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Data-Driven Government: How Oakville Won $7 Million For Growth

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Discover how the Town of Oakville transformed its municipal services through innovative data management, which allowed them to successfully justify their case for $7 million in funding and completely reshaped their community planning processes.

When Oakville's planning team found themselves repeatedly digging through the same data manually for every request, they realized there had to be a better way. They created the Oakville Data Hub—a solution that has saved countless hours and helped secure millions of dollars in essential provincial funding from Ontario’s Building Faster Fund.

Follow the journey from frustration to innovation as the team standardized metrics, built trust through transparency and created a system that—if adopted elsewhere—could change how municipalities across the country approach data management and information exchange.

What you'll learn:

  • What the Town of Oakville has done to communicate its progress towards growth mandates
  • How centralized data management has eliminated countless hours of manual work
  • How transparency builds trust with staff, the province and the community
  • Real-world examples of how access to data and data visualization improved public spaces

Timestamps:

00:00 Childhood Passions: The Origins of Innovation
00:45 Planning for Oakville's Future: The Data Challenge
01:45 Manual Data Struggles: Why Change Was Needed
02:05 Creating the Oakville Data Hub Solution
02:45 Defining Key Metrics for Housing Data
03:30 Building Trust Through Data Transparency
04:30 Expanding to a Town-Wide Data Resource
05:20 Real-Time Access: Transforming Decision-Making
06:00 Securing $7 Million in Provincial Funding: The Building Faster Fund
07:25 Community Impact: Bronte Market Square Transformation
08:50 The Path Forward
09:00 Future Vision: Province-Wide Data Collaboration

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