Datadotgc.ca - A citizen-led beta for government data
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About this Site
Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy. In pursuit of this goal, this website is a citizen-led effort to promote open data and help share data that has already been liberated. Read more...
About the Graph
To encourage our government to share more structured data, this graph shows which ministries share and which do not. It is a powerful metric of how transparent a given ministry is.
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This is not an official Government of Canada website. Rather, it’s a collaborative effort by a group of citizens who want our governments to open their data — in useful, structured formats — so we’re showing them how it could be done.
This site is powered by Drupal and CKAN (the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, which is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation), with interactive data tables & maps running on Microsoft's open-source OGDI (Open Government Data Initiative). You can read more about the project here.