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S3E33 Back to the Start with the Functional Government Podcast
We're back...sorta! A few months ago we officially brought the Let's Think Digital podcast to a close. I feel very fortunate to have been able to host three seasons of Let’s Think Digital where we…
S3E32 Let's Keep Thinking Digital
This is the final episode of the Let's Think Digital podcast in its current form. I've been thinking a lot about transitions recently. Last month, I had the honour of being asked to serve as Vice…
S3E31 Just Evil Enough (with Alistair Croll)
To change systems, sometimes you need to bend the rules, or even rewrite them. That's the argument that Alistair Croll and Emily Ross make in their new book, Just Evil Enough: The Subversive…
S3E30 Data, Data Everywhere, And Not a Drop to Drink (with Maddy Dwyer, Anna Wong, Trevor Banks...and ChatGPT)
Data is the lifeblood of any organization, including government. And in today’s digital age, there are very real questions about whether governments are capable of managing the enormous amount of…
S3E29 Transforming International Aid (with Brandon Lee and Dorothy Eng)
International assistance and aid can help bring people out of poverty, build peace and security, and drive economic prosperity. For Canada, it's also a major source of its soft power globally. In…
S3E28 The Digital Nation State (with Dr. Alexis Wichowski)
As much as we talk on this podcast about transforming and modernizing governments and bureaucracies, we can’t ignore the role of the private sector which is often working in very embedded ways with…
S3E27 Trust is Everything (with Andres Raieste)
Trust is everything. It’s clear we’re in a moment in time where people do not trust their governments. There is skepticism about the impact of big technology companies, concerns about new…
S3E26 Welcome to Estonia (with Liisa-Ly Pakosta, Ville Sirviö, and Siim Sikkut)
Follow the digital government space long enough and you will hear about Estonia. Despite being a small country of 1.4 million people with an overall economy that by total size is only 101st in the…
S3E25 The Radical How (with Anna Hirschfeld and Alex MacEachern)
Canada has fallen from 3rd in the 2010 UN e-gov rankings to 47 in 2024. We’re stuck when it comes to modernizing government for the digital era. But our guests this week, recorded on location at this…
S3E24 What I Wish My Boss Knew About Digital
Live on location from the FWD50 conference! In the most recent United Nations e-government rankings Canada has dropped from a high of #3 in 2010 down to #47. We are stalled out while other countries…
S3E23 The Hard Yards (with Natasha Clarke)
Season 3 premiere! For those of us in the digital transformation and government modernization space, we are feeling tired and burnt out. We heard a lot about this last season where we talked about…
S3 Let's Think Digital Season 3
Let's Think Digital is back for Season Three! We've heard from experts and leaders in digital modernization about how new technologies have the potential to redefine the way government works in the…
S2E22 In Conversation with the Minister of Citizens' Services, Terry Beech
(Help shape the future of this podcast! Take our Season 2 listener survey at LetsThinkDigital.ca)If there’s a running theme this season on the podcast, it’s about how we seem to be stuck in the mud…
S2E21 The End of the Ontario Digital Service and What it Means
A few weeks ago, I got a late night message on our team’s Slack that made me do a double-take and was - to be frank - a real shock. It was a link to a Reddit thread that was titled “Ontario Digital…
S2E20 Everything You Should Know About AI (but were afraid to ask)
It's only been a year since our last episode on artificial intelligence, but already a lot has changed. It seems like Generative AI is everywhere and everyone, including governments, are struggling…
S2E19 Speakers' Corner at FWD50 (with Alistair Croll and Rebecca Croll)
If you haven’t heard of FWD50, you should! It’s one of the premiere conferences on digital modernization in government and exists to help answer one vital question: How do we use technology to make…
S2E18 Open Source Government (with Aaron Snow)
It’s fair to say that most governments don’t choose to use open source by default. Despite efforts over the past two decades to make open source solutions a viable, or even default solution in…
S2E17 Building Political Support for Digital Government (with Senator Colin Deacon)
We want government to be innovative and not be left behind in the digital revolution. But this comes up against the reality of the structures, incentives, and culture of most public sector…
S2E16 Building the Digital City (with Jacqueline Lu and John Houweling)
As digital technologies become increasingly embedded in the fabric of the built environment, there are real questions about whether our cities, where 8 out of 10 North Americans live, are truly ready…
S2E15 Stepping Up to the Digital Challenge (with Hillary Hartley)
You've probably seen any number of stories about how some founder in Silicon Valley says their startup can tackle a big societal problem better and cheaper than the public sector because government…
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Let's Think Digital has published 35 episodes since December 2022, covering topics in Government, News.
Let's Think Digital is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 48m.
