Government Operations committee  As an advocate of using data, I think it would potentially be a mistake for me to throw out ideas without actually doing any analysis. I think the thing you would want to do is to take the type of analysis that we did here globally and apply it to Canada and try to understand wha

Government Operations committee  I would just add a couple of comments. It is actually not straightforward to compare countries in terms of their “number of data sets”, because you could easily combine two data sets and say it was one. That's probably not a great metric. It is actually difficult to come up with

Government Operations committee  Sure. First of all, I think the use of open data to create transparency and accountability in our public institutions is incredibly important. We focused our report on the economic potential, partly because we thought that was part of the dialogue that hadn't been explored quite

Government Operations committee  I can't say that I have a comprehensive perspective, but for instance, there is legislation around the release of video rental records. That was a very specific example of a use of data, and the legislators decided it was not data that should be released. It's not a terribly wide

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things. One is that our aim, as part of the McKinsey Global Institute, is to inform the policy discussion, but just to be clear, we actually don't provide direct policy recommendations. That being said, I think the topic you bring up around privacy of indivi

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things. The first question was how we picked those sectors. Those sectors weren't picked because we thought those were the sectors where the most value would be created, but we wanted a number of sectors that varied across a number of dimensions. You notic

Government Operations committee  Yes. As we took a look at it, in fact, we found many different sources of value. Some of them are creating new products and services. Some of them are creating more efficient markets or more efficient ways to get to information. One of our interesting findings was that while a l

Government Operations committee  There are a few things that we've learned from working with private sector clients. You can think about what you need to do with open data as almost being like marketing and the aspects of marketing which we think are applicable. Number one is understanding the need that's out

Government Operations committee  I really haven't had an opportunity to compare the two initiatives. I don't think I could provide an informed perspective on that.

Government Operations committee  I'm not an expert on procurement, so I'm not sure I could comment on that, but certainly when data is made available broadly through a portal, or what have you, in general, anyone who has access to the Internet or the web is able to access the data. Certainly from a pure access s

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the honour of being able to spend some time with you. Even though I'm in Miami now and I live in San Francisco, I actually was privileged enough to have grown up in Burlington, Ontario. It is truly an honour to be able to interact with this committee. I did prepare