We built http://www.datadotgc.ca/ because, as citizens, we want our governments to open up and share their data, in useful, structured formats that people can actually use or analyze. Unlike our American and British peers, the Canadian Federal (and provincial…) government(s) currently have no official, coordinated effort to release government data. We think that should change.

But rather than complain, we thought we’d do something. This is our effort. A stab at showing our government, and Canada, what a federal open data portal could and should look like.
Our Goals

* Be an innovative platform that can demonstrate to government how they should share data.
* Show citizens and politicians which Federal Ministries are striving to share data and be transparent, and which are not.
* Bring together government data in one place to both make it easier to find.

Future Plans

In addition to the functionality you already see on this site we hope, in the near future, to be able to:

* Respond to other requests to make this site better from the developer community
* Point to applications and mashups that use open government data
* Host data sets (where licenses permit) and offer APIs

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Related posts:

1. Draft Public Data Principles
2. ColoradoOpenData.org
3. Open Bermuda
4. http://wijken.delft.nl/
5. Open Data – Important Lessons