January 22, 2014 – Vancouver – Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
The Government of Canada is supporting and promoting its first national Open Data appathon, the Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE), slated for the end of February. Students, tech developers and Open Data enthusiasts will be challenged to turn valuable Government of Canada data into useful and user-friendly apps. The winning teams will be awarded prizes.
Treasury Board President Tony Clement is in Vancouver this week to promote CODE at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. CODE is part of our Government's effort to promote the kind of technological advances that lead to the start-up of new businesses, economic expansion and job creation, as well as social benefits, like using data to save time in our day-to-day schedules.
To fully harness the powers of Open Data, the Government of Canada is releasing datasets into the hands of entrepreneurs and other Open Data enthusiasts through data.gc.ca, Canada's federal Open Data Portal.
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