Government Operations committee  The tendency is to prioritize the release of open data sets based on the needs and the values of the community of users. That implies a big effort made by governments right now to better understand the demand, meaning to engage with the various groups of actors, which is not an e

Government Operations committee  Very quickly, the answer is yes. From the OECD perspective, we have, in particular, three programs. One is for Latin America, which covers all Latin American countries, not only Chile and Mexico, which are member countries. The purpose is to transfer the practices and experience

Government Operations committee  I believe that France and the United States have a similar approach, and I think Spain has as well. Increasingly, governments are moving towards that road. Individual agencies are a big part of the ecosystem within the public sector in opening up data—more and more, the idea is

Government Operations committee  Well, we believe that for all actors, including the private sector, it is very important to know what's going on before advertising, and awareness-raising is essential. I would like to echo what another witness said. It's about businesses as actors, but it's also about other gro

Government Operations committee  What we have come across is that some governments have had some hesitation in opening up data sets, for privacy and security reasons, but also for quality-related reasons, meaning that data sets that have been collected for a long time are not always of the quality, in terms of t

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Our view is in fact that, yes, actors including businesses should voice their interests about which data sets the government should release in open format to enable the governments to prioritize the data sets to be opened up.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. We try to make governments do it in a way that is right, not just because it's the flavour of the moment. So I think your question is extremely important. We think there is value and a positive impact that still needs to be fully demonstrated; that i

Government Operations committee  If I understand the question correctly, it applies only to old data sets and not to data sets applicable today in the scientific domain. I think the answer is transparency, meaning that certainly there is a need for transparency in the actions taken, in the case of Canada, by the

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I would like to start by giving you a very brief oversight of what we do at the OECD, what we've been doing with open data with the 34 member countries of the OECD and increasingly with the non-member countries. I would like to clarify that we work with gov