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Mike Williamson<p>The "art of the possible" is the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sphericalcowinavacuum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sphericalcowinavacuum</span></a> of digital government.</p><p>Showing what's possible without constraints is just delaying contact with the constraints.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>“Get it right, and we deliver better programs—for less money and quickly. But if we keep getting it wrong, services will continue to worsen, costs will keep going up, and Canadians may start to lose faith that the government can do anything right. And they would be justified in that cynicism.” From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@justinling" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>justinling</span></a></span>: <a href="https://thewalrus.ca/ottawa-tech-strategy-is-broken/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thewalrus.ca/ottawa-tech-strat</span><span class="invisible">egy-is-broken/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Mike Williamson<p>“I’m blowing up the RMF, blowing up the ATOs. They’re stupid. They’re archaic,” she said, lambasting the extensive paper-based documentation ATOs require.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/acting-pentagon-cio-faster-cyber-rules-contractors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">airandspaceforces.com/acting-p</span><span class="invisible">entagon-cio-faster-cyber-rules-contractors/</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>New blog post! 😳 “Things that are happening” (on the dismantling of US civil service institutions and technology teams, and consequences for public sector reform elsewhere) <a href="https://sboots.ca/2025/03/04/things-that-are-happening/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sboots.ca/2025/03/04/things-th</span><span class="invisible">at-are-happening/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18F</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Mike Williamson<p>"The PBO said that in the four departments it studied, IT services provided by outside contractors cost taxpayers between 22 and 25.7 per cent more than they would have if the services had been provided in-house."</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/contracting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contracting</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/federal-it-contracting-cost-more-than-in-house-services-pbo-report/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ctvnews.ca/politics/article/fe</span><span class="invisible">deral-it-contracting-cost-more-than-in-house-services-pbo-report/</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>New blog post! 🏛️ Speaking at the Government Operations committee this Wednesday (July 24) <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a> <a href="https://sboots.ca/2024/07/19/speaking-at-the-government-operations-committee-this-wednesday/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sboots.ca/2024/07/19/speaking-</span><span class="invisible">at-the-government-operations-committee-this-wednesday/</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>"One federal manager I spoke with said they wished Congress could see how crucial remote work has been to retaining incredible talent who could no longer stay in-person because of circumstances like a spouse taking a new job, or family caregiving demands." From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciences.social/@donmoyn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>donmoyn</span></a></span>: <a href="https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/inflexible-return-to-work-policies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">donmoynihan.substack.com/p/inf</span><span class="invisible">lexible-return-to-work-policies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/remotework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>remotework</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Mike Williamson<p>“They basically said: ‘Increasingly, we can’t get anything done,'” Anderson told Business Insider. “It’s just too hard to get ideas approved, or you have to consult with so many people to make anything happen.”</p><p>“We hire highly educated, trained people, and then we put them in these environments with rules and procedures and eight layers of hierarchy,” </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/11/pharmaceutical-giant-bayer-ceo-bill-anderson-rid-bosses-staff-self-organize-save-2-billion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fortune.com/europe/2024/04/11/</span><span class="invisible">pharmaceutical-giant-bayer-ceo-bill-anderson-rid-bosses-staff-self-organize-save-2-billion/</span></a></p>
Mike Williamson<p>An enterprise architecture practice focused on efficiency/cost optimization through centralization/deduplication eventually conflicts with the redundancy needed for resilience.</p><p>My attempt to make the case for resilience as an explicit architectural focus in the GoC (even if it means duplication/costs):</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mikewilliamson.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/only-enterprise-architects-can-save-us-from-enterprise-architecture/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mikewilliamson.wordpress.com/2</span><span class="invisible">024/03/24/only-enterprise-architects-can-save-us-from-enterprise-architecture/</span></a></p>
Mike Williamson<p>The power the CIO is given is taken from elsewhere in the organization.</p><p>One of the subtle harms of the resulting central IT model is that it strips the rest of the org of its digital capacity.</p><p>Teams with some digital literacy are vaguely aware that the time and attention of end users must be respected and the that adopting digital tools could/should alter/simplify their business process.</p><p>In a central IT environment, often teams have no digital literacy at all. They come with super prescriptive requests for ill-considered digital add-ons to their manual process. It takes some sophistication to build a digital service that doesn't impose on users and the sophistication is low.</p><p>Centralized teams are incentivized for project throughput and totally overwhelmed and never have time to do the exploration and education needed to make a sane digital service and end up building something ridiculous.</p><p>We're trapped in a cycle that can only be broken by getting digital skills into the business/program areas. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/freeTheITs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeTheITs</span></a></p>
