Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. My name is Amanda Clarke. I'm an Assistant Professor at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration, here in Ottawa, where I hold the public affairs research excellence chair. I've been researching and advising governments on digital g

Information & Ethics committee  Fair enough. I did have a coffee right before I came here.

Information & Ethics committee  My students complain of the same thing. I'm sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. All right. I'll take a breath. The committee seems to be under.... I mean, there was a lot of discussion about the federal civil service not having an appropriately robust appreciation for privacy. At the same time, in my research with federal civil servants, I regularl

Information & Ethics committee  Can I just put in the last one, which I really think we need to get on the agenda?

Information & Ethics committee  It's just a quick last point. I haven't seen it yet in the discussions, but some of the discussions the committee has had haven't been made public yet, so maybe it has been on the agenda. I would like to point the committee to specifically approach the issue of indigenous data

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. I didn't have time to bring it up in my remarks. I think that, if you're focusing on the question of digital service, design and delivery, procurement is a huge part of that conversation. I think there are two interesting things happening in the procur

Information & Ethics committee  I think you're right to bring up the Sidewalk Toronto example as something we wouldn't want to emulate, but perhaps that's just where that begins and ends. I think the one thing we can learn from that disaster is exactly how this committee and other policy-makers shouldn't struct

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course. Go ahead.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think those are all key questions. As I said, this isn't my area of expertise. There is some really interesting work that OpenNorth has led, working with first nation communities in B.C. There's also some really progressive work in this space from New Zealand. I really thi

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. I just wanted to—

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. The question of what citizens even want in this space has come up a number of times. I don't think we have very strong data on that question right now. To speak directly to your point—“Do people want this?”—there are two things. On the one hand, sometime

Information & Ethics committee  On the question about Westminster, I'd say that one of the clearest potential tensions is around our vertical accountability structures and this horizontal model that we're increasingly pushing towards, when we think about platform government or the Estonian model. Right now, th

Information & Ethics committee  David, you wrote the article, so I'd say it's you who's going to field this one.

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's an excellent point that I'll echo. One of the conditions that need to be in place for all of this to work is citizen trust in the system, and that's also going to be about generating a certain tolerance for failure amongst the public. I'm not talking about the publ