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Canada’s second Action Plan included the Directive on Open Government, which made it mandatory for federal government departments and agencies to maximize the release of data and information. This Plan also established commitments to collaborate with provinces, territories, and municipalities...

Canada’s first plan to the Open Government Partnership, after joining the OGP in 2011, set a direction for how Government manages and releases records and changed Canada’s open data portal, data.gc.ca, from a pilot into a permanent program. This Action Plan was structured along three streams of...

This document is the Project Charter for the Federated Data Search Pilot Project between the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Government of Alberta’s Open Government Program. It acts as both a guiding document in terms of the expectations and responsibilities for each member of the...

This report provides common criteria to help identify high value datasets and provide examples of common types of high value datasets. It was based on jurisdictional scans of high value dataset criteria, recent surveys, and international standards