Lisa Fast<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geekingirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geekingirl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bethmaru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bethmaru</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ottawa.place/@MichaelPorter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MichaelPorter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ottawa.place/@stephanie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stephanie</span></a></span> Holy generative AI! youre learning French about staplers and photocopying?! Do they think that’s what <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/gcdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcdigital</span></a> jobs are, or do they think at all? Horrified.</p>
Josée Plamondon<p>Similaire au Québec: les mêmes frustrations<br><a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/111245443789886267" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/111</span><span class="invisible">245443789886267</span></a><br>sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca - “Like, I don't know, RFPs for large government systems like unemployment insurance end up including requirements like "you can only bid if you have made a large unemployment insurance system", which on the face of it makes sense, but on the other hand, restricts your field of bidders to a bunch of bidders that, let's say, have not proven to be very good.” @danhon <a href="https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s16e14-the-torment-nexus-section-rfps-man-rfps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsletter.danhon.com/archive/</span><span class="invisible">s16e14-the-torment-nexus-section-rfps-man-rfps/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>"No one at Shopify would expense a $500 dinner," Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian, who built the program, told Bloomberg. "But lots and lots of people spend way more than that in meetings without ever making a decision. The goal of this thing is to show you that time is money. If you have to spend it, you think about it." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-tool-shows-cost-of-useless-meetings-at-work-2023-7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/shopify-to</span><span class="invisible">ol-shows-cost-of-useless-meetings-at-work-2023-7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>New blog post! 🎙️ Public service tech tip: Get yourself some good audio gear <a href="https://sboots.ca/2023/06/26/public-service-tech-tip-get-yourself-some-good-audio-gear/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sboots.ca/2023/06/26/public-se</span><span class="invisible">rvice-tech-tip-get-yourself-some-good-audio-gear/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sboots.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
Christine Lau<p>Hello, I am a federal public servant, currently working at <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TBS</span></a>. Professional interests are how to affect sustainable <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>change</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/publicservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicservice</span></a> and how to break down the layers of <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a>. Personal interests are food, wine, books and history. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCDigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCDigital</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>“a starting point would be to have the CRA pre-complete tax returns for Canadians whose information is already with the agency” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadians-taxes-filing-money-owed-1.6688986" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/business/canadians</span><span class="invisible">-taxes-filing-money-owed-1.6688986</span></a></p>
Sean Boots<p>It’s December which means it’s the annual call-out for updates to 🎉 Is this blocked in my department! 🎉</p><p>If you’re a Canadian federal public servant, I’d love if you can take 5 minutes to update which online services are available, restricted (or only available by request), or blocked in your department.</p><p>You can submit updates via the different suggestion forms here: <a href="https://isthisblockedinmydepartment.ca/suggest/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">isthisblockedinmydepartment.ca</span><span class="invisible">/suggest/</span></a> Thanks so much! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a></p>
mobiliteGCmobility<p>This iteration, the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@GCmobility" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GCmobility</span></a></span> team is working live - streaming every workday throughout the next 2 weeks - with the goal to build a service before the end of the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/agile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agile</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iteration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iteration</span></a>.</p><p>If you're in the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCverse</span></a> and are interested in checking us out, and want an invite, feel free to let us know through a DT (Direct Toot)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCmobility</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdata</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GChr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GChr</span></a></p>
Dave Sampson<p>Welcome to the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCverse</span></a> of the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a>. Are you a Government of Canada <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/publicservant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicservant</span></a> or interested in what your federal public service is up to? Start and share here!</p><p>Consider all toots personal to the individual and not necessarily endorsed by or reflective of their employer.</p><p>Consider using these <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GC</span></a> topic tags or create new ones to carve your niche, share your work, exchange views:</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdigital</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCdata</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GChr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GChr</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCtalent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCtalent</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCproject</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GCmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCmobility</span></a></p>
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