1. Open Government Presentation
65th Conference of QPAC 2016
“Digital Publishing 2.0”
Tuesday June 14, 2016
Mark Diner, Chief Advisor, Open Government

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4. open government design model
This is the model that we also use that describes the key components of Open Government
Transparency: being open by design – examples of this is the Open Gov Portal
Participation; and that includes opportunity for ALL citizens to engage in the policy design processes, and through the entire lifecycle of policy implementation
This means that Collaboration and how we do that must change – eliminate silos; etc.

5. “Web 2.0”  “Gov 2.0”  Open Government
The Westminster System of Government… …did not contemplate digital technologies….
“Web 2.0”  “Gov 2.0”  Open Government

6. A thought experiment to really understand our barriers…
what if we could re-invent government
that was:
principled and design driven
focused on democracy (citizen/user focused)
digitally enabled

7. Stronger, more open partnerships
Current Future
digital tools | internal, integrated planning and coordination amongst departments | open data and information

8. For there to be Open Laws they must:
align with the Open Government Licence

9. For there to be Open Laws they must:
be very easy to discover: cataloged, searchable and freely available
lawyers
citizens (varies province by province)

10. For there to be Open Laws they must:
be available inclusively and optimally based on how citizens live or how stakeholders work:
lawyers
citizens (varies province by province)

11. Open Laws would ideally:
provide context

12. What’s stopping us? the big-3 barriers
structural
cultural
legacy technologies

13. Discussion