Why E-Voting Matters
As team Trudeau would tell it, this past summer saw spirited barbeques and campfires with gathered Canadians debating the wisdom...
Salvaging Shared Services Canada
The fact that Shared Services Canada (SSC) has struggled mightily under the weight of its immense agenda is hardly news:...
The Troubled Governance of Sports Online
In January, the BBC and BuzzFeed jointly released an exposé on gambling in tennis, aptly titled “The Tennis Racket.” The...
Rethinking Conversation
Professors are obliged to set regular weekly office hours, something most students today find rather quaint. It’s often a time...
Open Government and Political Leadership
That the new Liberal Government has embraced ‘open government’ is hardly surprising. President Obama promised much the same in 2008...
Governing Digitally: F.A.S.T. Tracking Federalism
In 2011, the World Economic Forum presented its vision of a future government creating public value as F-A-S-T: flatter, agile,...
Governing Digitally: Amazon’s Summer Blockbuster
In late July, Amazon startled investors with the tiniest of profit. The next day, its market capitalization surpassed that of...
Digital inclusion: A national imperative
With a seemingly ubiquitous Internet and mobile devices at every turn, it is tempting for governments to view online channels...
Embracing mobile content, from the get-go
It's no secret that we're all rapidly going mobile. The rate at which we are adopting mobile devices has outpaced...
The Council of Europe: Humanizing the Internet
At the end of November, the Council of Europe hosted the second World Democracy Forum, with this iteration examining digital...