Government 2.0 in Canada: disclosed.ca

A few days ago, I came across an interesting project to make available an easily searchable database that shows all contracts (2004 to present) awarded by the Government of Canada. You can find this at disclosed.ca. I have only experimented with it a little, but what I have seen so far is encouraging. This is a good example of what librarians need to do. Sure, the contract information is out there but absent a good tool to organize it and make it available, it has very limited value.

I’ve been following similar open government efforts in the United Kingdom and United States with great interest over the past year or so, but there are relatively few examples of it in Canada. I would be very interested to know of more cases though.

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1. York University Adopts Open Access Policy for Librarians and Archivists