open government in Canada - submit your thoughts to Parliament

From a news release on January 27, 2011:

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics is undertaking a study on open government. ...

The Committee believes that it is important to hear from Canadians on this topic. Submissions and briefs on the subject of open government in Canada can be submitted to the Committee’s mailbox at [email protected]  A brief which is longer than 10 pages should be accompanied by a 1 page executive summary.

The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) is composed of 11 parliamentarians representing four political parties.

There's information about past and upcoming meetings available, including written transcripts and audio ("webcast", Windows Media format).  David Eaves will be presenting on January 31, 2011 and the site indicates the presentation will be televised.  On February 2, 2011 David Hume @dbhume, David Wallace @CIODave and Vincent Gogolek will be presenting.

UPDATE 2011-01-31: David Eaves' statement and Q&A audio and video in both languages are available from ParlVU (Windows Media format).  There was a limited use of the hashtag #ETHI for the meeting.  ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-02: Kady O'Malley (@kady) liveblogged David Eaves' presentation and has also separately liveblogged the February 2 session.  Also, the discussion with David Hume, David Wallace and Vincent Gogolek is now available from ParlVU.  ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-03: Speakers at the February 7, 2011 session will be Guy Michaud, CIO of the City of Ottawa; Brian Beamish, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario; and Penny Ballem, City Manager, Vancouver.  It will be televised and a live webcast should be available from ParlVU (with archive available at the same location afterwards).

Guy Michaud has been key to the City of Ottawa's open data initiatives, including the data catalogue site and the recently closed $50,000 Apps4Ottawa contest.  ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-04: More meeting information posted

MEETING On February 9, 2011 at 3:30pm Eastern

• Corinne Charette, CIO of Canada and Stephen Walker, Senior Director, Information Management Decision from Treasury Board Secretariat
• From NRCan: Brian Gray, Assistant Deputy Minister, Earth Sciences Sector; Bill Merklinger, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Management and Services Sector; Prashant Shukle, Director General, Mapping Information Branch
• Chuck Shawcross, Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Information Officer of Environment Canada

Event will be televised, and webcast on ParlVU with archive available afterwards (Windows Media).

On February 14, 2011

Visible Government has announced

On February 14, Visible Government has been invited to testify at the The Federal Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Studies Open Government. We're preparing and will continue to develop a briefing document, which will be the basis of ten minutes worth of speaking notes with a follow-up Q&A.

Visible Government was looking for input to be provided through their wiki http://www.visiblegovernment.ca/w/Ethics_Standing_Committee by February 7, 2011 at noon.

The ParlVU info for the 14th hasn't been posted yet.

ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-10:

MEETING Monday February 14, 2011

* Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada

* Tracey Lauriault (@TraceyLauriault)

* David Mason (@nostriluu), Exec Director, Visible Government

Will be televised, also ParlVU webcast (with archive available almost immediately afterwards).

ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-14:

* Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada, speaking instead of Jennifer Stoddart

ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2011-02-24:

MEETING Feburary 28, 2011, 3:30 pm Eastern

Diane Mercier, PhD

Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Jean-Stéphen Piché, Acting ADM, Acquisitions Sector, Library and Archives Canada

Mark Perlman, Acting ADM; Consulting, Information and Shared Services Branch (PWGSC)

Christine Leduc, Director, Publishing and Depository Services, Consulting, Information and Shared Services Branch (PWGSC)

Audio and video available on ParlVU.

MEETING March 2, 2011 3:30 PM

David Ferriero (@dferriero), National Archivist, US National Archives and Records Administration

Melanie Ann Pustay, Director, Office of Information Policy, US Department of Justice (or USDOJ OIP, as they say)

Beth Simone Noveck (@bethnoveck), Professor of Law, former US Deputy CTO for open government, author of Wiki Government

Audio and video available on ParlVU.

ENDUPDATE

Although there is no Twitter hashtag specific to this Committee's meetings, There is limited use of #ETHI as the hashtag for these meetings (it's the abbreviation for the committee). The most common one for the topic of open government is #opengov

For some background about what Canadian federal parties and officials have put forward as policies on the topic, see Wikipedia - Open Government in Canada - Overview.