I. Service Policies
Canada's service policies are more complete than those of other countries, including release policies, fee policies, copyright issues, privacy issues, etc. These policies are reflected in laws and policies at the federal and provincial and territorial levels.
(1) Federal Legal and Policy Framework
1. Federal Legal Framework
The legal and regulatory framework that affects the release of Canadian national spatial data includes:
( 1) Information Access Act. Provides access to data archives under the control of the government, consistent with the principle that government data should be open to the public, but access must be limited and refined, and the release of information must be monitored by government agencies and not dependent on the oversight of the government itself.
In accordance with the Access to Information Act, information in databases that is available to the public, whether or not it is in paper or electronic form, is considered to be public and therefore protected by the Act; and the method of electronic distribution makes the information easily accessible by means of viable information.
Access to data under the control of government agencies is not subject to user fees. The appropriate imposition of user fees should be in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, such as the User Fees Act and various different other acts and policies.
( 2) Copyright Act. The Copyright Act provides for the term of copyright of any product, including the original geodatabase. The government, as the owner of the copyright, has the exclusive right to use the data in any way, as well as the right to authorize private and public users or organizations.
( 3) Financial Management Act. This law mainly regulates fees and charges related to the release of information and provides some principles.
The legality of charging fees for access to government databases stems from the provisions of Section 19 of the Fiscal Administration Act, which deals with the use of services and equipment. It is worth noting that section 19 only applies where the honorariums and fees do not exceed the cost incurred by the department providing the data or related services. When gratuities or fees exceed the cost of providing the data or related services, specific authorization from the government may be required.
Outside the Financial Management Act, fees and charges for services must be prescribed by the department or have specific authorization from each minister.
( 4) Official Languages Act. Publishing a geodatabase, like any other product, needs to be done in the official language, including information presented in electronic or paper form.
( 5) User Fee Act. Requires federal departments to consult with taxpayers before fixing or increasing external user fees, or before increasing user fees for applications or extensions of time periods; benchmarks against standards established in other countries; establishes an independent panel of advisers to provide advice on resolving complaints; and reports to the Houses of Congress on proposals for user fees by trusted ministers.
The User Fee Act applies only to gratuities, fees or taxes.
( 6) Other Acts. Other Acts of the department may contain data release policies with specific orientation and authority.
2. Federal Policy Framework
The framework for government policy on geographic information dissemination also consists of a number of policies and decrees from both central government agencies and individual spatial data producing departments or agents. These acts include:
( 1) Government of Canada Communications Policy;
( 2) Policy on Service Enhancement with New Information and Technology;
( 3) Policy on Service Standards for External Use Fees;
( 4) Policy on Government Information Management;
( 5) Policy on Use of the Electronic Web;
( 6) Policy on fees and royalties for obtaining copyright licenses;
( 7) Policy on Internet use by citizens;
( 8) Policy on Internet regulation by the Government of Canada;
( 9) Guidance on operator database practices.
3. Federal Acts and Internet Policies
The release of geospatial data in Canada is not only driven and facilitated by centralized legal and regulatory frameworks governing the release of governmental information, but also progresses through a number of science-based federal departments and agents, through Acts documented in the form of legislation, as well as through a wide variety of different built-in policies that support the following The particular objectives stated:
( 1) Income Protection. Revenue protection is a frequently required goal, and in order for all users to contribute their fair share to the goal of expense recovery, revenue protection policies prohibit the redistribution of already priced products or the use of royalties as part of redistribution.
( 2) Data quality maintenance. Data quality maintenance achieves this goal by setting restrictions on data modification.
( 3) Data upgrading. Some organizations hire the private business sector to sell data for them, encouraging wider use of the data and setting restrictions to protect the private partner's revenue.
( 4) Data identification. While government approval/licensing is one way to ensure reasonable identification of an agency's contribution to data, it does not appear to be the primary facilitator of agency initiative.
