Again, I hope so. My sense is that in the intervening months there will be ongoing conversations where there is a best-practice sharing that's not dissimilar to the work among the federal agencies in the United States that's been done in the inter-agency group. The President's memorandum on the first day, followed by the open government directive that was issued--the memorandum was in January and the directive was issued in December--set out a loose set of principles and guidelines. Much of the work that's taking place has been about conversations between agencies sharing best practices. People want to know how NARA is using social media so they can copy it in their own agency.
Especially since I left government, I now see in my work that kind of conversation among and between governments all the time: What have you done, how did you move toward open data, etc.? There is something called the transparency initiative, which is a consortium of seven major global foundations who got together to invest in and promote open government practices around the world and are there precisely to try to encourage this kind of best-practice sharing in the lead-up to the UN meeting.
So I think a lot of conversation is happening, and we should be sure that the right people from Canada are participating in those discussions.