Amanda Renteria is the Chief Executive Officer at Code for America, which is a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. She is also the former Chief of Operations at the California Department of Justice, former Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. And a National Political Director for a large U.S. presidential campaign. But, perhaps most importantly, it is Amanda’s second time on Stories from the Open Gov, which I suppose makes her an official friend of the podcast! And today, we talk a little about the effect of COVID19 on civic tech and the upcoming Code For America Summit taking place on May 12-13 https://summit.codeforamerica.org/ Time stamps: 1:29 - Asking how Amanda's new role as CfA CEO is coming. 5:01 - How was it organizing the first virtual CfA Summit? 12:34 - How did the CfA team choose which proposals for breakout sessions made it to the final program? 16:37 - Amanda talks about using Hopin as their virtual platform for the summit. 20:57 - What are some sessions at the CfA Summit Amanda is most excited about? 22:30 - What's next for the CfA after the Summit? Amanda Renteria Twitter account twitter.com/AmandaRenteria Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

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ep50 - Amanda Renteria - 2021 Code for America Summit

Kyle Rowe is the former strategic advisor for the City of Seattle Department of Transportation and current global head of government at Spin. Spin is the micromobility unit coming out of the Ford Motor Company. They provide electric scooters in more than 60 markets in the U.S, very much like so many bike sharing programs. It costs $1 to unlock a scooter and 0.15 cents per minute following that. And today we talk public-private partnerships, open data, and how he plans to advance government collaboration. Time Stamps 1:13 – Open Permits 7:31 – Conditions attached to the Open Permits for dockless parking 10:35 – Public and Corporate response to the conditions 16:15 – Why did Spin adopt a collaborative approach with government? 19:27 – What is a P3? 20:56 – How does Kyle characterize a P3? 22:32 – Why are P3s controversial? 25:03 – How can we ensure that P3s are executed well? 31:51 – What are Kyle’s thoughts on the “War on the Car” rhetoric? 40:23 – Does Spin release its ridership data a Open Data? 46:28 – Rapid fire questions! 51:15 – What is the Pittsburgh Mobility Collective? Kyle Rowe Twitter account https://twitter.com/krowe4 Spin Mobility Twitter account https://twitter.com/ridespin Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_Sadie/Songs_for_Swingers/03_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep49 - Kyle Rowe: A Public Private Partnership Case Study about Spin Mobililty

Today's episode is Part 2 of a spicy reading of the reading of the Kristo Vaher vision paper titled “Next Generation Digital Government Architecture” – version 1.0b dated March 2020. Think of this episode as a kind of audiobook for a government policy document. For those who don’t know, Kristo Vaher is the Chief Technology Officer for the Government of Estonia and his white paper is often cited as a benchmark for what government as a platform is all about. Below you will find links to the images and time stamps to the different sections. You can read the Vision Paper by visiting the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UJ-5wi9wavWzA2n4LhsbONJqdxjUSIgMxKJNaZZslas/edit# Images 1.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-1.0.png 2.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.0.png 3.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-3.0.png 4.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-4.0.png 5.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-5.0.png 6.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-6.0.png 7.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-7.0.png 8.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-8.0.png 9.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-9.0.png 10.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-10.0.png 11.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-11.0.png 12.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-12.0.png 13.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-13.0.png 14.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-14.0.png 15.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-15.0.png 16.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-16.0.png 17.0 https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-17.0.png Time Stamps 0:58 – (4.0) From Monoliths to event driven microservice architecture 3:19 – (4.1) Problem Statement 11:50 – (4.2) Service Oriented Architecture 21:38 – (4.3) X-Road 30:16 – (4.4) Microservices 1:15:49 – (4.5) X-Rooms 1:33:21 – (4.6) Fact Registries 1:47:46 – (4.7) Key Takeaways 1:51:16 - Conclusions Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_Sadie/Songs_for_Swingers/03_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep48 - Spicy Reading of Estonia Vision Paper on Next Gen Digital Government Architecture - PART 2

