The Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Digital Government, will join the panel of digital leaders to give the keynote address at this event on Nov. 9. Be sure to register today!

WATCH: Dr. Vera Etches dispels 2 #COVID19 myths in #Ottawa: 1) Main cause of current spike. 2) Who is being hospitalized. #ottnews

‘What does this mean for us?’ People with developmental disabilities left out of vaccination planning - Healthy Debate Important read from ⁦Yona Lunsky⁩ healthydebate.ca/2021/01/topic/…

“Yet useful statistics do not simply arrange themselves neatly in a spreadsheet somewhere, waiting to be downloaded. They must be collected: someone must set the standards, link up the systems, hire the personnel.” ft.com/content/6e046f… via Financial Times #OpenData

Today at 2pm, join me at #GCdata2021 on How #OpenData is helping solve #Covid Best practices for #transparency #standards #DataGoverance With international experts: Barbara Ubaldi from OECD Governance @NatiCarfi from @OpenDataCharter Nigel Jacob co-founder of Boston New Urban Mechanics

This is SO INTERESTING. The sophisticated use of pandemic data visualization by standard public health-epi- science-medical scicomm is mirrored by groups who oppose, and can be indistiguishable. To me is seems like next level motivated reasoning ... /1 news.mit.edu/2021/when-more…

Great piece here from Joel Westheimer on the clear and essential lessons COVID-19 has taught us about education. Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Ottawa Citizen #ottnews #onpoli ottawacitizen.com/opinion/westhe…

5 essays, each reflecting informed skepticism about the concept of pandemic "learning loss": by Peter Greene: is.gd/NCcqPN by Dr. Rachael Gabriel: is.gd/HW93PM by @raepica1: is.gd/Pr1yF0 by John Ewing: is.gd/y93C6P by me: is.gd/GYQcOf

As part of 🇨🇦's Open Government 4th National Action Plan, the Government committed to publishing Service Performance Dashboards to chart the progress of the Government of Canada’s digital transformation and open data. See the full updated digital inventory of #GoC services: ⬇️

Research in teaching and child development tells us that learning how to think analytically is much more important than cramming in material that students won’t remember weeks or years later. #educational #learningtogether ottawacitizen.com/opinion/westhe…

If you're petitioning for Ontario schools to reopen, and you're not petitioning for measures including smaller class size, outdoor learning, improved ventilation, and mandatory asymptomatic testing please don't pretend it's the kids that you care about.

Are you an AS-07/equivalent? I need your help! I want to work with you to advance Open Government and Data Governance at the RCMP. Together we can make some of the most important advancements to date in transparency/trust and data management in policing emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/appl…

This latest plan reflects the growing recognition of the importance of data and information for digital government. #GCDigital ✅Priority 2.2. Maximize public value of data and information ✅Priority 3.1. Manage and use data and information as strategic assets

Today APEX welcomes 839 new Executives at the Recognition of Entry Into the EX Ranks Ceremony. Aujourd'hui, l'APEX accueille 839 nouveaux cadres lors de la cérémonie de reconnaissance des nouveaux cadres de direction Follow the conversation / Suivez-nous #LeaderEX2021

In honour of #BHM2022, Fatouma Ahmed from the Office of the Chief Information Officer at TBS discusses being a Black woman in the public service and offers some words of advice for allies. For the full story: ow.ly/3oak50I2Krn

1/2 I am pleased to announce that the Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) has been updated! New guidance describing the information and consultations needed to complete an AIA has been added to the tool’s landing page (see 3.2). canada.ca/en/government/…

1/4 I'm very excited to announce the kick-off of our stakeholder engagements for the 3rd review of the 🇨🇦 Directive on Automated Decision-Making! 🥳 Our internal review identified several issues and provisional amendments to address them. #ResponsibleAI #GCDigital