For immediate release
March 11, 2013
Toronto, Ontario – The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, today hosted a round-table consultation in Toronto with high tech innovators and municipal Open Data leaders on the relaunch of the Government of Canada's Open Data Portal.
The Toronto round table is the first in a series of cross-country consultations with Canadians, tech innovators and the Open Data community about the kinds of features and content they would like to see on the new Open Data Portal set to launch later this year. The round tables are hosted by the Government of Canada and moderated by well-known Open Government expert, David Eaves.
In the last year, some 273,000 datasets from 22 departments and agencies have been released and are free to upload through the Government of Canada's Open Data Portal. The Portal, which will use an open source code platform, will feature better search capabilities, more Web 2.0 features and interactive tools.
As outlined by the Prime Minister, the Government of Canada remains focused on what Canadians care most about: their families, the safety of our streets and communities, their pride in being a citizen of this country and their personal financial security.
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