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Canada's Digital Research Future - Call for White Papers

Canada's New Digital Research Infrastructure Organisation (New DRI Organisation, or NDRIO) has put out a call for white papers.

https://engagedri.ca/ndrio-call-for-white-papers-on-canadas-future-dri-ecosystem/

Submissions should briefly describe individual perspectives on current challenges accessing Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) tools, services and support; the ideal future state of DRI in Canada; and how NDRIO could achieve such a state.

Deadline for submissions is 17:00 Canadian Pacific Standard Time (PST), Friday December 4, 2020.

NDRIO's scope includes Research Data Management, Research Software, and Advanced Research Computing / High-Performance Computing, for Canadian researchers.

Contact [email protected] for general details, or Felipe Pérez Jvostov, Senior Analyst for Outreach and Engagement at [email protected] about this specific call.

Disclaimer: I work on the Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy at ISED.

Public consultations for Canada's 2020-2022 National Action Plan on Open Government

Public consultations for Canada's 2020-2022 National Action Plan on Open Government will begin in March 2020.

There will be in-person consultations in Ottawa on March 3 and March 5, with other events and consultation methods to follow.

From March 2 to May 1, 2020, we’ll be connecting with Canadians online and across the country. Our goal is to hear what Canadians coast to coast to coast want to see in our next plan.

from Creating Canada’s 2020-22 National Action Plan on Open Government

There is a specific in-person events page.

You can also sign up for a mailing list or follow @OpenGovCan on Twitter.

UPDATE 2020-03-05: Online consultation is now available, including a specific thematic area for your feedback about Canada's open government directions for open science.  END UPDATE

Disclaimer: I worked on the Open Science commitments in the National Action Plans on Open Government from September 2014 to October 2019.

UNESCO launches a global consultation to develop a Recommendation on Open Science

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science will be prepared through a regionally balanced, multistakeholder, inclusive and transparent consultation process.  This process is guided by an Open Science Advisory Committee and is expected to lead to the adoption of the Recommendation by UNESCO Member States in 2021.

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All Open Science stakeholders, including scientists and scientific institutes, science publishers, science policy makers etc., are encouraged to participate and  to share their insights [through] a global survey.

from UNESCO launches a global consultation to develop a standard-setting instrument on Open Science

UNESCO has a Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) with a great deal of information about open access worldwide.  They also provide a series of learning modules about open access.

Feedback requested on Canada's draft 2018-2020 Open Gov Plan

The Government of Canada has released its final draft 4th Plan on Open Government 2018-2020, as part of its participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP).  The plan has 10 draft commitments, which are available in Google Docs for commenting:

1. User-friendly open government
2. Financial transparency and accountability
3. Corporate transparency
4. Digital government and services
5. Open science
6. Healthy democracy
7. Access to Information
8. Feminist and inclusive open government
9. Reconciliation and open government
10. Leadership and collaboration

Feedback can also be provided via email to [email protected]

The Open Science commitment has four milestones:

• Pilot an open science portal to provide access to open access publications from federal scientists
• [Launch an online directory of National Research Council Canada scientists]
• Promote open science and actively solicit feedback on stakeholder needs for open data and open science
• Measure the Government of Canada’s progress in implementing open science, and the benefits open science can provide to Canadians

The deadline for feedback is August 13, 2018.

The 2016-2018 Open Government Plan, which also included an Open Science commitment, is now completed.

Twitter:

• @opengovcan
• #opengovcan

Disclaimer: I am employed by the Government of Canada to work on Open Science.

Provide feedback on the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy

The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (the agencies)—have developed a draft Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, which aims to support Canadian research excellence by fostering sound digital data management and data stewardship practices.

feedback on the draft policy is requested by August 31, 2018

Feedback can be sent electronically to any of the following email addresses:

SSHRC:

[email protected]

NSERC:

[email protected]

CIHR:

[email protected]

IT, innovation, science and more - Gov of Canada 2016 consultations

Many Government of Canada consultations are underway.  This post is updated as they close and new ones are announced.

