Digital Privacy and Public Trust
As governments have sought to go digital, one of the most common barriers stymying progress in many jurisdictions is that...
A.I. and Government
Cultivating more intelligent government has long been a hallmark of public sector reform, as more agile and learning-based forms of...
Skills Development and Digital Literacy
As the world grows more digital – and increasingly mobile – workforce development inside of government and digital literacy across...
From Silos to Synergies: Collaboration and Cabinet in a Networked Era
The Trudeau Government’s decision, in August 2017, to split the Indigenous Affairs Ministerial portfolio offers a potentially important inflection point...
The Liberals and Democratic Reform: From Offense to Defence
As the Liberal’s assumed office, three big democratic reform ideas were floated: electoral reform, e-voting, and mandatory voting. The second...
Web 3.0 – from Content to Control
The promise of web 2.0 was the emergence of a user-driven Internet where content was produced organically through online engagement,...
Canada 150: Disjointed Federalism and Digital Dysfunction
In recent months, Canadians have borne witness to a new cycle in the perennial spectacle of federal – provincial negotiations on...
Netflix Quandaries: Culture, Content and Social Capital
The last few months have showed a complex and potentially ominous relationship between digital content and community engagement. While Netflix...
President Trump – The New Face of Digital Governance
The arrival of President Trump in the White House marks a new and potentially ominous phase in the evolution of...
The Phoenix Debacle & The Politics of Digital Decline
In 2001, the OECD published The Hidden Threat to E-Government. The first line summarized the essence of that threat: “Most...