Today's episode is Part 1 of a spicy reading of the reading of the Kristo Vaher vision paper titled “Next Generation Digital Government Architecture” – version 1.0b dated March 2020. Think of this episode as a kind of audiobook for a government policy document. Part 2 will be published in the coming weeks. For those who don’t know, Kristo Vaher is the Chief Technology Officer for the Government of Estonia and his white paper is often cited as a benchmark for what government as a platform is all about. You can read his vision paper by visiting the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UJ-5wi9wavWzA2n4LhsbONJqdxjUSIgMxKJNaZZslas/edit# Time Stamps 1:37 – Abstract 9:09 – (1) Problem Statement 19:58 – (1.1) The Story 23:06 – (1.2) The Big Picture #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-1.2-Big-Picture.png 25:57 – (2) From Silos to Proactive Services #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.0-From-Silos.png 34:52 – (2.1) Conway’s Law 42:12 – (2.2) Domain Driven Design #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.2.png 59:50 – (2.3) Business Process Modelling https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.3-1024x507.png 1:08:31 – (2.4) Interoperability Catalogue #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.4-1.png #2 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.4-2-1024x495.png #3 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.4-3.png #4 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-2.4-4-1024x317.png 1:27:16 – (2.5) Key Takeaways 1:30:51 – (3) From Websites to Intelligent Virtual Assistant #KrattAI 1:39:35 – (3.1) Next Generation Seamless Citizen Experience #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-3.1-1.png #2 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-3.1-2-1024x510.png #3 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-3.1-3-1024x470.png 1:55:55 – (3.2) Cross-Border Citizen Experience 2:01:24 – (3.3) Fallback Routine 2:04:49 – (3.4) Key Takeaways #1 - https://reopengov.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/img-3.4.png Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_Sadie/Songs_for_Swingers/03_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep47 - Spicy Reading of Estonia Vision Paper on Next Gen Digital Government Architecture - PART 1

Jessica Levesque is the Executive Director for the Crypto Currency Certification Consortium and Vice President of Education for Empowered Law. Jonathan Reichental is the CEO of Human Future, a professor at a number of universities, the former Chief Information Officer for both O’Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto as well the author of Smart Cities for Dummies Today, we discuss Blockchain and Government and how this mysterious technology can help track your tax dollars, publish research papers, authenticate art, and prevent voting fraud. Time stamps: 1:20 – Salespitch… How can Blockchain Technology help governments? 10:37 – When will Blockchain Technology start working like magic? 22:42 – What are the advantages for the government to use Blockchain Technology instead of simply using a database? 25:06 – Blockchain is “Trustless,” but not in the way you think. 29:37 – How Blockchain Technology can accurately track tax dollars 33:52 – Blockchain and voting 39:36 – How do you teach an old dog new tricks? Crypto Currency Certification Consortium Twitter account twitter.com/LearnMoreWithC4 Jonathan Reichental Twitter Account twitter.com/reichental Jessica Levesque Twitter account n/a Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_Sadie/Songs_for_Swingers/03_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu https://www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... https://youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: https://youtu.be/EgqcGo7ha9A https://linkvertise.com/49870/StrollinDownBigBandMp3

ep46 - Blockchain & Government

aimee whitcroft (lower case "a" and "w" is how she writes her name) is the Open Data lead for the Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency as well as an advisory Board member for the Open Data Charter. Derek Alton is a fellow at Newspeak House in London, England, a public servant for the Canadian government, and President for the Canadian Open Data Society. Both share a passion and keen ability at transforming how government governs. And today we explore this question: "What is the problem with Open Data" Time stamps: 1:34 - What is the Problem with Open Data? 13:30 - Do we need to change how we talk about data? 16:48 - Are documentaries moving the needle when it comes to data? 31: 18 - Open Data as filmmaking analogy, part 1 37:55 - Is it important for everyone to know that Open Data is a thing? 41:22 - Open Data as a filmmaking analogy, part 2 44:56 - Are large private companies becoming the government of the future? 48:53 - Contextualizing what the Coronavirus has done for the Open Gov & Open Data movements. aimee Whitcroft Twitter account twitter.com/teh_aimee Derek Alton Twitter Account twitter.com/derekalton Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep45 - The Problem with Open Data

