The Government of Canada has announced its Open Government Action Plan. The fundamental principle is the issuing of a government-wide directive that will make government information and data available to the public by default. The pilot Open Data Portal now has a total of over 272,000 data sets including geospatial data from 20 organizations.
Directive on Open Government
The Directive will provide guidance to 106 federal departments and agencies on what they must do to maximize the availability of online information and data, identify the nature of information to be published, as well as the timing, formats, and standards that departments will be required to adopt.
Open Government License
To support the Directive and reduce the administrative burden of managing multiple licensing regimes across the Government of Canada, a new universal Open Government License will be issued with the goal of removing restrictions on the reuse of published Government of Canada information (data, info, websites, publications) and aligning with international best practices.
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