Government Operations committee  Could you be more specific? You want to know how much the site cost or how the site is perceived by citizens?

Government Operations committee  As with other levels of government, we haven't really promoted the fact that people can use the data on the site. As it now stands, we are still dealing mostly with developers, so they can create applications which will improve the collective well-being. A few moments ago, I tal

Government Operations committee  We have to go further and we need to have tools which will allow everyday people, people who are not computer experts, to interpret the data, to draw conclusions and to share information with others. You know that everybody is plugged into a social network. This is what we saw in

Government Operations committee  Generating wealth is not easy. You have to encourage people to do so. As a comparison, if I had put 25 smartphones in a room even before they had been put on the market, you would not have known what they were. Perhaps you would have looked at them, but you would not have known

Government Operations committee  No. The data are free, but people will have to buy the application created by using the open data. The application, for instance, might be to find a parking spot without risking a parking ticket. This type of application could be sold in an application store which would have been

Government Operations committee  We are working closely with the provincial government. This initiative brings together many municipalities. In Quebec, the directors of IT services in cities of 100,000 people or more meet every six weeks for different projects. We have united our efforts to meet with the provinc

Government Operations committee  I believe so. The closer you get to people's daily lives, the more they are interested. For example, during the month of August you could ask people who live in heat islands whether they would be interested in knowing how the heat spreads throughout their neighbourhood and what t

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, everyone. I am both pleased and honoured to be here today in order to share our experience with open data, in the hope of helping to improve the Canadian government operations with respect to data belonging to its citizens. Like the Canad