Information & Ethics committee  GCPEDIA is a tool designed specifically for employees of government departments and agencies.

Information & Ethics committee  Users share information on GCPEDIA about products under development. For example, we are currently working on all kinds of initiatives, including information management and the directive on information management. We post documents that are shared by a broader community. Official

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. You have a number of questions. First of all, there's no doubt that we're trying to work with the low-hanging fruit first, as you put it. That's absolutely the case, because the data that are readily available already in machine-readable format with translated metadat

Information & Ethics committee  The line is fairly clearly defined in the act. The legislation is quite specific as to the issue of privacy. Personal information cannot be disclosed and can only be stored after permission has been obtained, because this a program requirement. Personal data must be stored very s

Information & Ethics committee  There are guidelines in place governing the use of GCPEDIA. First, anyone who posts information or a document on GCPEDIA—because anyone who registers is free to do so—can be identified, through their e-mail address. If I post a document online, I post it under the name “Corinne

Information & Ethics committee  We're not studying or preoccupied with what Canadians would do or how they might use data sets that we would render accessible in machine-usable format from this portal. There certainly is no end to the imagination and the creativity of programmers. They can take either geospati

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly the secretary and the President of the Treasury Board are aware that we are working on a strategy for an open data portal. There's no question about it. We briefed on our five-point plan in the summer and we embarked upon this process, which we will report on. There is

Information & Ethics committee  Every departmental deputy head is accountable for the information holdings of his or her department and has responsibility for determining what they want to publish on their websites and how they want to publish it, provided they are compliant with our classical policy instrument

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe that Canada is behind many countries. We are behind the U.S. and the U.K. on open data. The U.S. went out very strongly shortly after President Obama was inaugurated, and the U.K. followed shortly afterward with their open data initiative; however, from a freedom

Information & Ethics committee  You raised two points. I will ask Prashant to talk to the issue of provincial jurisdictions. In fact, there is an awful lot of data. Info Source has been fairly long-standing and widely available on the TBS website. These are data that reconcile a lot of information from differ

Information & Ethics committee  I have to say that our access to information community has done a fantastic job in keeping up with an ever-increasing volume of access to information requests. While the resources assigned have grown, there's always a limit to what you can assign. The policies, the best practices

Information & Ethics committee  In fact, that's one of the reasons we've had to step back and carefully review our policy instruments and our strategy in this regard: because we do have to try to get a strategy that works for the wider community. It's not easy to reconcile all the variables that you mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it will take at least one month, so that we can take stock of what we...

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we'll be able to come back within a month on what we've accomplished to date on that five-point plan.