Data Strategy Tracker

PCO and TBS will coordinate departments on a review of real and perceived data-sharing challenges, including frictions in existing legislation, using concrete use cases leading to recommendations.

Through the newly established GC Enterprise Data Governance Framework, PCO has worked with TBS and other departments and agencies to coordinate efforts to improve data sharing by setting up the process for GC enterprise standards adoption. As a result, a first data reference standard on Canadian provinces and territories has been approved for the Government of Canada, to be implemented by all federal departments and agencies. This is an important first step in ensuring that our data assets are of better quality, in facilitating data sharing and interoperability, and in improving the use of reliable data in reporting, monitoring and decision-making not only within the Government of Canada, but also with our external partners (provincial and the public).

PCO is leading, alongside Statistics Canada, the Federal Advisory Committee on Disaggregated Data. The Committee’s goal is to enhance coordination among federal departments and agencies in the use and sharing of disaggregated data across the Government of Canada. The committee has met two times thus far in 2023, with another meeting scheduled for December 2023. In addition, PCO has delivered presentations internally and to other federal departments/agencies that build awareness and understanding of methods that make disaggregated data more accessible for interdepartmental sharing and impact analysis.

(through 2024-25) TBS-OCIO continues to work with the Information Sharing Community of Practice to leverage practical knowledge on challenges and solutions to information and data sharing for broader impact.