Client: Forum of Labour Market Ministers, Labour Market Information
Working Group (FLMM-LMIWG)
The FLMM-LMIWG consists of federal, provincial, and territorial ministers with
the shared goal of promoting discussion and cooperation among jurisdictions in
regards to LMI-related concerns. Life Strategies has been involved in three
FLMM-LMIWG projects concerning the website dissemination of LMI.
This third project was for senior officials, concerning the logistics of
creating a single LMI portal that would retrieve information from a variety of
current sites (i.e., federal, provincial, territorial) and would disseminate
LMI seamlessly to all end-users. Building on the previous two projects,
consultations with technical and database experts, a review of existing reports
(e.g., Advisory Panel on Labour Market Information: The Drummond Report), and
structured interviews with key informants (e.g., Statistics Canada), Life
Strategies investigated the feasibility of a common database or "warehouse" of
labour market information, LMI work already underway, user needs across the
country, and potential challenges and risks with the single LMI portal concept.
The final report summarized previous FLMM-LMIWG research, reports, and
meetings, as well as the subsequent data collection and analysis by Life
Strategies. A single LMI portal project plan, with recommendations for
essential elements, and estimated budget and timelines, was presented for
consideration.
For more information on the FLMM-LMI Working Group projects see http://www.flmm-lmi.org/english/View.asp?x=1
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