  To answer your last question first, the use and the downloading of these data sets is totally anonymous. That is part of the privacy notice on the site. There are no accounts. You don't have to create an account to download a data set; you can download it, and we do not track tha

Government Operations committee  As for links with the private sector, we do not have any formal links as such. We were happy to see the Open Data Institute, which is found in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, mentioned in the last budget. This is a growing movement. It is a non-profit that esse

Government Operations committee  With that, before we embark on the third and concluding part of our presentation, are there any questions about the demo?

Government Operations committee  We're not tracking anything. In fact, metadata and this mapping exercise—and you raise a good point that we'll have to be a lot crisper with our terminology, so thank you—are really about aligning the data standards for how we describe these data sets internationally and ensuring

Government Operations committee  One thing that's important to clarify is that the mapping of metadata exercise referred to in the G-8 charter is about standardizing the type of metadata. It has nothing to do with what CSEC does or information that they do or don't collect. It is about defining standards for d

Government Operations committee  It is. In fact that is one of our commitments to our first action plan that was published, which is the directive. In fact we're working hard on that to essentially give departments guidance in how to conduct inventories of the data they could publish, how to identify what they h

Government Operations committee  I'll try to address your questions the best we can. First, on your question about being available free of charge, that's an important part of our open data portal. Our open data assets are available free of charge. In fact, Statistics Canada had formerly been charging for access

Government Operations committee  All of the data on our portal is available free of charge, and that certainly is an important part of the open data construct internationally and certainly one that we support. So if our data is available, we make it available. Now of course not all of our data is available all a

Government Operations committee  To us they're certainly interrelated and in fact our open government action plan has three streams of activity that we committed to in April 2012. One of them is open data, one of them is open information, and one of them is open dialogue. In fact, the open government thrust is a

Government Operations committee  To what page are you referring?

Government Operations committee  It is a word that was used in the translation of the presentation. What it means here is that we need to assign metadata to different data sources and that international standards apply to the metadata that will be used. Do want to add to the concept of the G-8?

Government Operations committee  Good morning and thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It is a great honour to be here before the committee to speak about our success and our work on open data for the government. I'm very pleased to be here with my two colleagues to talk about open data. I'll introduce Stephen Wal