The Canadian Open Data Society (CODS) is a grassroots movement of passionate people on a mission to raise the awareness of open data in Canada and advocate for its use in all sectors. And today we we discuss its roots and future with three of its Board Members: - Reena Shaw, Data Scientist with Agile Blockchain and Steering Committee Member for the Toronto Machine Learning Summit. - Herb Lainchbury, CEO of Dynamic solutions and founder of Open Data BC. - Derek Alton, a fellow at newspeak house and Canadian public servant. Link to launch event https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canadian-open-data-society-cods-launch-invitation-tickets-122733556371 Time stamps: 1:05 - What is the Canadian Open Data Society and what are its origins? 5:01 - The steps that led to the evolution of the BC Open Data summit into the Canadian Open Data Society 9:58 - Tracey Lauriault’s role in creating the Canadian Open Data Society 11:17 - Formalizing the Canadian Open Data Society steering committee 18:24 - The exciting future of the Canadian Open Data Society 21:30 - Tapping the untapped potential of the Open Data community 29:00 - Beefing about bad Open Data sets 36:42 - What is Open Data’s role in society? Canadian Open Data Society Twitter account twitter.com/opendatasociety Reena Shaw Twitter Account twitter.com/monsoonsavant Herb Lainchbury twitter.com/herblainchbury Derek Alton twitter.com/derekalton Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep44 - Announcing the Canadian Open Data Society

Civic Tech Toronto is a diverse community of Torontonians interested in better understanding and finding solutions to civic challenges through technology, design or other means. And today I am joined by three of their organizers: - Skaidra Puodziunas, who is a public servant with the Ontario Government. - Curtis McCord, who is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information - John Spragge who is a software engineer for Manifold Eye Software. In this episode we discuss the state of Civic Technology – particularly as it applies in Toronto. We explore topics like the funding and sustainability of projects, the integration of projects with governments, how civic tech will have to adapt to COVID19, and one of my personal favourites, how can we make Civic Tech sexy and bring more attention to the community? Time stamps: 1:27 – What is Civic Tech and Civic Tech Toronto? 7:28 – How can we bring more attention to the Civic Tech movement? 19:11 – How can we make Civic Tech sexy? 27:06 – How can we sustain Civic Tech projects? 34:20 – What role should government procurement play in the Civic Tech community? 45:55 – Do public service job descriptions need to change? 52:38 – Thoughts on the role that organizations like Code for Canada play in the Civic Tech community 55:31 – How important is it for projects to be integrated in government initiatives in order to keep 9-to-5ers interested? 1:01:16 – How has COVID19 changed Civic Tech Toronto? Civic Tech Toronto Twitter account twitter.com/CivicTechTo Skaidra Puodziunas twitter.com/skaidrap Curtis McCord twitter.com/cwm_ John Spragge twitter.com/johnspragge Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep43 - The State of Civic Tech

Amanda Renteria is the former Chief of Operations at the California Department of Justice, former Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. And a National Political Director for a large U.S. presidential campaign. And, back in May of 2020, she became the new Chief Executive Officer at Code for America, which is a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. But, her roots are as a teacher in her small hometown. And today she will tell us about how we can teach governments new ways on how to govern. Time stamps: 1:34 – Characterizing the relationship between members of the bureaucracy and elected officials. 5:12 – Talking about closing the feedback loops in government 7:35 – Amanda tells us the most important government processes that need to change. 10:50 – Amanda’s thoughts on how to rebuild trust between the government and public. 11:53 – Hackathons: Overused gimmicks or valuable exercises? 16:53 – How can we make Civic Tech projects sustainable? 18:58 – How can we bring more eyeballs to the Open Gov, Open Data, and Civic Tech movements? 25:20 – Teaching the media’s and public’s that government needs to experiment. 28:08 – Code For America’s involvement in the Pandemic recovery phase. 32:26 – If Code For America was granted 3 wishes, what would it wish for? 38:51 – Amanda’s thoughts on social injustice. Amanda Renteria Twitter account twitter.com/AmandaRenteria Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep42 - Amanda Renteria: Teaching governments new ways to govern.

Kishawna Peck is the founder and Executive Director of the Womxn in Data Science Conference, an event that provides a platform to women from diverse backgrounds to showcase their career journeys and knowledge. The conference itself is a two-day event where you get a chance to hear from women in academia, industry, government, and start-ups about how they apply data science to their work and the second day is a workshop. And today, Kishawna tells us the remarkable history of this staple Toronto conference. www.womxndsto.com Time stamps: 1:05 - Why did Kishawna create this conference? 2:45 - The relationship between Kishawna and the Stanford Women in Data Science Conference and how she went about organizing the Toronto rendition. 8:22 - How Kishawna reacted when she realized she, her family, volunteers were the only black faces at her first conference. 10:18 - How Kishawna was able to create a diverse pipeline of future speakers/facilitators in data science. 12:27 - Kishawna's original career had nothing to do with Data Science, so I ask her what brought her into the fold. 13:46 - Data ethics. 15:40 - Why she stepped away from the Stanford and how she created her own brand. 22:11 - How she went about planning the last conference, which included a trip to the hospital due to a mini-stroke. 29:09 - Kishawna's vision for the future of the conference. Kishawna Peck Twitter account https://twitter.com/DaytaDahta Toronto Womxn in Data Science Conference https://twitter.com/WomxnDSTO Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep41 - Kishawna Peck: Backstory on how the Toronto Womxn in Data Science Conference was created

