Every departmental deputy head is accountable for the information holdings of his or her department and has responsibility for determining what they want to publish on their websites and how they want to publish it, provided they are compliant with our classical policy instruments for websites--that is, they're compliant with official languages, they're compliant with the common look and feel 2.0 standards, they're compliant with the federal communications policy, and so on. It's up to every department to decide that, and they do.
The open data portal we're exploring is slightly different, because it is not one deputy head. It's a portal that would encompass and bring together, through one logical front door, data from a number of departments. The issue of accountability is certainly one that we need to work through, because we're going through one front door and could be seeking data from multiple departments.
However, every department deputy head is accountable for determining what they publish and how they publish it, within policy guidelines.