Clearly Now, Trust through Transparency: A celebration of how openness, access to information, and transparency can serve the public good | Pour y voir clair : la confiance par la transparence

**Guests** Jonathon Penney Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and Law Author of Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity and Power in the Digital Age Dr. Amol Verma Co-Lead, GEMINI network Unity Health Toronto: Artificial Intelligence Models to Prevent Delirium Marco Cheng-Perri Manager, Digital Transformation, Data & Corporate Innovation Township of King: Responsible AI Roadmap Alejandro Mayoral Baños Co-Executive Director Access Now Salvator Cusimano Executive Director Transparency International Canada - The IPC’s Transparency Showcase 3.0 and International Right to Know Week \[0:28] - Commissioner Kosseim’s opening remarks \[2:34] - Jonathon Penney’s keynote address \[8:34] - Bracebridge Library’s Open Book Strategy \[12:22] - Public Health Ontario’s Vector-Borne Disease Tool \[12:51] - Northumberland County’s Public Performance Dashboard \[13:25] - Dr. Amol Verma explains Unity Health Toronto’s project, AI Models to Prevent Delirium \[12:59] - Marco Cheng-Perri explains the Township of King’s Responsible AI Roadmap \[17:26] - Alejandro Mayoral Baños discusses the transformative power of transparency to drive civic engagement in the democratic process \[19:44] - Salvator Cusimano shares what inspired him about the projects \[21:11] - Commissioner Kosseim discusses the different and positive forms transparency can take \[22:18] **Resources:** - IPC Transparency Showcase - IPC Transparency Challenge - Right to Know Week - Barrie Police Service: Community Conversation Series - Bracebridge Library: Open Book – Transparency Through Authentic Community Engagement - Public Health Ontario: Vector-Borne Disease Tool - Northumberland County: Public Performance Dashboard - Unity Health Toronto: Artificial Intelligence Models to Prevent Delirium - Township of King: Responsible AI Roadmap - Transparency Showcase: The Beauty and Benefits of Transparency (2024) - Transparency Showcase: Spotlight on Transparency (2023) - Info Matters podcast: Season 4, Episode 7: The beauty and benefits of transparency: Ontario's public institutions rise to the challenge with innovative projects Info Matters is a podcast about people, privacy, and access to information hosted by Patricia Kosseim, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. We dive into conversations with people from all walks of life and hear stories about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them. If you enjoyed the podcast, leave us a rating or a review. Have an access to information or privacy topic you want to learn more about? Interested in being a guest on the show? Comment on our posts on BlueSky and LinkedIn or email your ideas to [podcast@ipc.on.ca](mailto:podcast@ipc.on.ca). The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this podcast are for general information only. It should not be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice. Unless specifically stated otherwise, the IPC does not endorse, approve, recommend, or certify any information, product, process, service, or organization presented or mentioned in this podcast, and information from this podcast should not be used or reproduced in any way to imply such approval or endorsement. None of the information, opinions and recommendations presented in this podcast bind the IPC’s Tribunal that may be called upon to independently investigate and decide upon an individual complaint or appeal based on the specific facts and unique circumstances of a given case.