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Joseph Potvin

Joseph Potvin is an IT economist with the Enterprise Stewardship and Internal Services Strategies division, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat, Government of Canada. He coordinates the synthesis of the Government of Canada's IT expenditure reporting, and is presently managing its conversion to an architected solution for expenditure data assembly, management, statistical analysis and reporting, useful for any defined profile of investments or expenditures. The reference implementation, named "ITERation" (IT for Expenditure Reporting Automation) is licensed under the GNU-GPL, and is the first open source solution to be shared by Treasury Board Secretariat. By facilitating more accurate and timely reporting from authoritative sources, ITERation supports the goals of the government's planned Accountability Act.

For three years Mr. Potvin has also coordinated planning towards the creation of Intellectual Resources Canada (Ressources Intellectuelles Canada), an emerging inter-departmental/inter-sectoral initiative to rationalize public spending on custom intellectual assets, including software. IRCan is being created to support collective evolution of assets across combinations of public sector, commercial, academic and civil society participants, while engaging the full spectrum of business methods and technology solutions provided for in federal legislation, agreements, policies and guidelines.