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ISED Departmental Data Strategy: The Way Forward

Vision:

ISED leverages the power of data to foster a growing, competitive and knowledge based economy.

Mission:

By providing employees with the data, skills and tools they need, we will achieve excellence in serving Canadians and Canadian businesses.

Business Drivers

  • Enhanced service delivery
  • Evidence based policies, research and evaluation -
  • Strengthened reporting capacity and story telling
  • Enriched internal services
  • Improved regulation and enforcement

Goals

  • Canadians and Canadian businesses are better informed and served
  • ISED adopts a data culture where data are discoverable, accessible, secure and of high quality
  • ISED's talent base is enhanced with new skills and experimentation is promoted
  • Public trust is honoured by ensuring that data are handled ethically and securely

What are we doing?

There are six pillars of the ISED Data Strategy, each of which has high level initiatives in three phases of implementation; laying the foundation, building the momentum and adopting a data culture. The following table addresses each pillar by phase of implementation.

Laying the foundations

Building the momentum

Adopting a data culture

Data governance

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Data-related leadership established
  • Chief Data Office
  • Data Governance Structure
  • Identify key data stewards & champions
  • Identify processes to manage data at enterprise level (sharing & storing protocols)

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Culture shift across ISED
  • Data Steward and Champion network established
  • Implement & oversee data processes

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People value their data and treat it as an asset
  • Monitor adoption of data processes & standards aligned with GoC
  • Data Stewards facilitate access to data

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Data Access

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Data access challenges are well understood
  • Inventory & valuation of data assets
  • Inventory data sharing agreements
  • Assessment of legislative & policy framework for data sharing

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Work on transformative data access initiatives
  • Develop common consent statement for data sharing
  • Create roadmap for a data sharing hub
  • Partner with Sectors to pilot data sharing and data integration Investigate data sharing opportunities across all levels of government

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ISED data are open by default
  • Launch common consent statement for data sharing & monitor data sharing
  • Deploy self-service data sharing hub
  • Expand data sharing to all levels of government

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Data Framework

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Data framework and models are developed
  • Data standards, including Common Business Profile and dictionaries, developed and piloted Framework for ethical, secure use & storage of data developed
  • Detailed data models for collection, acquisition, processing and storage conceptualized and piloted

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Put in place data framework and models
  • Process to handle and use data are known
  • Quality assurance standards developed Data standards launched
  • Framework for ethical & secure data use implemented
  • Data models in place across the department

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Protection of data via privacy by design
  • Staff confidently conduct work with high quality data, with well-established data standards, definitions, and the privacy and security of Canada's data assured

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Talent

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Innovation

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Technology

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