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<span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">FYI - some info on a major open government initiative happening in Canada.<br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Open-Ouvert</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca">open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 at 06:39<br>Subject: Release of Draft Commitments for Canada's 2018-20 National Action Plan on Open Government / Publication de l'ébauche des engagements du Plan d'action national du Canada pour un gouvernement ouvert 2018-20<br>To: Open-Ouvert <<a href="mailto:open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca">open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">(La version française suit.)<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Dear friends of Open Government,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">From October 2017 to April 2018, you shared your ideas, experiences and insights on the future of open government in Canada. We spent months analyzing all the data (and
there was a lot!) to pull out the major themes. We received over 5,000 comments. Together with civil society and government departments, we used these comments to develop possible commitments for our next National Action Plan on Open Government, 2018-2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">We want to hear from you!<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">We’re excited to share the draft commitments with you today. We welcome your feedback and comments by August 13, 2018. We are looking for feedback and ideas on how we could
strengthen the plan. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Please note that your comments will be public by default and will be released as part of a dataset. See
</span><span class="m_4859217970835871997MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://open.canada.ca/en/4plan/creating-canadas-4th-plan-open-government-2018-20#notice" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">our privacy statement</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">
for more information.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">You can comment on all or one of the commitments below via Google Docs:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUNZxhW6--IbsY4lle_e7dFsw5QSgd0mz-bjVuT1jXM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Financial transparency and accountability</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/114dJwKAtL8kOt3N9NIA7BojSuuslIHpwKif4VqhTN-4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Corporate transparency</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12m4FfPRHrbF-fkdFml2WmT3w5aLR2hXVoDEiaa_rwLc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Digital government and services</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9DOYM2zd4rnUYuM7tEdD6opacSCR5gzZcWmF0qZjig/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Open science</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10X9gP-LhW8LtIZb8bm5zHiusLhUpZz0xX7-NgZRqJH4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Healthy democracy</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18K2llOOI1GgyBxcRYAsVnlnVN6Y4cIsXuiZml65EcNc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Access to Information</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sz48rMVmVpbTDN7x8QJTBn_u1JT2oca4IWk3DUn4g-4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Feminist and inclusive open government</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16FCcIrCTk2zsNTYezOFrv_DbPCmI8Gyt74P0IiRv4oY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Reconciliation and open government</a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16T0WvURCbSw8ioxwansjpPhXLWSxWlmlIj9F414q2CI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Leadership and collaboration</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">You can also access the entire set of commitments, and comment on them, through our
<u><a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1540d4ce-5498-4a61-a929-f810ad3c2d95?_ga=2.262124229.917428658.1532358238-579209013.1527541095" target="_blank">open information portal</a></u> or by
</span><span class="m_4859217970835871997MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">emailing us</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">What’s next?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Throughout the summer, we’ll review all the feedback and adjust the draft commitments. The final release of Canada’s 2018-20 National Action Plan on Open Government is planned
for fall 2018.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">We’d like to thank you in advance for all your help in shaping our next National Action Plan on Open Government. You can learn more about how we drafted these commitments
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://open.canada.ca/en/4plan/about-process-creating-canadas-4th-plan-open-government" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">on our website</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">.</span></u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">
You can also see all the ideas and comments we received from Canadians in </span>
<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/23ecac3f-2bcc-44fd-af82-cd405991cce2" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">our engagement dataset</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">.
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