As Canadian municipalities trend towards developing and deploying open and smart city strategies and roadmaps, they must increasingly become aware of tools, processes and procedures that produce open and geospatial data and determine the priority data that will become public and contribute to smart city contexts. Open North’s Open Smart Cities in Canada project is funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and consists of:
- An environmental-scan (E-scan) and gap analysis of smart city definitions, actors, standards, and pathways
- A Canadian smart cities assessment report from the project’s four partnering cities (Edmonton, Montreal, Guelph, and Ottawa)
- An inter-jurisdictional framework based on a case study in the Province of Ontario
- A report on international policy mobilities and guidelines for city manager practices surrounding open and geospatial data in a smart city context
About this Project
This research is led by Open North and funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) GeoConnections. The core team of experts leading the research for this project include:
- Prof. Tracey Lauriault at Carleton University
- M. David Fewer at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
- Prof. Mark S. Fox at the University of Toronto