Podcast appearances and mentions of richard pietro

Code for America was founded in 2009, since then it has grown into a national tour de force, driving massive government change and spawning other "Code For"'s all over the world. We had a chance at this year's Code for America Summit to sit down with founder Jennifer Pahlka to reflect back on the journey to get here and to look forward to what is next both for Code for America and for her, including a soon to be released book. Yes, you heard it here first! Jennifer Pahlka's Twitter account https://twitter.com/pahlkadot Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

In our crazy messy world, we need a reality check on open governments! Who better to give us this reality check than writer, digital governance expert and long time open government advocate Alex Howard. We had a chance to sit down with Alex at this year's Code for Canada Summit where we discussed not only the current health of democracy but also brainstormed solutions to strengthen our civic capacity. Alex Howard's Twitter account twitter.com/digiphile The Digital Democracy Project's Twitter account twitter.com/DigitalDemocrcy Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

We spoke with Amanda Renteria, Code for America CEO, moments after the conclusion of the 2022 Code for America Summit and discuss what is next for the organization and how the pandemic changed how we see hope in government. Amanda Renteria's Twitter account twitter.com/AmandaRenteria Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov The Voice of Stories from the Open Gov is Maurice Mendes 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

How can governments more effectively work with civic tech communities to deliver results? Great question, we are glad you asked. This has been a big theme at this year's Code for America Summit. We sat down to discuss this with Jessica Cole, co-founder and CEO of U.S. Digital Response (USDR), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. Jessica Cole's Twitter account twitter.com/jessunscripted US Digital Response's Twitter account twitter.com/USDResponse Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov The Voice of Stories from the Open Gov is Maurice Mendes 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/ #opendata #civictech #cfasummit #opengov #govtech

Day 1 of the Code for America Summit was jam packed. Join us as we do a breakdown of the key themes and trends and breakdown what this means for the future of civic tech. To help us with this analysis we had two friends join us: Ben Treviño the Brigade Program Director for Code for America and Mohith Rao the Brigade Captain for OpenSTL. Ben Treviño's Linkedin account linkedin.com/in/ben-trevino-35930a11/ Mohith Rao's Twitter account twitter.com/localtechsupp Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/ #opendata #civictech #cfasummit #opengov #govtech #cfabrigades

What's happening on the ground at this year's Code for America Summit? We wanted to find out, so we wandered around with a mic and asked people two questions: What does the theme of the summit: “Building a Path Forward Together” mean to them? What has been one of the highlights of the summit? Get a window into the best parts of the summit from five people who were there: Michelle Partogi, Service Designer at Code for America Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/michellepartogi/ Matthew Adendroff, Data Science Lead for Open Cities Lab Twitter: twitter.com/opencitieslabza Heather Benninghoven, Strategy Analyst for Benefits Data Trust Twitter: twitter.com/HBenninghoven and twitter.com/BeneDataTrust Hallie Martenson, Development Manager for Benefits Data Trust Twitter: twitter.com/HallieMartenson Felix Gilbert, President of Xcell Twitter: twitter.com/felixgilbert Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

It is day two of the Code from America Summit, and the place is a buzz with energy and ideas. Join us as we wander the summit floor and talk with people to find what the summit theme “Building a Path Forward Together” means to them and hear their highlights. We hear from: Maya Love, Data Science Fellow at Coro Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/maya-love/ Maani Stewart, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Alex Howard, Director of the Digital Democracy Project Twitter: twitter.com/digiphile Earnest Salgado, GSI for University of Chicago Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/earnestsalgado/ Krista Canellakis, Digital Service Program Lead at US Digital Response Twitter: twitter.com/kristallakis Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

The Code for America Summit has given us two days of incredible sessions, keynotes and community as we explored the future of government service delivery in a post pandemic world. Join us as we sit down to unpack all that we heard, what it means and where we go next. To help us with this analysis we had three friends join us: Jessica Cole's Twitter account twitter.com/jessunscripted Maya Love's Linkedin account linkedin.com/in/maya-love/ Tiasia O'Brien's Twitter account twitter.com/tiasiaobrien Code for America's Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro's Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton's Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov The Voice of Stories from the Open Gov is Maurice Mendes 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

