Building the City of Vancouver's Open Data GIS Platform
Presented by Meng Li, GIS Applications Manager, City of Vancouver

This presentation will talk about the City of Vancouver experience in implementing the Open Data Initiative with a government-as-platform approach for fulfilling government roles in a new era of open government. The City has focused more on publishing geospatial data and on building a more open-data-ready technology platform that includes both a front-end portal as well as back-end enterprise systems. The topics of the presentation include the strategies and approach we have taken, and opportunities and challenges we have identified since the project implementation in 2009. We are very proud that the City has won the 2011 British Columbia Business Innovator award for its open data initiative (http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/2011/04/04/city-of-vancouver ).