Follow the Money. The Other Money. Our Money. And Assets. ConnectTO, the City of Toronto’s internet equity program, is headed to Executive Committee tomorrow, May 4, 2022. You can sign up to speak or send letters to the committee here (top left). I saw a flurry of activity on twitter…

Industrial Enthusiasm Meets Governmental Pandemic Response Please see the first five posts in this series, and my recent oped in the Toronto Star, for general context. …

Oversight for Effectiveness But Where? Please see the previous pieces in this series and this recent oped in the Toronto Star Who Should Be Holding Health Canada Accountable? In trying to figure out who should be holding Health Canada accountable for shutting down the broken COVID Alert app, I had…

High Level Mapping and Reframing Please see parts one, two, three, and this oped as prior information. To continue to try to understand what went on/is going on with Health Canada and the COVID Alert app, we’re going to try to construct a map of the different pieces of the…

Understanding the Timeline, Processes, and Workflows Please see part one and two of this series. Also, today in the Toronto Star I suggest that beyond getting Health Canada to shut down the app, we need to have a formal postmortem about COVID Alert to document the lessons learned for future…

We need to show up and support a new municipal broadband effort The ConnectTO item is an important one for a lot of people in this City and it would be a shame to see it stopped so early in its tracks. …

Even if We Had Testing Capacity, the App Should Still Go Away If you haven’t read the first post, please start there. And to avoid any of this getting too long and overwhelming, I’m going write a part III (maybe more?). …

Tech Experimentation, Political Consequences, Technosolutionist Policy Over the course of the weekend, a fellow tech community member shared the unfortunate and common news that his family had contracted Covid. He was asking if there was anywhere to report their cases, and in doing so mentioned that Canada’s COVID Alert app…

A post in a series to understand and assess the procurement process followed for PayIt. This post is a straight copy/paste of a thread of tweets — this is an archival post to cover tweets from Mar24-Mar 31, 2022 “Once an Unsolicited Proposal has been submitted, proponents do not have…