( ii) Provincial and Territorial Legal and Policy Frameworks
Provinces and territories will be refined over time through consultation with the Canadian Federal Council on GEOMATICS (GEOMATICS is the scientific and technical science of the acquisition, analysis, interpretation and utilization of geospatial data).
( iii) Information Release Policy
The Government of Canada has made a lot of useful explorations and attempts in the practice of government geographic data release, including the elaboration and evaluation of the environment for the release of government spatial data, the establishment of a model for the release of government geospatial data, as well as a whole set of laws and policy systems on the release of national spatial information.
Canada The Access to Information Act (AIA) stipulates that government departments should open up data resources to the public, provide the right to freely obtain and access information under the control of the government in an effective and efficient manner for all of its citizens, and at the same time, access to data must be restricted and refined, and the release of information must be under the control of the governmental agencies and not depend on the supervision of the government itself.
The Access to Information Act also elaborates that the content of released data includes "any letters, memoranda, books, plans, maps, drawings, diagrams, pictorials or icons, photographs, films, microfilms, sound recordings, videotapes, and any other documentary material, regardless of its physical form or character, and any related copies thereof. ", database information that is open to the public, whether or not in paper or electronic form, is considered to be public and therefore protected under the Information Access Act, noting that electronic methods of distribution are commonly viable means of information.
The effective implementation of Canada's spatial information dissemination policy is strongly supported by the level of support provided by the Canadian spatial information distribution and sales network and the high-speed Internet. Canadian geologic agencies have developed a relatively standardized model of information production, distribution, sales and service in the area of information release.
The development trend of spatial information dissemination in Canada is to sell data directly to advanced technical users through the Internet, and at the same time to utilize the dealer network to open up the mass market. In contrast, the goal of both conventional product and digital map information distribution policies is to move as much as possible of the retailing, marketing, product packaging and after-sales service functions to dealers or agencies.
II. Service Standards
In all sectors of Canadian society, it is increasingly recognized that basic geologic information is the basis for sound decision-making in a wide range of activities, including logistics, investment, public **** policy, civic mobility and civic awareness of environmental protection, health research, resource management and emergency preparedness. The rapid development and general growth of data dissemination processing and networking over the past decade has increased the demand for a wide range of geologic information. However, the data distribution and licensing architectures used to facilitate, expand, and support the use of government geologic information have generally not kept pace with the growth of technological capabilities and the development of user needs. The lack of a more integrated and consistent architecture for the distribution and licensing of government geologic information is perceived by many data users to be detrimental to the goal of promoting its widespread use and benefits.
Responding to the need for an improved distribution model for the dissemination and licensing of government geological information, Dissemination of Government Geological Information in Canada - A Guide to Best Practices sets out a consistent framework for the three most commonly used models for disseminating and licensing government geological information in Canada, which are The Unrestricted Use Model, the End-User Model, and the Disseminator Model.
The first model, often referred to as an unrestricted use license agreement, promotes widespread use and reuse of licensed geological information. It places few restrictions on how the data can be used and specifically allows for further dissemination of the data.
The second model provides the licensee with specific rights with respect to the licensed geologic information, except for the right to disseminate.
The disseminator model applies when the goal of the government's geologic information manufacturing sector is to promote widespread use of its data in value-added applications through a system.
Dissemination of Geological Information in the Government of Canada - A Guide to Best Practices provides a rationale for fair use for each model, explains how each model is built on the ***same structure, shows how they relate to each other, and provides clear guidelines to assist those engaged in the licensees in selecting the most appropriate model and ancillary license agreements.
Third, service assessment
Providers of geo-information in Canada value user feedback and aim to achieve external assessment of the organization and its products and services through user evaluation of service quality.
( a) User feedback
Improve the survey response rate is the key to collecting user opinions and user satisfaction, user feedback methods include: small questionnaires; listening to the user's opinion of the General Assembly; computer online forums; tracking the phone and e-mail contact information and other ways.
