Jennifer Kavur

Articles by Jennifer Kavur

Nunavut’s CIO: Why citizens deserve self-service

Peter Baril talks about next-generation citizen services, identity management, why lines between jurisdictions need to disappear and how tech needs to filter feedback for politicians. WITH VIDEOrn

How businesses can be more analytical

SAS brings Thomas Davenport to Toronto to discuss his new book. The five success factors in the DELTA model and a scale for determining how analytical your organization is

Cancer Care Ontario swaps Excel for SAS

The provincial agency uses analytics to forecast who will need chemotherapy and where they will go for treatment

Don’t use the Patriot Act as an excuse

Canadians are quick to use the U.S.A. Patriot Act as an excuse to avoid cloud computing, but they might not know many of the same laws already exist in Canada. Privacy lawyer David Fraser highlights the similarities at an OPC-hosted event

OPC gathers input on privacy and cloud computing

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is making its rounds across the country to gather input for an upcoming review of PIPEDA. Highlights from a panel discussion in Calgary between IBM, the EFF, CBS News and Syntenic

Lac Carling: U.K. speaker pitches co-production

Matthew Horne presents the case for co-production in Canadian public services, but figuring out how to use technology to support relationship services remains a challenge. Examples of co-production projects from around the world

Lac Carling 2010: Q&A with David Eaves

VIDEO: David Eaves discusses open data in Canadian government. Where the three levels of government stand, how Canada compares to other nations and whether top-down support is necessary. Plus, open vs. default vs. common standards

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