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Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, from 1995. From The Demon-Haunted World

"Focus on real security vs compliance. Yes, you should be compliant. But the bureaucracy that slows the ability to become compliant many times induces more security risk." re Continuous ATOs 20h self-pace free The Linux Foundation training training.linuxfoundation.org/training/intro…

This is an underappreciated government service transformation success story, with valuable lessons about what makes or breaks that success (about which more soon). Thank you Lara Sampson @[email protected] Public Digital for sharing it with us Beeck Center.

Someone shared to me a G-firm commissioned document about cyber security. *Le Sigh* Another ~$100k, 77 pages document saying something we already knew: hire more cyber security expertise.

I'm really liking the Introduction to DevSecOps for Managers by the The Linux Foundation / DefenseUnicorns On the Power of Culture, with its foundation being people. How do we do HR in #GCDigital? learning.edx.org/course/course-…

Russians: Do you want to join Holland? (Namens Nederland, een referendum voor alle Russen: willen jullie bij Nederland horen?)

General Dallaire and his wife Marie-Claude Michaud are proud to share their philosophy of Leadership Bienveillant via Globe and Mail and through workshops at their Atelier. Contact [email protected] for more information. tgam.ca/3fgEzLy

Hiring new people to work at your organization? Don't be surprised if a candidate asks to see your policies before accepting a job offer. It happens a lot. The issue is whether the tone of your policies accurately portrays your corporate culture. It's a…lnkd.in/ezJmbZGC

sick burn

I wrote a thing, I think it's pretty good and something that I've been wanting to write for a long time.

Regularly rotate your password by using the name of the current UK Prime Minister.

Huge congrats to all the candidates who stepped up to run in Ottawa. It takes courage and it matters. Win or lose you should be proud. And way to go everyone who voted! Congrats on owning your democracy! 👏

"What do these tools have in common? They don't exploit anything. They abuse legitimate protocols". 😬

La PM de l’Alberta est une complotiste | La Presse lapresse.ca/actualites/chr…

"Why is it that 40 years ago there was no such thing as a policy adviser to a minister? It used to be a DM, but now every minister’s office has four or five, “That tells me ministers are saying: we don’t accept the policy advice that comes from our DM." policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/dece…

In 2019, the founders of Public Code did a landscape analysis of what was effective in working with cities and technology-enabled collaborations. They found that white papers were not the catalysts in the digital transformation agenda of the public sector.

The UK gov has a list of their Communities of Practice: gov.uk/service-manual… Do we have anything similar for Canada at any level of government? Catherine_Charbonneau Abe Rob Butler 🇨🇦 Skaidra Puodžiūnas Beth Fox (she/her) OneTeamGov Canada rumon carter Jennifer MacDougall Amanda Bernardo