David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week. The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the hands of those who desperately needed it. But alas, no [...]
Entries tagged as “public service sector renewal”
On Governments and Intellectual Property (or why we move slowly)
What Munir’s Resignation means to Public Servants
This came to me from an anonymous email address, but the author claims to be a public servant. No inside gossip or revelation here, but a serious question about how the public service will react to a critical moment. The independence of Canada’s public service has been a key part of our governing system. It [...]
Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data
We didn’t build libraries for a literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have public policy literate citizens, we build them so that citizens may become literate in public policy. Yesterday, in a brilliant article on The Guardian website, Charles Arthur argued that [...]
Banned Blogs
So I’m fed up. I’m tired of hearing about fantastic blogs written by fantastic people that are banned by different federal departments of the Canadian public service. Banned you say? Isn’t that a little dramatic? No! I mean banned. The IT departments of several federal governments block certain websites that are deemed to have inappropriate [...]
Open Government interview and panel on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin
My interview on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin has been uploaded to Youtube (BTW, it is fantastic that The Agenda has a YouTube channel where it posts all its interviews. Kudos!). If you live outside Ontario, or were wrapped up in the Senators-Pens playoff game that was on at the same time (which obviously [...]
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