Information & Ethics committee  I would like to answer that question by explaining to you my personal journey through this open data event and the consultation. We at the City of Ottawa have an IT subcommittee. The purpose of the committee is to look at any issues dealing with technology. As I mentioned earlie

Information & Ethics committee  There was no reorganization, no additional staff. If you live in Ottawa, you know that we have some fiscal realities we need to deal with. We did all of this using current staff. We first engaged the city departments. We have a representative who works with us to make sure we kn

Information & Ethics committee  I'm going to answer first. There were two parts to your question, and I will start with the part on how we dealt with the official languages. We did not. What happened is that most of the data we produced was geospatial data. We never got, to my knowledge, a request to get this

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I would first like to thank you for inviting me. Today, I want to talk to you about the City of Ottawa's experience with the Open Data program. The first question to ask ourselves is, what is open data for the City of Ottawa? For us, it was an opportunity to increas