Check out Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2014-16.
Idea Dialogue Phase completed – Thank you very much for all your comments and suggestions. They have helped us develop a list of proposed activities for Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2.0, which has been posted in Phase 3 of this consultation – the Activities Discussion.
To get a summary of what was said, you can refer to the Consultation Summaries section.
Suggested Ideas
The Government of Canada should develop a fund that will provide grants to enable groups to take existing and new data sources and make them available to the public in a way that is promotes broad citizen interaction with data.
Open government inherently contains the ideas of inclusiveness, transparency and accountability.
Government of Canada through its departments and agencies provides various types of funding, loans and grants to various organizations to facilitate economic growth and development.
Over the decades, the Government of Canada has published authoritative information on a wide variety of topics. These publications provide a substantial base for any study of public policy and give the context and background to current issues.
The government of Canada (GOC) produces more software (aka. applications, code, computer programs, scripts…) then you might think. All the data recently published on Data.gc.ca had to come from somewhere!
Central registry of all federal regulations, risk management and information gathering instruments and measures to increase stakeholder and general public awareness of requirements and restrictions that can be filtered on any number of associated fiel
Je crois que j’aimerais que le gouvernement fédéral en fasse davantage en matière de gouvernement ouvert, sans qu’il s’agisse nécessairement de données ouvertes.
While I agree fully with Dr. Doughty and Mr. Justice Gomery regarding the absolute importance of the official record and the pressing need for legislation, I believe legislation alone is not enough to achieve integrity.
The day to day records of government are the foundation of accountability, transparency and the rule of law. Effective recordkeeping enables government to manage ongoing operations, deliver programs and services, and ensure accountability, stewa
Enforcement officers, inspectors, investigators, and all those who support them work hard to keep Canadians safe and uphold regulatory standards. Sometimes the end result is a criminal court conviction which becomes public domain.