CGE appoints new editor-in-chief
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Canadian Government Executive Media (CGE) announced today that Patrice Dutil has been selected as editor CGE. Dutil is a professor...
Everything has changed
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We hear it often about the digital era: “Everything has changed.” We hear that new technologies, business models, and modes...
From wireless to wearables
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For skeptics, Google’s recent decision to abandon sales of its current iteration of Google Glass is mere confirmation that wearing...
Global Solution Networks: A revolution in governance
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I don’t think governments have changed fundamentally since Al Gore made that famous commitment 20 years ago. We’ve largely paved...
Architects, wordsmiths, parrots, duckers and naysayers
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I wrote about accountability more than a year ago. Recently, a colleague whispered to me that it is time to...
Coders find new apps in government data
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And then there were 15. Of 125 apps built from open government data for CODE 2015, fifteen are still in...
For what it’s worth
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There's something happening here. It might not warrant the protest cry of Stephen Stills' iconic lyrics, but it is revolutionary...
Blueprint 2020 an opportunity to tap Millennials’ technological prowess
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Blueprint 2020 continues to be the key driver in the federal government’s on-going pursuit of improving public services for Canadians...
Simulating contingencies: How the CSA prepared for Chris Hadfield’s mission
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The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest peacetime engineering project in history. It is the result of a partnership...
To collaborate or to control, that’s the hub of it
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Innovation (design or change) labs are the hottest thing in government. They offer opportunities to experiment with collaborative ways to...