One of the key themes for the Code for America Summit is Diversity Equity and Inclusion but what does this actually mean and how do we do it meaningfully so it's not just window dressing? To help us unpack this meaty and complex topic we enlist the help of three key and entertaining thinkers in the space here at the summit. Due to scheduling, this was recorded in two parts: Part 1: Brian Whittaker is the newly minted Acting Chief Innovation Officer for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He is is well known in Federal tech circles with over 10 years of experience leading IT transformation projects across the government. Angelica "Angie" Quirarte is the Federal Partnerships Director for the Tech Talent Project designed to diversify the tech talent being brought into governments. Part 2 (at the 19:12 mark): Victor Udoewa is the Chief Experience Officer & Service Design Lead for NASA. That's right the organization who put people on the moon, and Victor gives us a teaser of what is coming next. Brian Whittaker's Twitter account twitter.com/BrianTwittaker Angie Quirarte's Twitter account twitter.com/abquirarte Victor Udoewa's Linkedin account linkedin.com/in/udoewa/ Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

We sit down with Octavia Abell, the founder and CEO of Govern for America at the 2022 Code for America Summit. Octavia shares the story of Govern for America and its work to build the next generation of public servants. She also tells us her reflections on this year's summit and how we can build a path forward together. Octavia Abell Twitter account twitter.com/octavia_abell Govern for America Twitter account twitter.com/GovForAmerica Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

Every year the Code for America Summit is the must go to event for civic techies and open data advocates from across the continent and around the world. After the pandemic forced us all online, finally we are able to come together for a hybrid in-person and online summit being hosted May 17-18 in Washington, D.C.. For this year's summit we are trying something new. Partnering with Code for America, Stories from the Open Gov will be doing semi-live podcasting throughout the event. Think of this as your window into the summit: a chance to hear from key speakers, get insights from people on the ground and daily analysis of key themes that are emerging. To help kick this off, we are joined by Code for America's Chief of Staff, Ryan Ko and brand new Director of Communications, Marlena Medford. Join us as we discuss the upcoming summit, giving a peak behind the curtain and highlighting what to look for over the next couple days. Ryan Ko Twitter account twitter.com/ryanko Marlena Medford Twitter account twitter.com/MarlenaMedford Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton twitter.com/DerekAlton 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 hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners 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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister for the country of Taiwan. 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 helped to transform a government. And she was able to do all this before she was 40! To top it all off, even though she is currently the Digital Minister for Taiwan, she officially retired about 5 years ago And today Audrey will tell us 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 concluding with her involvement with g0v. In Part 2, Audrey will talk in more details about the Sunflower movement, how she became Taiwan's Digital Minister, and her accomplishments while holding that office. Click below for full episode transcript graciously provided by the Taiwanese government. https://reopengov.org/episode/ep35-audrey-tang-biography-of-a-poetician-part-1/ 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/

Raquel Bernedo Pardal and she is the Disaster Management Senior Officer for the Spanish Redcross. In Canada and the United States, the Red Cross is mostly known as an emergency services organization, but what I've come to learn is that in many countries the Red Cross is a much more integrated agency in the daily affairs of their communities. In the case of Spain, they help in job training and placement, social inclusion, environmental progress, and they even help school children with their studies. And today Raquel will tell us about CruzRojaResponde Open Data – an incredible tool that she and others at the Spanish Red Cross created - using Microsoft PowerBI - to help visualize and understand the work they do, the people they help, and the impact they've had in Spain. Link to Open Data dashboard https://www2.cruzroja.es/cruz-roja-responde-open-data Raquel Bernedo Pardal Twitter account https://twitter.com/raquelbernedo 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/

