How to improve Canada's federal IT procurement: Sean Boots & Amanda Clarke propose where to start, from #opensource to #opendata for contract reporting policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/febr…

🚀Big news Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age, we successfully recruited Pontus Westerberg as our first Executive Director. Pontus will lead the expansion of our operations and the implementation of our strategic goals. Read the press release here teachingpublicservice.digital/en/news/teachi…
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At Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age, we have just set the dates for a new masterclass for university professors and instructors. So, if you are new to teaching or you want to redesign your existing courses and make them ready for the digital age, we are offering a free review of our syllabus:

Let two days of learning begin!

I am looking forward to learning from Amanda Clarke Ines Mergel Tom Steinberg David Eaves and other participants.

Our next Masterclass on all things digital government is this September. Apply here, university educators!

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Here's what one professor told us about last time:

Still a few spots left in this free masterclass. If you're teaching public policy and administration to future public servants and want to give your students relevant digital era skills, please apply!

We are delighted to announce that applications for our next Masterclass are now open!

It is suitable both for university faculty for whom digital government is a new area of teaching, as well as digital specialists.

Applications close September 4th.

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This is an important story about federal govt capacity led by the research of Amanda Clarke theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Who’s going to finally fix federal public-service management? Experts agree on the serious problems that exist, but no government — Conservative or Liberal — has ever done much to address them, says Amanda Clarke. IRPP/Policy Options #cdnpoli Ottawa Citizen ottawacitizen.com/opinion/clarke…

FIPA is excited about this #cdnfoi project. We’ve been championing FOI reform for over 30 years and it has been great to see one of Canada’s largest news outlets committing to this issue. secretcanada.com 1/5

We came up with seven different approaches to assigning students to use AI in classrooms, and developed sample prompts. They have tremendous potential, but also require understanding the risks involved.

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Summary & overview: oneusefulthing.org/p/assigning-ai…

Calling all municipal procurement nerds!

'Who’s going to finally fix federal public service management?' My contribution to the IRPP/Policy Options and Institute on Governance series on building Resilient Institutions post-COVID. Looking forward to the panel discussion tomorrow.
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How can scholars protect themselves and what recourse do they have when things go wrong? Read this @academicmatters article by #RSC Fellow Dr Julia M Wright now at @juliamwright.bsky.social, Amanda Clarke & howard ramos, to find out how to support research communications in challenging times. academicmatters.ca/supporting-res…

The Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age project continues to be so rewarding. Running our 4th Masterclass this week meaning we’ll have helped ~100 faculty around the world incorporate digital competencies into their public admin courses. Also building an amazing faculty community.

Very grateful to discuss about the practical experiences of educators around the globe who are Teaching #PublicService in the #DigitalAge . And to inspire one‘s own practice.

The TPSDA teaching materials are freely licensed for re-use: teachingpublicservice.digital/en/syllabus-in…

Another engaging Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age masterclass is on the way. Lots of interesting conversations about using agile iterative approaches to solve complex government problems:

Improving public service requires creativity, vision, & nimble adaptation to changing social conditions. Join us Wed. 5/10 for the final installment of our free webinar series on agile government.
Register tinyurl.com/agilegovt23
Featuring Amanda Clarke Kiran Jain U.S. Digital Service CA Gov Ops

We're holding a national conference in June, bringing together an amazing roster of speakers to hash out what happened during COVID, and how we can emerge stronger from the experience.
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