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Digital Literacy and Data Use

Digital literacy goes beyond data management, statistics, and visualization - it drives the impact investment movement, social media for good efforts, and collective evaluation and evidence-based decision making efforts!

CDP Annual Meeting 2017

Community Data Program Annual Meeting 2017

This year's Annual Meeting was held in Kingston. It was a wonderful event with lots of discussion and ideas! Thank you to those who joined online!

HUMA's report - Breaking the Cycle: A Study on Poverty Reduction

Here's a new report from HUMA on poverty! The HUMA committee is the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. 

The committee reports to the House of Commons on the following matters:

OPS Open Data Training - online sessions available

Join the Open Government Office as they take you on a journey through the Open Data publishing process! This interactive training session will take you through the steps required to turn your ministry's or agency's data into Open Data as required by the Open Data Directive.

CANSIM Webinar from Statistics Canada on April 26, 2017

Statistics Canada is delighted to invite you to a free online learning session on CANSIM!

Learn useful tips on how to access data from CANSIM, Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database. Highlights of this webinar include:

Transform the Sector 2017 Recap

It’s been a month since the Transform the Sector, but Powered by Data still feel energized by the conference after seeing 300 people from government, foundations, and nonprofits come together with international and Canadian experts to discu