09. Open Information on Budgets and Expenditures

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    “09. Open Information on Budgets and Expenditures.” Open Government - Government of Canada, 29 July 2015, http://open.canada.ca/en/commitment/mtsar/2014-2016/09-open-information-budgets-and-expenditures
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Lead implementing department(s)
Finance
Treasury Board Secretariat
Pillars
Open Information
Reporting period

Deliverables for this commitment are on track to be completed by June 2016.

Publish expanded information and data on federal spending to help Canadians understand, and hold government accountable for, the use of public monies.

Results Next Steps Body Completion Level
  • The Treasury Board Secretariat has launched an enhanced online tool for visualizing expenditures, human resources management data, etc. (TBS Infobase), which features new ways to view financial information:
    • “Learn and Explore”, “Explore Visually” features interactive infographics for new users who want to learn about the government and get a sense of the scale of our business.
    • “Search by Department”, “Create your own report” allows experienced users to view and compare specific data
    • Power users continue to have direct access to data through Open Data to conduct detailed analysis.
  • Test service with Canadians as part of usability testing of the open.canada.ca site (Fall 2015).

1. Launch a new interactive online service that enables Canadians to review and visualize federal spending.

  • Consultations with Canadians will be completed to test and ensure the effectiveness of this new online service.
Completed
  • Building on the foundation of these services, full implementation of proactive disclosure information for contracts >10K, grants & contributions, and travel & hospitality will be implemented for 15 key federal departments and agencies (Fall 2015).

2. Provide single-window, searchable access to information that is proactively disclosed by departments and agencies (e.g., travel and hospitality, contracts, grants and contributions).

  • Standardize procedures for publishing mandatory proactive disclosure information by federal departments and agencies.
Limited
  • This deliverable is now complete.

3. Make all data from charts and tables in Budget 2015 available in machine-readable formats to facilitate analysis by citizens and parliamentarians.
Completed
Relevance

Supports the principles of transparency, accountability, access to new technologies for openness and accountability. Deliverables are targeted at helping address the OGP Grand Challenges of improving public services and increasing public integrity by enhancing access to proactively-released data and information on federal budgeting and spending.

Ambition

Provides enhanced online tools that give a clear picture of the financial expenditures across government enabling Canadians to track government spending over time.

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