History
2012
When did Canada join the OGP?
Canada's FPT working group on open government
What is COGWG?
79
How many member countries are there in the OGP?
A data standard to support open, accessible and timely information on government contracting
What is the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)?
Data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone.
What is open data?
2011
When was the OGP established?
The first jurisdiction that is part of Canada's federated search pilot
What is Alberta?
Canada's civil society co-chair at the OGP
Who is Nathaniel Heller?
A cross-sector advisory body that supports the Government of Canada's open government efforts
What is the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government?
An initiative under Canada's 3rd National Action Plan to leverage open data for business creation, based out of Communitech
What is the Canadian Open Data Exchange?
October 1, 2018
When did Canada become the lead government chair of the OGP?
Canada's cochair for COGWG
What is Alberta?
The CEO of the OGP
Who is Sanjay Pradhan?
An initiative to address corruption in payments around oil, gas and mining companies
What is the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)?
The tool that departments and agencies use to make open data available on open.canada.ca
What is the registry?
1983
When did Canada's Access to Information Act come into effect?
The first Canadian city to get an open data portal
What is Vancouver?
A pilot mechanism for the OGP to quickly respond to threats to civic space
What is the Rapid Response Mechanism
A visualization tool managed by TBS to help the public understand government spending
What is InfoBase?
69 departments and agencies
How many federal departments and agencies are releasing open data on open.canada.ca?
Brasilia
A province that provides access to municipal open data through its provincial open data portal
What is Quebec?
An app in Colombia for citizens to monitor and audit investment and progress on government spending on public infrastructure
What is the White Elephant app?
10 commitments
How many commitments are included in Canada's fourth National Action Plan on Open Government?
A machine translation tool that OCIO is using on a pilot basis to fulfil Official Language requirements as part of our federated search pilot
What is DeepL?