Yes.
If I were looking at this committee and I was trying to think about how we were going to assess the value of Canada's open data policies, I'd be looking at three things.
The first thing I'd be looking at is whether we are thinking strategically about the policy in economic areas that we want to be driving into and what the data is that we're releasing that might support those places.
The second is whether we are thinking hard about how government itself is using the open data that it releases, so it does what we call “dogfooding”, which is that it uses its own information rather than sharing with others and expecting them to use it, but using something completely different itself.
The third is whether we are actually sharing information about government itself. Where is the budget? Where are the things that make government transparent so that citizens themselves can better understand and make government more legible, so they can become more engaged in the political process and contribute in interesting ways in the policy debates?
Thank you.