Today's episode is a complete and spicy reading of the International Open Data Charter. A kind of audio-policy-document for aspiring and active Open Government & Open Data practitioners. For those of you who don’t know, the International Open Data Charter is a set of values and principles used to create and release government Open Data sets. Since its inception in 2015, there have been 74 national and local governments who have adopted the charter. https://opendatacharter.net/ Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep40 - Spicy Reading of the International Open Data Charter

Manjit Basi is a coach, learning facilitator, shift disturber and co-founder of the Ottawa-based Synapcity (formerly the Citizens Academy), a community organization whose mission is to create space and inspiration for citizens to change the city they live in. And today Manjit will tell us the journey on how the Citizens Academy was created and why it was re-branded into Synapcity. Time stamps: 1:11 - What was the catalyst behind the Citizen's Academy? 6:16 - Would you say being a community organizer or change agent is a calling for the people involved with the Citizen's Academy? 9:29 - How did the concept change from its original inception? 14:30 - Tell us more about how you were able to execute on your vision. 20:40 - Tell us more about how you were able to integrate the Civics Boot Camp so well with the City of Ottawa. 26:48 - Tell us the story behind the rebranding of Citizens Academy to Synapcity. 30:45 - Were there any doubts about the new rebrand? 40:35 - Final thoughts from Manjit. Manjit Basi Twitter account twitter.com/manjitbasi Synapcity Twitter account twitter.com/synapcity Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep39 - Manjit Basi: Backstory on how the Citizens Academy / Synapcity was created

The Canadian Digital Service teams up with federal departments and agencies to put people’s needs at the centre of government services. And today we will go behind-the-scenes and learn the details on how Covid Alert was created. Emily Kuret (the CDS Product Manager) and Josh Ruihley (the Senior Technical Advisor) join us and share details about its development. Everything from the "pre-green-light" internal testing to why the CDS chose to re-create a more modern version of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet to help front line workers share the one-time-key to Canadians. Blog post from CDS Team about the COVID Alert app https://digital.canada.ca/2020/07/31/continuously-improving-covid-alert/ Emily Kuret Twitter account twitter.com/emilykuret Josh Ruihley Twitter account not available Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep38 - Canadian Digital Service: Behind-the-Scenes on how the COVID Alert app was created

Kristo Vaher is the Chief Technology Officer for the country of Estonia and a strong believer in de-centralized, non-monolithic micro service-oriented government architecture. He has been an international leader in government transformation for a number of years, and a few months ago he published his newest vision paper titled “Next Generation Digital Government Architecture.” And today, Kristo will tell us more about that paper and answer questions from our mailbag. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UJ-5wi9wavWzA2n4LhsbONJqdxjUSIgMxKJNaZZslas/edit Kristo Vaher Twitter account twitter.com/kristovaher Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep37 (mailbag) - Kristo Vaher: Next Generation Digital Government Architecture

Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister for the country of Taiwan. Today is Part 2 of our interview with Audrey Tang, the Digital Minister for Taiwan. In Part 1 we discussed her journey as a civic organizer, beginning with how she dropped out of school at the age of 14 to start an IT company and concluded with her involvement with g0v. For those who didn’t get a chance to listen to Part 1, Audrey has a very rich international work history and her influence ranges from coding, to silicon valley startups, to research, and even grassroots activism that help to transform a government. And she was able to do all this before she was 40. And to top it all off, even though she is currently the Digital Minister for Taiwan, she officially retired about 5 years ago Click below for full episode transcript graciously provided by the Taiwanese government. https://reopengov.org/episode/ep36-audrey-tang-biography-of-a-poetician-part-2/ Audrey Tang Twitter account https://twitter.com/audreyt Richard Pietro Twitter account https://twitter.com/richardpietro ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

ep36 - Audrey Tang: Biography of a Poetician (Part 2)

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