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May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  That's an interesting question. In the past we'd have people come to us and say, “I've looked at the community accounts, and you have your table, so you must have an awful lot more data to have created those” and our answer was yes. If somebody wanted that and they asked for it,

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  I said we've been very active in sharing data since 2000. If I stretched the definition of open data, I could say that, but I'm not going to do that.

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  I think the answer is that's not very well advanced in our province right now. I know that communities use our data an awful lot. I get contacts from mayors throughout our province all the time, quite often thanking us and saying that they wouldn't have too much if we weren't the

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  I was thinking specifically of the data that we have in the community accounts, and of course, there's a wide range of data there because there are a large number of domains—income, employment, demographics, and on and on. We buy any data that we don't have readily available. We

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  That's an interesting question. This was one thing that led us, when we were building the community accounts, to put in an organizational framework for the data. When you talk about people who are interested in labour market-related data, for instance, that was one area we specif

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  It's not so hard for us, because we have 600 communities spread around 6,000 miles of coastline, and almost every one of them is separated from every other community. So basically our approach to defining a community is: it's Fogo, it's Harbour Grace, it's whatever. That hasn't b

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely. That's the essence of what I have to say or what I can say. I'm happy to answer questions.

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here this morning. I'm always interested and happy to talk to people about things that we're interested in as well. I have brought along some slides, but unfortunately there wasn't time to have them translated into French, so you're n

May 13th, 2014Committee meeting

Alton Hollett