#gcdigital — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gcdigital, aggregated by home.social.
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#Digital #Sovereignty A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada
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Meanwhile in the UK:
"The government’s previous shared services strategies failed to deliver their intended cost savings and other benefits. Its new Shared Services Strategy is highly ambitious..."
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Austrailia's early 2000s experiment with a #SharedServices organization is super interesting.
Super impressed that they actually checked that their #centralization effort was delivering on it's claims.... and it wasn't.
The original business case was "fundamentally flawed" and has "resulted in a total cost to the State of $473 million" instead of the expected savings of $68 million/year.
* 91 per cent of sampled agencies comment that service delivery has deteriorated upon transitioning to shared
services.
* Over 80 per cent of the sampled agencies reported that processing timeframes have worsened
* rolling-in to the DTFSSC has had a detrimental impact on the operations of the majority of rolled-in agencies"The Authority concludes that the current structure of the DTFSSC is problematic. It is a monopoly provider, with a mandated client base and a lack of meaningful service level agreements. This means that there are minimal incentives for DTFSSC to improve service delivery and few ways in which client agencies can hold DTFSSC accountable"
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In #TBS policy there are a number of places where they mention cloud service models as a progression from IaaS > PaaS > SaaS.
It's like commodity SaaS software is end state all initiatives should be aiming for... as though there is nothing unique about running a country that might require software.
#FaaS is furthest up the stack for custom development.
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"It was the third kiosk outage affecting Canadian airports in recent weeks. Technical problems — not a cyberattack — put inspection stations offline in late September, leading to backlogs on commercial processing and at some ports of entry, according to the #CBSA
The agency vowed to provide a report to the public safety minister within 30 days.
Another outage was reported on Oct. 2, also affecting border inspection kiosks."
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Premier Legault calls Quebec's #bureaucracy a #straitjacket
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"Some truck drivers entering Ontario weren't able to proceed for as long as 36 hours this week after the #outage affected #CBSA operations. It began Sunday and lasted into Tuesday, with the resulting backlog snarling commercial traffic for days. "
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-trucking-border-delays-cbsa-outage-1.7650690
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"The 2025 edition of the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security counterdrone “Sandbox” contest will leverage a “major urban city environment” as an assessment location against small-sized drones. It will be hosted in Ottawa from Nov. 24 to 28 by #DND and the #canadianarmedforces "
#drones #counterdrone #gcdigital
https://archive.is/20250910122930/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-drone-threat-test-systems/ -
"For the second time this week, a computer outage at Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) kiosks caused delays at the Montreal airport."
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"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."
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The Treasury Board's policy suite is conceptually a giant graph structure, but is frustratingly resistant to automated analysis.
Some annoyances:
The policy suite straddles tbs-sct.gc.ca and canada.ca and policies often draw their authorities from material on laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
There is frustratingly little common structure you can rely on. If you think you found a structure, you just need to see a few more policies
Links between policies or to laws rarely link to relevant sections
Only a few policies have an XML data representation, most are available only as HTML, making web scraping the most reliable approach
Markers indicating sections, clauses etc. are not consistent across HTML documents making web scraping extremely annoying
Multiple requirements often occur in a single ("and")
Enabling programmatic analysis of policy would be broadly valuable both inside and outside government.
This should be an #opendata #dataproduct but it seems like these documents are largely treated like marketing material: if it looks OK in the browser it's done.
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"Nearly two months later, the country’s financial crimes intelligence agency still hasn’t got 100% of its systems back up and running."
https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-anti-money-laundering-reporting-systems-still-down-post-hack/
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#fintrac is still down. Hacked on March 2nd Released a statement on the 22nd.
"As soon as the incident was identified, FINTRAC took its corporate systems offline to ensure their integrity and protect the information that it maintains.