• Innovation - unknown deadline
• including Global Science Excellence ideas
• Fundamental Science Review – closes September 30, 2016
• Government of Canada [Information Technology] Cloud Adoption Strategy - closes September 30, 2016 - "Feedback on the strategy will be collected until September 30, 2016, and will be used to finalize the Government’s approach." - see press release for more info
  • feedback by email to [email protected]
• Government of Canada Information Technology (IT) Strategic Plan 2016-2020 – closed September 30, 2016 – “all feedback will be considered when the plan is updated in 2017”
  • feedback by email to [email protected]
• CRTC – differential pricing (or ‘zero-rating’) – closes September 30, 2016
• Cyber Security - closes October 15, 2016
• National Housing Strategy - closes October 21, 2016
• Official Languages – closing extended to November 14, 2016
• Shared Services Canada (SSC) IT Transformation - closes October 31, 2016 - also see (now closed) IT Strategic Plan and Cloud Adoption Strategy above
• Federal employees can provide feedback using http://www.ittransformationconsultation.ca/federal-employees
• Canada Post – closes December 31, 2016
• Clean Resources / Clean Tech / Clean Energy – unknown deadline - closed October 31, 2016
• Canadian Content in an Online World – consultation launched September 13, 2016 – unknown deadline
  • http://www.canadiancontentconsultations.ca/
  • Facebook Live events October 28, 2016 and November 7, 2016
• Budget 2017 – unknown deadline

Disclaimer: I work at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

See also:
June 23, 2016  Innovation Strategy consultation in Canada
June 13, 2016  Review of Canada Federal Support for Fundamental Science

Some of these consultations can be found on the government's open dialogue site ConsultingCanadians.gc.ca

post based on information from my personal blog

Innovation Strategy consultation in Canada

the Government of Canada will focus on six areas for action:

• promoting an entrepreneurial and creative society
• supporting global science excellence
• building world-leading clusters and partnerships
• growing companies and accelerating clean growth
• competing in a digital world
• improving ease of doing business

press release - Building an inclusive and innovative Canada - June 14, 2016

The Innovation Agenda will look at how to strengthen applied research while promoting partnerships with businesses so that the knowledge and discoveries generated in the lab make their way to the market.

In other words, support for world-class research is critical to making innovation a national priority.

Speech: Launch of Innovation Agenda – Minister Duncan (Minister of Science) - June 14, 2016

The ideas market has launched, you can follow the short link for more information at canada.ca/innovation which will take you to the ISED site http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/062.nsf/eng/home or go directly to the ideas market site at

http://nationofinnovators.ca/index.php?lang=en

You can see the ideas under category Global science excellence at http://nationofinnovators.ca/ideas?view=ideas&layout=1pagetwocol&challenge_id=2

You can also tweet ideas, using hashtag #CdnInnovation

As well, the government has opened a two-week window of consultation on Reddit, which I think means it will close July 6, 2016.

There was a National Press Gallery event (which the above speech is from) and a Canada 2020 event at the Chateau Laurier.  The Canada 2020 event was livestreamed and the archive is available on YouTube.

I particularly recommend the presentation by Zayna Khayat, which runs from  41:44 to 57:50.  This link will start the video at that time: https://youtu.be/XwyRybnBiMI?t=41m44s

A reminder that the innovation strategy consultation is running in parallel with three other potentially-relevant consultations:

• consultation on support for fundamental science
• consultation on draft Open Government Action Plan 2016-2018 (including open science) closing June 30, 2016
• consultation on revisions to Access to Information closing June 30, 2016

consultation on draft 2016-2018 Open Gov Action Plan for Canada

The Government has launched the final consultation phase on the 2016-2018 Open Government Action Plan, Canada's third plan for the international Open Government Partnership.

http://open.canada.ca/en/consultations/canadas-new-plan-open-government-2016-2018

You can provide feedback to the draft plan by commenting on the page or by emailing [email protected]

UPDATE: Consultation closes June 30, 2016.  ENDUPDATE

It includes an open science commitment, building on the 2014-2016 commitment.

2016-2018 Commitment 14: Increase Openness of Federal Science Activities (Open Science)

Disclaimer: I work on the open science commitment.

Twitter:

• @TBS_Canada
• #opengovcan

Previous Plans

• Open Government Action Plan 2012-2014 (first plan)
• Open Government Action Plan 2014-2016 (second plan)
• 2014-2016 open science commitment

Plans run according to the Open Government Partnership Canada calendar, from July to June across two years (e.g. the third plan will run from approximately July 2016 to June 2018).

Previously:
April 5, 2016  Open Government in Canada - 2016 consultations and Google Hangout
February 2, 2016  Canada - Open Science 2014-2015 assessment for OGP/OGAP

Open Government in Canada - 2016 consultations and Google Hangout

Minister Brison (President of the Treasury Board) will host a Google Hangout on Open Government, specifically on Canada's next national action plan for open government (as part of Canada's participation in the Open Government Partnership).

