November 28, 2022 Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about ArriveCAN today. Our firm, Digital Public, does work focused on digital transformation, both in government and more broadly. I am sharing thoughts today based on my experience working with software, as a product manager, and working as…

Five Major Problems with AIDA This is the third in a four part series of posts on the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act that is part of the Canadian federal Bill C-27. To start with what AIDA is, in very basic terms, see the second post. …

The 5 Ws of AIDA This is the second in a four part series on the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA). The first post has some vital history on human rights and previous efforts to legislate tech in canada, this second post is not about analysis but rather a…

The Allure of False Complexity As I consider the days and weeks ahead of reading, writing, administrative hustling, and organizing around Bill C-27, a few baseline thoughts about why. Why to spend some time, not a lot, but not none, on this topic. Given the request of others time and…

What Are We Actually Worried About Here? This is a series of posts on the AI and Data Act (AIDA) portion of Bill C-27. To begin, we’re going to go back in time a bit to put some longer context around the current government effort to legislate AI in Canada…

Auditor General, Project Status, FOI adventures, and More It has been two months since I last posted a series of PayIt tweets, for archival purposes. I haven’t had a chance to synthesize a lot of what has been going on over the lats several months, but expect to before year’s…

Decision on Mandatory App Narrative Has PHAC Backed Into Corner This is the eighth post in a series on ArriveCAN, please see prior posts for more context and background. This post is about the confusion regarding ArriveCAN’s purpose, a reminder of how/why we got here — from a legal and…

Mandatory Use of ArriveCAN was Built and Runs on Public Confusion about the Quarantine Act This is the seventh post in a series on ArriveCAN, please see prior posts for more context and background. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to take part in two conversations, one short (Metro…

Some of what we know about the glitch This is the sixth post in a series. It’s short, and it seeks to start to piece together some of what we know about the recent ArriveCAN glitch. On July 22, 2022 CBC’s the National aired a segment detailing the experience of…