What I would love to see is this group model itself a little bit after the Australian task force to make similar recommendations. Then I would love to see the government look at those recommendations and figure out how to fit them into their agenda. I think there is an enormous opportunity.
One of the things that makes me most excited about the open-data agenda is how much appeal it should have across the political spectrum. In the United Kingdom, you have a Conservative-led coalition government that is using open data very strategically to try to rethink how government operates, how it spends money, and how efficient and effective it is. Meanwhile, you have governments at the local level here in Canada that have a much more social agenda. They are trying to think about discovering the types of challenges in our communities. Also, they're trying to rethink how we deliver government services to make them more effective.
For me, the model that is most exciting is one that has a strong committee like this one making some very clear recommendations that could have some pan-partisan appeal and a government, given its ideological roots, that could probably grab some of those recommendations and run with them.