The 2018 Survey of Albertans on Culture and Tourism is a province-wide telephone survey of 1,000 adult Albertans designed to understand participation in and public appreciation of: • Arts and Culture, • Tourism, • Sports, • Heritage, and • Recreation. Now, through the Alberta Open Government Portal, you can access the data from the survey. […]
Open Data
Right to Know Week: September 24-28, 2018
Did you know that September 24-28 this year is Right to Know Week in Canada? Canada celebrates this week every year to raise awareness of a citizen’s right to access public information. In the spirit of open government and transparency, the Alberta Open Government Portal provides access to government data and information. An important part […]
Our Most Recent Accomplishment: The Federated Open Data Search Pilot
This summer, the Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada launched the Federated Open Data Search Pilot Project. This project is a collaboration between our two programs that is fostering the creation of a federated open data search capability. This ‘federation’ (a simultaneous search of multiple resources) means that visitors to the open data […]
Happy Anniversary to Us!
This summer, the Alberta Open Government Program celebrated the fifth anniversary of our Open Government Portal. What we are celebrating is a portal that provides access to Alberta data, publications, graphs and charts that the government creates. We celebrate: That the number of datasets that we launched in our first version of the portal has […]
From vision, determination and rolling up of sleeves: eco-data now on Open Data Portal
At the end of August, the department’s rangeland management team made 65+ years of ecological data available on the Government of Alberta’s Open Data Portal. It’s a significant step on the path toward making the data the government collects more readily available to anyone who needs it. “The real advantage is that anyone can find […]
Alberta Open Data: Sole-Source Service Contracts
The Government of Alberta Sole-Source Service Contract database provides information on sole-source service contracts of $10,000 or more made by Government of Alberta departments. The database has recently been updated with an additional 213 contracts with start dates on or before December 31, 2017. Government of Alberta sole-source service contract data is also available in […]
New Dataset – Alberta Oil Sands Royalty Data
The data provided gives an overview of the costs, revenue and royalties paid for each oil sands project in Alberta for 2016. For more information about Alberta oil sands royalties, please visit here.
Observations and Reflections on the Past and Future of Open Government
After five years leading the Alberta Open Government Program, it is with mixed feelings that I am moving on to tackle other challenges within the Government of Alberta. And so here are my observations of the last five years and reflection on the challenges and opportunities as we look ahead to the next five. In […]
How I Used Open Data this Summer
Submitted by: Kirk MacLeod, Open Data Team Lead, Open Government Program As someone who has worked in Open Government since 2014, one of the questions I’m often asked is to give examples of real world scenarios in which open data can be used by the average person in a day-to-day way. A really great example […]
Non-Profit Organizations in Alberta
This dataset is a listing of non-profit organizations in Alberta as well as extra-provincial registration of organizations from other provinces and countries. In Alberta, incorporation can take place under the Agricultural Societies Act, Companies Act, Religious Societies Lands Act, Societies Act and a small number of private acts. This list indicates the type of organization, the […]