FINTRAC is working closely with its federal partners to return to full operational capacity as soon as it is safe and prudent to do so."
https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/new-neuf/statement-declaration-24-03-22-eng
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My #RulesAsCode colleague in #GCDigital Martin Perron absolutely kills it in this interview on the Rechtsgespäch podcast! His segment is at 25m, (and in English). Sets out everything we have been doing with §Blawx for the last couple of years, and why it is unique in the world! 🇨🇦
https://rechtsgespraech.libsyn.com/verwaltungsdigitalisierung-law-as-code-in-deutschland-und-kanada
At least two more big news items soon to come, too. Great momentum. Please share!
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New #DigitalStandards from the United Nations Development Programme (they look great!) 🎉 https://www.undp.org/digital/standards via @wdangersmith #GCdigital
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I am automating titles being placed in Excel. I make amd sell Excel workbooks with tables of statistics for my employer a government agency in Canada. I work with confidential tax data and must make sure no individual enterprises are exposed, so publish aggregates. And I also run a confidentiality analysis involving linear equations constructed of table dimensions. #GCDigital #Privacy #TaxData
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Bar-Yam's insight that "the hierarchy amplifies the scale of the behavior of an individual, but does not increase its complexity" suggests that it's the wrong tool for this job.
The solutions aren't coming from the top of the org structure, and hierarchical structures make it unlikely they will survive the trip up from the bottom.
"So, 85% of the people in this organization would individually, if they ever heard about it, support the President's idea. But when the machine manufacturing it is a hierarchy, it has less than a fifty-fifty shot at success." -- Kent Aitken
85% probability across 5 levels of hierarchy: 0.85 x 0.85 x 0.85 x 0.85 x 0.85 = 0.44
This is a structural problem that doesn't make it into the #gcdigital dialogue nearly enough. #structurewins
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@chris_spackman Was thinking more of “alternatives to CC”, often meant to work within a jurisdiction. For instance, “Ontario Commons License”. Or the “Open Government License” used at the federal level, here. #GCdigital
As you say, there are rules @creativecommons preventing additional restrictions. At the same time, at least up to the current 4.0 versions, these licenses don’t cover #MoralRights, as they don’t pertain to US-style copyright. #TKlabels may help, though.
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Should #goverment host their own #Mastodon #fediverse instance? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing so? #gc #gcdigital #cangov #govcan #Canada
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Belated #introduction. I am part of the #GCDigital community in the Government of Canada, focused on Application Portfolio Management & technical debt remediation at #ESDC.
Graduated from Carleton University & Bentley University, and I have the pieces of paper to prove it.
Three dogs, one of whom is in my header picture giving me her very best "you have food and I want it" face.
And I collect stuff like #comics and #artbooks and will often use pics from them to make wry if obscure commentary.
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Belated #introduction. I am part of the #GCDigital community in the Government of Canada, focused on Application Portfolio Management & technical debt remediation at #ESDC.
Graduated from Carleton University & Bentley University, and I have the pieces of paper to prove it.
Three dogs, one of whom is in my header picture giving me her very best "you have food and I want it" face.
And I collect stuff like #comics and #artbooks and will often use pics from them to make wry if obscure commentary.
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Belated #introduction. I am part of the #GCDigital community in the Government of Canada, focused on Application Portfolio Management & technical debt remediation at #ESDC.
Graduated from Carleton University & Bentley University, and I have the pieces of paper to prove it.
Three dogs, one of whom is in my header picture giving me her very best "you have food and I want it" face.
And I collect stuff like #comics and #artbooks and will often use pics from them to make wry if obscure commentary.
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Belated #introduction. I am part of the #GCDigital community in the Government of Canada, focused on Application Portfolio Management & technical debt remediation at #ESDC.
Graduated from Carleton University & Bentley University, and I have the pieces of paper to prove it.
Three dogs, one of whom is in my header picture giving me her very best "you have food and I want it" face.
And I collect stuff like #comics and #artbooks and will often use pics from them to make wry if obscure commentary.
