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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...

The Canada.ca theme and topic tree is a controlled vocabulary and information architecture scheme designed to provide access to the top tasks, government wide through Canada.ca.

This is the preliminary draft of the Open Government consultation plan for the 2020-22 National Action Plan. This document provides an overview of the approach the Open Government team plans to take for their upcoming consultations and includes the objectives, context, challenges, and proposed...

This document contains a draft end-of-term self-assessment on Canada’s performance on its commitments in the Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership 2016-2018. The Government of Canada is seeking your feedback on this report between September 18, 2018 and October 1, 2018. Please...

This document contains the full set of draft commitments for Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. For more information, please visit the Creating Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2016–18 page. Please comment on this page or email your feedback to...

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