Access to Information Tracker

On Hold

Filing a federal Access to Information Request in Canada currently requires sending a $5 check, by mail, to one of over 100 different departments.  Following the example of the UK site WhatDoTheyKnow, this project will allow Canadians to file Access to Information Requests, track their outstanding requests, and share the results of the request online.

The goal of this site is to collect statistics on the Access to Information process, to show:

• which departments and topics receive the most requests
• which departments take the most and least time to respond

VisibleGovernment.ca will partner with a printing company to automate the printing and mailing of requests generated online.

Preliminary mockups of the tool are publicly available here.  To get involved in the planning for this tool, join the Google Group for this project. 

Note: this project is currently on hold as we search for a way to fund its implementation.