In Canada, the government often entrusts the task of collecting user opinions to relevant intermediaries or consulting organizations, taking advantage of the intermediaries or consulting organizations to extract a wealth of information about the geospatial information policy orientation, service methods, customer satisfaction and various technical systems that support the service, and to obtain first-hand and second-hand data materials as multi-source evidence, to improve the quality of government spatial data services. basis for conducting quality improvement of government spatial data services.
There are also multiple ways of evaluating user opinions, such as the Department of Earth Sciences, which has established a customer satisfaction measurement campaign.
(ii) Customer Satisfaction Measurement
Customer Satisfaction Measurement is the process of obtaining qualitative and quantitative information that demonstrates the extent to which customers' expectations are being met. It is an activity that Geoscience Canada undertakes to investigate the extent to which users are satisfied with the geoinformatics products and services it provides, and to use the feedback to adjust the content and delivery of the services and products.
1. The Role of Customer Satisfaction Measurement Activities
Measuring customer satisfaction is a very important activity, through which the following effects can be achieved:
( 1) to improve the quality of service;
( 2) to illustrate the effectiveness of the operation of the program from the point of view of the customer, and what adjustments need to be made;
( 3) to determine which customers are the most important for the product or service. are most/less important to the product or service;
( 4) to provide feedback to staff on how customers view their products and services;
( 5) to help meet cost recovery or other business objectives;
( 6) to obtain feedback that meets customers' expectations for optimizing investments;
( 7) to ensure that programs, products, and services are operating well under today's mission and resource levels;
( 8) to ensure that programs, products, and services are operating well under today's mission and resource levels;
( 9) to ensure that the program, product, and services are operating well under today's mission and resource levels. Ensuring that programs, products, and services are the most effective and efficient given today's mission and resource levels.
2. Procedures for Customer Satisfaction Measurement Activities
The Systematic Procedures for Customer Satisfaction Measurement Activities consists of an eight-step process for executing any Customer Satisfaction Measurement Activity initiative that can help to ensure that the program is managed in a systematic manner. The 8 steps are:
( 1) Identify key programs, products and services. Figuring out what the department's work outputs are and who will receive, use, or benefit from them is often a useful starting point for identifying relevant programs, products, and services.
( 2) Determine who your customers are. In addition to direct customers, it is important to consider the impact of the department's work on indirect customers. Indirect customers are often not personally connected to the Earth Sciences Department, but still have a close relationship with how a product or service is delivered. For example, although the public ultimately acquires knowledge from groups or organizations in the relevant scientific fields, these groups or organizations are themselves direct customers of the Department. The CMA produces geological information and research of specific interest to the natural science, engineering and academic communities, and this information is widely accessible to the public.
In general, the best way to identify customers is to consider first who receives the products or services provided by the department, and then who will be the end users of those products or services. Typically, the people who receive the products or services offered by the department are intermediate customers in the chain of transactions that lead to the final customer. For example, topographic maps from the Cartographic Services Department are sold through licensing agreements to retail distributors who, in turn, sell them to the public. As a result, third-party services also become important.
Within Natural Resources Canada and Earth Sciences, there is a broad customer base. Some staff serve primarily internal customers, others serve primarily external customers, such as federal and provincial agencies, scientific and professional groups, or the business community; and still others serve primarily the public. You may have to deal with several different customer groups on the basis of a particular product or service. In this case, it is important to determine whether you want to measure all of them or just one (with the basic criterion of being able to identify key customers).
( 3) Setting objectives. When setting objectives, you need to consider the specific metrics that will be used to measure satisfaction. This goes beyond simply asking customers whether they are satisfied with a product or service; it also involves determining the importance that customers assign to a product or service and the extent to which it meets their expectations.
