Information & Ethics committee  Departments are making quite a wealth of information available online. Not all of the information is in data sets that can be repurposed by computers. Obviously NRCan and Environment are both departments with a lot of numerical data. There are other departments with numerical dat

Information & Ethics committee  We regularly follow the committee's work. We read the minutes of meetings and testimonies.

Information & Ethics committee  Madam, I must point out that we had planned to meet with this committee before Christmas.

Information & Ethics committee  We have not made any announcements. We are basically working internally. Some information was included in a report submitted to the OECD in preparation for a meeting. When this report was drafted, we thought we would make headway more quickly than we have. After submitting the r

Information & Ethics committee  Well, there is no existing policy that says, “Thou shalt put all your data up in machine-readable format”, but that's exactly what we've been working on, and the—

Information & Ethics committee  Open government in...?

Information & Ethics committee  There is an access to information policy and there is an information management policy, but an open data policy that specifically says departments that publish data on their websites must do so in machine-readable format is not currently developed. We are working on it. It has a

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that departments are making an awful lot of data available online to the public, in either PDF or standard web format. Departments, I think, are publishing—

Information & Ethics committee  That is true--

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There were a number of questions, so let me just try to take them one by one. Yes, we have been working on an open data portal. We have been inspired, in fact, by the good work and the significant experience of colleagues at NRCan and Environment with their

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you on the topic of open government. My name is Corinne Charette. I am the chief information officer for the Government of Canada. I lead the CIOB branch at Treasury Board Secretariat, wh

Information & Ethics committee  Very well. Thank you. I'm sorry about that. Alors, I'll carry on. Within Treasury Board Secretariat, my branch is responsible for establishing the overall government-wide strategic directions across the four policy areas we manage. We do this in alignment with legislation and

Public Accounts committee  Well, that is going to be in fact a very important exercise, and one we're going to have to address as a community with great care. Once we have conducted our survey and we have responses from every department individually on their mission-critical systems and how they prioritize

Public Accounts committee  I would say that from an administrative systems perspective, and that's the focus of administrative review, there are opportunities to consolidate, standardize, simplify, and then renew back-office platforms. That's not necessarily on one massive...because government is too big a

Public Accounts committee  The risk of cyber attack or the maintenance of cyber security is a top priority of CIOB. We reissued the government security policy last year with a strong focus on this matter. In fact, we're working on the number one initiative to address that, which is a consolidation of Inter