Information & Ethics committee  Well, I did mean to mention that technology can be very enabling. It can be an equalizer when it comes to people who are vision impaired or mobility impaired. Also, many more people can fit into a conversation than can fit in a room. I think that's really important for democracy

Information & Ethics committee  The information we've always used has just been information. It's basically been like a fax. The last point discussed taking information and putting it on the news; that's not really thinking there are people out there who would want to look at that issue in more detail. If they

Information & Ethics committee  The way I think of government is that it has to have some influence in shaping what's happening, and I do think privacy and participation and anti-fraud crime can be the same ball of wax. I think it could be a message that this is an opportunity for Canadians to better engage wit

Information & Ethics committee  I just wanted to say that having one portal is not absolutely necessary, because if the metadata from these content sources are published to a particular standard, it's very easy for centralized places to find that information. With regard to privacy of information, there are ab

Information & Ethics committee  The approach that I think is most appropriate for most publicly produced and publicly funded data sets is a well-known license called Creative Commons by attribution. What that means is that other people can take those data and reuse them for their own purposes, but they have to

Information & Ethics committee  What we're talking about is a new form of copyright that's designed for sharing. It's really designed for the Internet. It's designed for these kinds of data sets. It's called Creative Commons. There's a movement behind it to revitalize copyright to make it easier to understand a

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I hope you have received our crowdsourced briefing document, where we covered an array of topics around open data, open government, and more involved citizens. We covered topics such as the usefulness of open data inside government to enable connections and better ena

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. In science communities, having open data helps create wider standards for more data sharing and enables a culture of scientist-citizen. In education, notable institutions enable free access to the world's best information. We talked about poisonous data and systems that a