Stay tuned for the Transparency Showcase, coming soon!
The submission period is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted.
Does your organization have an innovative open data or open government project or program that advances public sector transparency in Ontario?
On Right to Know Day, September 28, 2022, in an effort to increase awareness and adoption of best practices in transparency, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) has issued a Transparency Challenge to Ontario’s public institutions. Read our announcement.
Transparency is essential to democracy. It helps people understand government decision-making and the policies and issues that matter to them. Institutions need to respond to access requests, but they should also be proactive in disclosing non-identifiable information that is important for the public to know and be able to use to improve their day to day lives.
Using our online form, we invite you to showand tell us about how your transparency project or program is modern and innovative, improves government transparency in a creative way, and has a concrete and positive impact for Ontarians.
Your project or program may be featured in our Transparency Showcase.
The Transparency Challenge is open to all public sector institutions in Ontario at the provincial and municipal levels that are subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Why did the IPC launch the Transparency Challenge?
Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government is one of our four strategic priorities.  With the Transparency Challenge, we want to show great examples as a way to encourage others towards greater openness and transparency. We also want to increase public awareness and understanding of the positive impacts open data can have in concretely improving the day-to-day lives of Ontarians. This is one of several IPC initiatives to advance Ontarians’ access rights and inspiring greater transparency among public institutions.
The IPC will not be judging or endorsing the submissions we receive, but we will be featuring some projects and programs based on the criteria we’ve identified. Our role is to collect, curate and share some of these examples in a Transparency Showcase which we plan to unveil in mid-2023.
What kind of visual support should we include in the submission?
We want the Transparency Showcase to be a compelling and appealing way to illustrate and share inspiring examples. So, in the spirit of the initiative, we encourage you to be innovative with the visual support you include in your submission to tell your story. How about making an infographic or creating a simple video in which you tell us about the impact of a change in your process? So get creative and have fun with it!