( 4) Develop a measurement strategy. At this point, it is important to determine how, when, and from whom to seek information. The choice of methodology depends on the objectives, as well as on constraints such as budget, schedule, detail and accuracy requirements, and access to qualified staff. The overall measurement strategy may be based on a collection of methods that elicit a wide range of evidence from which conclusions can be drawn in relation to the level of customer satisfaction. For example, customer feedback may be sought proactively, either through direct customer contact or indirect methods such as analyzing existing customer data records.
For special initiatives, determine the level of formality required. When feasible, formalized measures are needed, a systematic approach should be used to measure customer satisfaction. Satisfaction is relative rather than absolute. A well-conceived strategy will take into account the need for information that can be compared over time or with a meaningful benchmark value. This will determine whether the level of satisfaction increases, stays the same, or decreases.
( 5) Selecting methods for obtaining customer feedback. There are several methods that can be used to measure customer satisfaction, including: customer surveys (mail, telephone, electronic), customer consultations (center group meetings, panel discussions, personal interviews) and observation. Depending on the objectives and constraints of the campaign, one or a combination of methods may be chosen.
( 6) Design and test measurement tools. Data collection instruments such as questionnaires, interview/discussion guides, mediator schedules, and observation checklists should be designed with measurement objectives in mind. Consider using closed questions (as opposed to open-ended) when designing questionnaires, as they take less time for respondents to complete and are easier to administer. Although somewhat dependent on the medium used, try to keep the survey response time to a reasonable length (15-20 minutes), otherwise respondent fatigue can be an influencing factor and may have a negative impact on response rates. For face-to-face in-person interviews, an hour is a good maximum. Also, try to keep the questions neutral to avoid bias.
( 7) Gather and analyze information. It is important to be as accurate and efficient as possible when gathering information, so the Canadian government often delegates this part of the process to specialized consulting firms.
When collecting and analyzing information, take appropriate steps to ensure that objectivity is maintained; this will protect the integrity and credibility of the findings. Ensure that there are sufficient unbiased drafts to avoid the possibility of actual or perceived bias occurring. It can mean getting help from internal third parties (e.g., Natural Resources Canada Exchange, quality consultants, business development associations) who can contribute expertise but do not have a direct stake in the results. It may also include hiring external consultants.
Take care to interpret findings as objectively as possible. Low satisfaction is not necessarily a bad sign - the real value of customer satisfaction measurement for Earth Sciences as an organization is in identifying opportunities for improvement.
( 8) Putting findings to work. It is essential to obtain the background, procedures, findings, conclusions, and recommendations from customer satisfaction activities in the form of a formal written report. This ensures that information can be exchanged with those who also have a stake in the activity and its results (e.g., staff or supervisors). Documentation of the findings, in the form of a summary of the results for participants to utilize at their request, will provide the basis for comparative analyses over time.
Acting on the results of the study by the Canadian Geophysical Survey (from the customer's perspective) will determine the success of the initiative. The growing focus on implementation results means that it is no longer enough to simply view reporting as the final stage of the measurement process; the results must be used to implement meaningful change - change that leads to improved performance.
IV. Charging for Services
( i) Pricing Policy
The price of spatial data products and services and their pricing is a key issue in the Geological Agency of Canada's spatial data services policy and its implementation. In most cases, all types of spatial information and data collected by the Geological Agency of Canada in the performance of its own responsibilities are now being made available to a wide range of data users on a fee-for-service basis, with prices determining, to some extent, the availability of digital products and the extent, quantity, and quality of the data products that are available, and the Geological Agency of Canada plays a key role in the pricing process of the data products. Important regulatory authorities, particularly federal and provincial, influence data pricing and thus the availability of digital geospatial data.
Because of the prominent role of geographic information in the Canadian and global economy, all levels of government in Canada always ensure that the value of the data is maximized in the production, use, and distribution of geographic information. Once data are captured at significant cost, they are used to the maximum extent possible to support public and private decision-making. In keeping with this, the Canadian Geological Agency has adopted a data product pricing strategy based on the concept of cost recovery for the pricing of government spatial data.
