Greater Sudbury has an open data policy, says Ward 12 candidate Jeff McIntyre, but continues to ignore it to the detriment of taxpayers
In early 2019, as with any given year, potholes were a hot topic. It seemed a particularly bad year for vehicle damage, and Sudbury.com began a feature looking at the worst potholes in the city, even coming up with a mascot, Pothole Pete.
The data feed was rejected outright, and a long back and forth ensued with the city asking for specific formatting requirements in the emails to be received. The app finally launched, but nearing the end of the worst of pothole season. “Open Data by Default” is the first principle of the G8 Open Data Charter, which was adopted by Canada in 2013. Open By Default means that data approvals should start from a position of data openness and that data should be released unless privacy, security, legal or other restrictions exist.
It is not news to most that Sudbury is over a billion dollars behind on infrastructure maintenance. This is what we mean by infrastructure debt. But what we don't know is how much farther we are falling behind every year, which is the infrastructure deficit. Unfortunately, there is no publicly visible plan that I am aware of to show the taxpayer how the cIty might make up that annual gap.
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