Policy Paper
Engaging Toronto’s Digital Infrastructure Strategic Framework (DISF) to Model Trusted Data Sharing
Sharing data across City of Toronto divisions can generate insights that support improvements to policy and service delivery. The complexity and range of municipal and provincial data infrastructure can create unintended obstacles to data sharing, hindering the capacity for identifying and implementing improvements.
This report addresses the complex issues of City divisional data sharing by analyzing formal and informal process of data flow and blockages. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for a robust data governance framework to facilitate data sharing to improve programs
and services while still abiding by provincial legislation that is focused on protecting individual privacy.