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At FWD50, inclusion and accessibility have always been top priorities. Our 2024 survey showed these remain crucial. How can we make digital government more inclusive? Join the conversation and tag #FWD50.

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"To increase state capacity and to build software together." Tamara Srzentić on forming the Rebel Alliance collaboration between countries #fwd50 @fwd50
Tamara presenting a slide with a flag labelled "Rebel Alliance".
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Home from fail fest at #FWD50
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Early morning bookclub with @pahlkadot at #fwd50 ...the #gov20 journey continues:)

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Group of people sitting and standing around a table in a very large room with arched ceiling.

Thomas goes to Washington

Last year I had the opportunity to attend the gov 2.0 Summit & the gov2.0 Expo Showcase as part of my responsibilities as Senior Director, Applied Collaborative Tools with the Canadian Governme…
NuSum
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“Test the thing that matters.” @tomski #FWD50 Could be a policy, a process, a small idea. Use this feedback loop for everything, but don’t wait for a big bang.
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“It's radical. But it's also obvious. Be brave. Be radical.” @tomski #fwd50
Tom presenting a slide that says: "The next revolution: This is radical. It's also increasingly obvious. Be brave. Be radical."
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For those of you that are curious here is an excellent introduction to complexity and the public service markfoden.com/clockcat #fwd50 #Podcast @markfoden

The Clock and the Cat Podcast — Mark Foden

A podcast of conversations about complexity in organisations and society.
Mark Foden
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“What if our number one priority was to deliver government services that made people feel agency, and empowered, and a sense of control?” Martha Edwards #fwd50 @marthaedwards
Martha presenting a slide that says: "What if we designed services that felt empowering, instead of confusing and stressful?" where "empowering" is highlighted.
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I do think (and I've said it before) that it all needs a refresh - or at least a formal reflection. It has been a decade plus and there is too much dogma now. We (and I'm part of the problem) failed to be agile about it all - we missed out on the interate, iterate, iterate element! #fwd50
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Amy Kirtay talking about the work in British Columbia on their Digital Code of Practice and especially the work they've been doing to create content to support the principles to show the *how* and how they tried to work in the open to create the code of practice - 😍 #fwd50
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”The right of First Nations communities to control access and ownership of their data is a fundamental part of self-determination and the protection and development of their culture.” From the First Nations Information Governance Centre fnigc.ca/ #fwd50

Home - The First Nations Information Governance Centre

We envision that every First Nation will achieve data sovereignty in alignment with its distinct world view.
The First Nations Information Governance Centre
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Gardening is a recurring metaphor for digital transformation work at #fwd50

Ursula Franklin’s metaphor of earthworming for social change—preparing the soil, a generational task—really resonates: lucascherkewski.com/study/eart…

Earthworming – Lucas Cherkewski

Ursula M. Franklin’s advice for social change
The Cherkewski View
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“The people we hire, they didn't sign up for this. They just want to do good work. And if you're from an equity group, you're paying double or triple taxes at this point.” Daphnée Nostrome on the emotional burden of transformation work #fwd50
Daphnée presenting a slide that says "In digital we pay a transformation tax: stress that comes from trying to deliver in a bureaucracy while convincing the system to trust the design process."
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Fantastic panel from Daphnée Nostrome, Xiaopu Fung, and Ebony Sager. ”We are in trouble but we have the advantage of knowing we are in great trouble. – James Baldwin” #fwd50 @fwd50
Daphnée concluding her presentation with a James Baldwin quote: "We are in trouble but we have the advantage of knowing we are in great trouble."
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Fantastic talk by @sboots on what ails government tech in Canada — and elsewhere — and what could be done to fix it, without a shoutout to @Marthalanefox’ paper in 2010 gov.uk/government/publications… & @govuk & @GDSTeam since. Humble, smart, inspiring. #fwd50

Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution, a report by Martha Lane Fox

A report from the Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox with recommendations for the future of Directgov.
Cabinet Office (GOV.UK)
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"We need to pull back and look at the system in which delivery operates. How do we change that larger narrative?" @pahlkadot at #fwd50
Jennifer Pahlka on stage at FWD50. Her slides on the far side say "How do we close the loop?"
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"Why were we expecting people to stand in line in the first place? Why couldn't they apply online? What was the inertia that was preventing that?" Minister Terry Beech at #fwd50
Minister Terry Beech speaking to a crowd at FWD50.
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.@sboots for Clerk. #FWD50
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Hahaha Martha Lane Fox is awesome!

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Listening to @sboots at #FWD50


Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution, a report by Martha Lane Fox

A report from the Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox with recommendations for the future of Directgov.
Cabinet Office (GOV.UK)
#fwd50 @Sean Boots

It's been a full house this morning to kickoff Day 1 of #FWD50 2023.

We opened with our welcoming keynote from Co-Founder and Content Chair @acroll, The Hon. Anita Indira Anand (President, TBS), Kris Lovejoy (Global Practice Leader, Security & Resiliency Kyndryl), Robyn Scott (Co-Founder & CEO Apolitical), Jacqueline Lu (President & Co-Founder Helpful Places), @sboots, Jennifer Pahlka, and The Hon. Terry Beach (Minister of Citizens’ Services, Government of Canada).

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Stuart Brand's Pace Layers are great.

I was looking at ways to apply his ideas to government codepen.io/mgifford-the-typesc…

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Great Q in the #fwd50 chat about how we replace tech but culture is more resistant to change. Makes me think about pace layers -
An image of different words stacked atop one another. Each layer is more easily changed than the one below. At the top is fashion, then commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture and at the bottom, nature.
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.@acroll referencing salmon ladders in his morning #fwd50 talk. The concrete salmon ladders down the street from my house in BC were recently removed - they'd been thrown up decades ago, and were recently replaced with a more natural envt. Extra metaphor?!
A man in a suit on a stage speaking on an audience. Next to him is a slide with a fish on it, and the words "Build salmon ladders. You can't climb the waterfall in a single jump. Win over change one process or person at a time"
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Great points by Kris Lovejoy about the importance in data when it comes to AI. Love that she highlighted Augmented Intelligence, Another great speaker at #FWD50

What are we doing on addressing our legacy infrastructure?

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Screenshot of presentation with Kris Lovejoy and Alistair Croll.
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Watching @acroll kick off @fwd50conf.

From QR codes for agenda & real-time translation to livestreams, it’s the best melding of online platform with offline conferencing I’ve seen.

Hybrid is REALLY hard, but these technologies help humans to bridge both space & time

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New blog post! 🐘 “Twitter is dead. Let’s start live-tweeting conferences on Mastodon instead.”

If you’re at @fwd50 this year either in person or virtually, I’d love to see you on Mastodon! sboots.ca/2023/10/27/twitter-i… #fwd50 #GCdigital #mastodon


Twitter is dead. Let’s start live-tweeting conferences on Mastodon instead.

It’s been almost a year since I stopped using Twitter on a regular basis. It was a big change given how large a role Twitter played in my professional life – connecting with public servants across Canada and around the world and learning from their e…
Sean Boots (sboots.ca)
#Mastodon #gcdigital #fwd50 @FWD50

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