A cost recovery policy is one that operates data collection, organization, processing, transmission, and information storage as a business practice, and recovers the full cost of information generation through information dissemination. The basic premise of cost-recovery policy for data distribution is that there should be a strong enough copyright protection system to protect the public **** information from piracy, and at the same time for the data distribution, it should also be signed with the user of the data with restrictive use agreements (such as prohibition of copying, prohibition of re-distribution, etc.).
Natural Resources Canada is responsible for the collection and maintenance of publicly available information. In order to achieve consistency between ministries, a framework policy on external funding and cooperative activities has been adopted, which is a compromise between public interest and cost recovery: concern for the public good is the essence of the powers conferred on government by the people. First and foremost, it works for the benefit of all Canadians. Believes that the public and private sector needs for resources, external financing and other cooperative activities are beneficial and consistent with the public good. Supports government departmental policies on external user fees, which shift some or all of the costs of a given activity from the majority of taxpayers to those who benefit most directly from that activity. It promotes a more efficient allocation of resources by introducing market mechanisms for goods and services.
Geoscience Canada, part of Natural Resources Canada, is the agency responsible for the national assurance system for surveying and mapping, remote sensing information and technology, and GIS expertise. Its role has gradually shifted to a balancing function. It provides information for national governance, national defense, defense of the national system, maintenance of economic development and environmental protection, and is truly a public **** business sector. It operates on a somewhat commercial basis. Customers fund it in a very direct way, it provides customers with information that meets their requirements and requires users to pay directly some, but not all, of the costs of providing and maintaining that information.
In short, the Geological Agency of Canada operates on a partial cost-recovery model, whereby the cost of producing the "first copy" of the map information is paid for by a public *** grant, and the cost of further reproduction, distribution, and sale is recovered through user fees. The agency has adopted the typical Canadian model of not going to either extreme of the cost-recovery argument, but adopting this intermediate policy as it sees fit.
( ii) Charge Management
The Government of Canada issued a federal policy on cost recovery as early as December 1989.
The Canadian government's policy on cost recovery is summarized in the following table. The Cost Recovery and Fee Policy of the Secretariat of the Federal Department of Finance of Canada covers a wide range of issues, mainly relating to the timing of fees, types of fees, and the relationship between fees and costs. However, the policy does not detail the actual policy implementation paths used by agencies to recover costs after deciding that their products and services are available.
The Department of the Treasury has made a policy statement on external user fees for goods, services, property, rights and privileges. Included in this document are the following principles: user fees are a way to promote equity by equitably charging the beneficiaries of a service and thereby promoting the equitable use of government financial services by shifting all or a portion of the funding for government activities from the average taxpayer to those customers who can more directly and personally benefit from a product or service. At the same time, it accelerates the commercial operation of providing information services by increasing the variety of appropriate information that users are willing to pay for, and improves the efficiency of the service.
The policy statement adjusts for cost recovery using a series of exceptions below total cost recovery, where total cost recovery would adversely affect access to programs or other government departments, or where it would have serious consequences for particular user groups.
The Canadian Information Access Act provides that access to data under the control of a government agency is not subject to the imposition of user fees. The appropriate imposition of user fees should be in accordance with relevant legislation, such as the User Fees Act and a variety of different other acts and policies.
The legality of levying user fees for access to government databases stems from the relevant provisions of the Fiscal Administration Act on the use of services and equipment. Notably, this applies to honorariums and fees that do not exceed the cost incurred by the department providing the data or related services. Where gratuities or fees exceed the cost of providing the data or related services, specific government authorization may be required.
The user fee method applies only to honorariums, fees or levies. A federal department is required to consult with taxpayers before fixing or increasing an external user fee, or before increasing a user fee for an application or an extension of a period of time; benchmarking against corresponding standards established in other countries; establishing an independent advisory panel to provide advice on resolving complaints; or, the Secretary reporting to the Houses of Congress on a proposal for a user fee.
