Theme 2:
Breaking Down Barriers
We've discovered that Canadians don't really care whether
it's the provincial or the federal government providing the service, they want to know
that a service is there when they need it.
It's very important to build those partnerships across government, between levels of
government. If we don't do it then I don't think we'll live up to the expectations that we
have set ourselves.
Geoconnections
Geoconnections is about building the geographic information part of the information
highway.
It's been built pretty much from the ground up as a grassroots thing. So what we've
done is we've gotten together in a consortium arrangement with the provinces. We've
decided to share information with each other. We've decided to cost share the actual
collection and maintenance of this information. Something that Canadians might not realize
is that this kind of geographic information is used extensively in 911 operations. The
thing that guides the ambulance to your house and lets the people driving the ambulance
know where the street location is is generally a digital map.
Geoconnections is about serving people through a single window. Government has
information assets and Geoconnections is about making those assets accessible for all
Canadians.
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