Among other things, the information and privacy commissioners recommended, in the resolution, that at the outset, when developing government information for programs, policies or certain databases, we conduct an exercise that will allow an exact evaluation of the way in which we will build data banks and allow their disclosure.
At the federal level, with regard to requests for access to information, it is very difficult to promote the disclosure of information in a reusable form of technology, because it often comes from data banks that already exist in institutions that have not been designed in this manner, or also because this data is in static form. In the government, we work a great deal with PDF or HTML formats. These are static documents, they cannot be reused.
This is different from the government transparency that is being developed elsewhere. This is why in the United States, one of the prominent figures is the person in charge of developing technology throughout the entire American public service. This is the person who evaluates which technology will be used for recording data.
This is why we need to think about this beforehand. When we hear that this will involve a cultural change, it is because we have to think of a new way of producing our information in the federal public service.