In addition, the Canadian legislature has made detailed provisions on standards for external user fee services, fees and royalties for obtaining licenses to use the Crown's copyrights.
Currently, Geoscience Canada publishes a list of approved product and service prices for 11 items: Handling and media fees, National Topographic System maps, Canadian Map Reference Database, Geological Survey of Canada products and services, National Aerial Photographic Library products, Geographic Names on Canada, CSRS (Canadian Spatial Reference System) products and services, Canadian Geospatial Reference System online database, Canadian Geological Survey products and services, and Canadian Geospatial Reference System products and services. Online Database) products and services, Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) products and services, Arctic Continental Shelf (ACS) project, planning fees for remote sensing products, and products and services provided by the Canadian Cadastre. Their price per unit ranges from $7 to thousands of dollars.
V. Copyright Policy
As noted above, the Acts that typically affect the dissemination of government geological information include: the Access to Information Act, the Financial Management Act, the Official Languages Act, the User Fees Act, the Copyright Act, the Access to Information Act, and other Acts (sectoral Acts may include special directives and mandates for the dissemination of information). Of these, the Copyright Act and the Access to Information Act are the key laws for the Government of Canada to access information in government space.
(a) Copyright and Licensing Laws and Policies
Federal and provincial/territorial governments uphold copyright, charge fees for data, and restrict further use. Most agencies have developed or are in the process of developing policies for licensing these data for commercial use. These policies are often developed over a long period of time: lessons learned from the sale of paper maps have been applied to the sale of digital map information.
At the federal level, the Access to Information Act establishes three rules: a fundamental right of access to government records; that releases from access rights should be specific and limited; and provisions for independent comment on public resolutions. Published material or material that is readily available to the public is not subject to the Act. The vast majority of Canadian provinces have similar legislation. Several other federal and provincial statutes affect access to information, with the Copyright Act having the greatest impact. Whether in federal or provincial law, the Copyright Act is the basis used by governments to access the value of information resources. Combined with the lifting of "published information" and "information of commercial value to the government" under the Access to Information Act, the Crown Copyright has become a tool for controlling access to public * * * information. The government's monopolistic economic interest in the crown copyright is a clear barrier to the release of information through Access to Information.
One of the distinguishing features of Canada's digital data policy and its implementation is the Crown copyright requirement. In Canada, crown copyright requirements, along with complex authorization agreements, limit the widespread use of geospatial data within or between departments. The use of copyright and licensing to prevent data redistribution (e.g., to protect pricing policies) puts the goal of maximizing the use of data at odds with the corresponding benefits, and therefore copyright and approval requirements should be used minimally.
However, licensing and copyright should not prevent the use of data, but rather protect the integrity of the data, and it is necessary to establish a "trademark" as an indication of the quality of the data (and in particular to develop a trademark for framed data that promotes the integrity of the data). And this is only effective if the data is considered complete and appropriate (e.g., in circulation), which in some cases requires additional investment in data collection and maintenance. For example, if a data organization provides raw data products, once the data set is made available to users, the data organization is required to retain the unique data source while providing the data trademark to the documentation or product. Only if the trademark remains intact is it possible to allow that user to mail the same data file to others for free on his own web page.
To ensure that the trademark is valid, working with value-added data redistributors and data publishers should make them aware that the original data source is part of the copyright. This will help identify trademarks, provide a level playing field and increase the visibility of the public *** sector's investment. Major changes made to the dataset by users should be fed back to the data department so that updates and modifications can be made to the original data.
(ii) Licensing
In Canada, in order to access any of the products on the list of data products, one must first go through the process of obtaining the relevant license agreement. Because data is copyrighted, it can be argued that government departments sell more of a right to use the data than just the data itself. Typically, users must complete a standard license agreement, but once the license is obtained, ordering the data is as simple as filling out an order form and paying the associated fee to the data reseller or data distributor.
