Item - 2019.MM3.2

City Council on February 26, 2019, adopted the following:

1. City Council direct the Chief Information Officer and the City Clerk, in consultation with appropriate City staff, to develop a City-wide policy framework and governance model associated with digital infrastructure, such as smart cities, and a work plan for implementation according to the following City of Toronto policy principles:

a. privacy, transparency, and accountability;

b. public ownership and protecting the public interest; and

c. equity and human rights.

2.  City Council direct the Chief Information Officer and City Clerk, as part of the framework and governance model, to ensure that City data, as much as possible and within legislation requirements, be shared internally and externally to maximize the use of the information.

3. City Council request the Chief Information Officer and the City Clerk to consider the work of the Province of Ontario Information and Privacy Commission in this area and endeavour to avoid overlap or conflict in the policies of the City and the Information and Privacy Commission, and to include details in future reports.

4. City Council direct the City Manager, in collaboration with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the Chief Information Officer and the City Clerk, and in consultation with appropriate City staff, to conduct a City-wide public consultation process on the data governance principles and proposed model to inform the implementation of the plan to be applied to Quayside and other smart city developments; the consultations would include a jurisdictional review of others cities' work and leading institutions and organizations in this space.