Google Hangout

• Wednesday April 6, 2016 at 1pm Eastern (13h)
• hashtag #OpenGovCan
• Twitter @TBS_Canada
• check open.canada.ca for more information

UPDATE 2016-04-10: Video of the 30 minute Hangout is available.

UPDATE 2016-04-11: Transcript of the Hangout will be posted to http://open.canada.ca/en/consultations/hangout160406  ENDUPDATE

Consultations

From March 31 to May 15, 2016 the government is running an online ideas consultation ("ideas market") where open government ideas for the Action Plan 2016-2018 can be submitted, upvoted, searched, and commented upon.

You can see the current ideas and submit your own at

Help shape Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2016–18

You can sort ideas by date, most popular, and most commented, but there aren't separate URLs for those options.

There will also be in-person consultations and you can email a detailed submission to [email protected]

The draft plan will be online in June 2016 for consultation.

Separately, from May 1 to July 1, 2016 there will be online and in-person consultations about the Access to Information Act.

Budget

In Chapter 7 Open and Transparent Government of Budget 2016,

Expanding Open Data Initiatives

The Government is committed to accelerating and expanding open data initiatives and to better involving Canadians in policy-making. Budget 2016 proposes to provide $11.5 million over five years to double the Treasury Board Secretariat’s budget for open government activities. This funding will allow the Treasury Board Secretariat to enhance its capacity to support engagement with Canadians, to design and deliver an ambitious open government strategy and to accelerate the provision of digital content.

Table 7.1 Open and Transparent Government indicates this $11.5 million will be allocated as $2.5 million in 2016-2017 and $2.5 million in 2017-2018, with the remaining $6.5 million from 2018-2021.

Presentations and Information

Minister Brison presented at the Canadian Open Dialogue Forum.

You can see the presentation on YouTube, from 41:40 to 1:02:48

https://youtu.be/HS9JXTj4ZBw?t=41m40s

The speaking notes are available, along with a news release.

The Action Plan 2016-2018

In his speaking notes and as delivered, Minister Brison indicates

Strategy on Open Government

Beginning today, Canadians can go to open.canada.ca to tell us their views on what should be in the next strategy on Open Government.

We’ll also be holding in-person discussions and using the technology at our disposal to consult with Canadians in a number of cities across the country.

The details of this process are available at open.canada.ca.

The plan resulting from the consultation will be released in the summer. It will cover the full range of open government actions, from open data all the way to open science.

Previous Plans

• Open Government Action Plan 2012-2014 (first plan)
• Open Government Action Plan 2014-2016 (second plan)

Plans run according to the Open Government Partnership Canada calendar, from July to June across two years (e.g. the second plan runs from July 2014 to June 2016).

Previously:
February 2, 2016  Canada - Open Science 2014-2015 assessment for OGP/OGAP
November 6, 2014  Open Science in Canada's 2nd Open Gov Plan

Disclaimer: I work on the Open Science commitment of Action Plan 2014-2016.

Canada - Open Science 2014-2015 assessment for OGP/OGAP

Canada is a member of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP).

Canada's second Open Government Action Plan (OGAP) 2014-2016, released November 2014, contains an Open Science commitment.

The OGP requires yearly self-assessment and independent assessment reports.

Both reports have now been released.  The commenting period for the self-assessment closed January 18, 2016, but the commenting period for the independent assessment just opened today (February 2, 2016).

• Canada - 2014-2015 independent assessment for public comment (PDF) - Open Science is on pages 43-46
• Canada - Open Science 2014-2015 self-assessment
• Canada - Open Science commitment in OGAP 2014-2016
• Canada - Open Government Action Plan 2014-2016

UPDATE 2016-02-03: To comment on Canada's 2015 independent assessment, use the web form or email [email protected] ENDUPDATE

Disclaimer: I work on the Open Science commitment.

Twitter

• Open Government Partnership @opengovpart
• Open Government Partnership Independent Reporting Mechanism @OGP_IRM

Websites

• Canada - Open Government http://open.canada.ca/en/about-open-government
• OGP - Canada http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/canada/
• OGP - Canada - Action Plans
• OGP - Canada - Self-Assessments
• OGP - Canada - independent assessments
• OGP - Canada - Calendar (PDF)
• OGP - all independent assessment reports

 

Previously:
November 6, 2014  Open Science in Canada's 2nd Open Gov Plan

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