Data products can be obtained from data distributors through the national network and, in addition, can be purchased through the Data Sales Department. The data distributor will provide the relevant license agreement with the data.
VI. PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICY
There is a great deal of geologic information that contains private information, and the protection of individual privacy is one of the most serious issues facing the geospatial information field in Canada. The protection of individual privacy and the commercial exploitation of government databases involving personal information have become a contradiction.
Citizens' distrust of government and commercial practices is growing, and they are becoming increasingly uneasy with the technology of information utilization; as a result, citizens' concern for personal privacy has risen. Predictably, the debate between proponents of the use of private information and proponents of the protection of private rights will continue to grow.
Advocates for the protection of private rights argue that government and commercial organizations may make important decisions about individuals' lives on the basis of information, often without the knowledge of the affected individuals. Advocates of the right to collect and trade in information argue that ordinary citizens are happy to give up some privacy in exchange for benefits from compiled databases. Both sides recognize that the average citizen's ability to keep his or her affairs private is declining because of the power of technology and the increasing specificity of the information collected.
VII. PARTNERSHIP POLICY
A guiding policy of partnership has been agreed upon by all federal, provincial and territorial government agencies concerned with geospatial information in Canada. The goal is to facilitate real-time access to geospatial information data resources and services to support decision-making for socio-economic development and policy development through interconnected infrastructure platforms with broad-based participation from government, private industry and the academic sector.
The relevant policies of the Geological Agency of Canada's Spatial Data Partnership are as follows:
( 1) Spatial data must be collected and accessed with fidelity to the original source, through the most feasible and effective means to enhance vertically unified management of the data;
( 2) Geospatial information data must be seamlessly integrated, possibly with the need for mediation of boundaries and management permissions. ;
( 3) Data must be captured, processed and maintained according to international standards in order to maintain the integrity of the data in the databases, increase the added value, and facilitate access and use by the users;
( 4) In addition to the agreement, the cost of capturing and managing the spatial data must be shared equally between the partners, and allow the integration of the results of the acquired data into their respective databases in order to use and distribution of their own spatial data to the shareholders;
( 5) In specific spatial data use, there can be terms and regulations coordinated between the partners, and even if there is no such agreement, for the same case, each institution should autonomously establish its own terms and regulations;
( 6) Agreements between the institutions should be communicated on a regular basis, according to the already (6) Agreements between agencies should be communicated on a regular basis and negotiated bilaterally or multilaterally on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with agreed partnership policies;
( 7) Within the framework of government agencies, educational institutions and private industry, institutional partnerships should be simple, ****exclusive, open and supportive of CGDI (Geospatial Data Platform) policies;
( 8) Within the Canadian provincial and (8) Within the Canadian provincial and federal governments, groups or agencies in partnership should assign specialized units to promote and collaborate in the development of a common geospatial information infrastructure within their own authority and within the authority of the public good;
( 9) The CGDI is a nationally based platform that must maximize the benefits to users of geospatial information, community groups and data producers, as well as private industry in different sectors. data producers and private enterprises in different fields.
Government of Canada geological agencies and private industry, consortiums and university partners have developed mechanisms for mutual trust, cooperation and ****-win cooperation.
The Geological Survey of Canada has established excellent partnerships with corporations, institutions and community groups from home and abroad through extensive multidisciplinary, multi-partner cooperation on an international scale. In the course of cooperative project work, the Geological Survey of Canada works closely with its partners, sharing resources and costs, and in a variety of ways (e.g., through technology transfer) to help Canadian resource- and environment-related businesses and sectors to excel in the face of increasingly competitive international conditions. The Government of Canada cooperates on a cost-accounting basis, but this cooperative mechanism does not mean that the Government competes with business. The Geological Institute of Canada has agreements with businesses to provide spatial data services in the form of map products, cadastral surveys, aerial photography, remote sensing, printing, and documentation.