Government Operations committee  One way we look at it is always trying to guess what the public wants to see and what they want to do with it. We found—and I know the municipalities are closer tied to the app space—that it's quite typical that when we want to provide a service, an online service or an app, we'r

Government Operations committee  In the case of the NCC, I'm not sure, but I think federal highways would be one example in terms of that indication of how you get around.

Government Operations committee  I can say that at the city level, for sure our most popular right now, although some of this is based on what we have available, are recreation, transit, transportation, garbage collection, cultural events—all of those front-line, immediate services that people are looking for. T

Government Operations committee  Thank you. We are I think in a unique position. There aren't actually many bilingual cities or jurisdictions releasing data, so I've actually connected with staff in the Treasury Board on this topic to help try to solve it. One of the key problems we have is the operating lang

Government Operations committee  To go along with that, I think transportation is a key one, as is environment, health, and spending itself. We've had requests to see the spending as it goes through the three levels of government. Certainly around transportation it's an easy one. Take the conditions of the high

Government Operations committee  If I can add, it's difficult to get common data formats for particular topics across the levels of government simply because in many cases you're working with different types of data. There'll be a few circumstances where it's the same. It could be around transportation. If you'r

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I really think open data itself is kind of a nerdy thing, to use your term, so it can only be expected that the biggest users are those who can manipulate it. I think what governments can do is to leverage that. The point of this is that we typically had released rep

Government Operations committee  In a way, I think it is a question for the consumers of the data. Harvey will speak to it as a consumer and his role with the city of how useful that data is to the city itself. I think it goes a long way in identifying the gaps in the data. From my point of view, data has been p

Government Operations committee  I think it does serve a purpose around that, whether it's data standards or formats or the topic itself that's accessible. I'll let Harvey speak to it.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for inviting the City of Ottawa and for inviting me to speak today. I've been running the open data program at the city for the last three to four years. To give you a bit of history, I've been working in the municipal IT sector for the last five o