The Accountability Lab is a global network that is finding new ways to shift societal norms, solve intractable challenges and build “unlikely networks” for change. In this episode we continue our discussion from Part 1 on the international response to Covid-19 and also discuss how the Black Lives Matter movement in the West has affected (if at all) systemic discrimination in other parts of the World. We are joined by: Blair Glencorse, the Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Lab and he is based in Islamabad, Pakistan https://twitter.com/blairglencorse Doussouba Konate, the Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Officer for Mali and she is based in Bamako. https://twitter.com/DoussoubaKonate Eva Sander, the Country Director for Mexico and she is based in Mexico City. https://twitter.com/evasander Narayan Adhikari, the Country Director for Nepal and he is based in Kathmandu. https://twitter.com/yinayan The Accountability Lab Twitter account https://twitter.com/AccountLab 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/

The Accountability Lab is a global network that is finding new ways to shift societal norms, solve intractable challenges and build “unlikely networks” for change. Today's guests will give us their thoughts on how their countries are doing when it comes to open government and how well (or poorly) their country have responded to Covid-19. We are joined by: Blair Glencorse, the Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Lab and he is based in Islamabad, Pakistan https://twitter.com/blairglencorse Doussouba Konate, the Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Officer for Mali and she is based in Bamako. https://twitter.com/DoussoubaKonate Eva Sander, the Country Director for Mexico and she is based in Mexico City. https://twitter.com/evasander Narayan Adhikari, the Country Director for Nepal and he is based in Kathmandu. https://twitter.com/yinayan The Accountability Lab Twitter account https://twitter.com/AccountLab 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/

Jack Mailloux is the Director General for Enterprise Operations and IT Security for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and has been a long time advocate for Open Government & Open Data. And today Jack will tell us the backstory on what the people at the ESDC went through in order to launch the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program (CERB) - atleast from an Enterprise IT perspective. NOTES: As of June 20, 2020 CERB has processed over 8 million unique applicants, close to 16 Million applications in total since inception, and distributed over 43 Billion Dollars to Canadians in need. Jack Mailloux Twitter account https://twitter.com/IamJackMailloux Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Rufus Pollock, he is the founder and president of the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is a network of not for profits in dozens of countries that helped to pioneer Open Data and continue to create a more open World. They are responsible for creating the Open Data Index, Open Spending which is the largest open database of public financial information in the world, and CKAN, the World's leading open source data portal platform. Today Rufus tells us the backstory on how the Open Knowledge Foundation was created and how it was strongly influenced by the free and open source software movement from the 1990s, as well as a little known fella named William Tyndale. A scholar who was put to death after he translated the bible into English. You can read more about the "Theory of Change" on this blog post written by Rufus: https://blog.okfn.org/2012/09/13/managing-expectations-ii-open-data-technology-and-government-2-0/ Rufus Pollock Twitter account https://twitter.com/rufuspollock Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Pam Ryan is the Director for Service Development & Innovation at the Toronto Public Library (TPL), the World's largest urban public library system, featuring 100 branches, close to 1 million cardholders, and 10 million items that can be checked out. Today Pam tells us how the TPL is changing in the 21st Century to provide Torontonians access to digital innovation hubs, checking out arduino kits, and even offering space for community groups to organize and host events. She also shares a few stories on how the TPL has stepped-up during the COVID-19 lockdown to help foodbanks and those who do not have access to the Internet. TPL PRESS RELEASE: Free Internet Connectivity Kits from the Library provide vital connection for some of Toronto's most vulnerable residents https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/news_releases/2020/05/free-internet-connectivity-kits-from-the-library-provide-vital-connection-for-some-of-torontos-most-.html Pam Ryan Twitter account https://twitter.com/pamryan Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Mike Gifford is the owner of Ottawa based OpenConcept Consulting, a company that specializes in web development with a particular focus on open source and web accessibility. OpenConcept has also contributed to the Drupal Core. Today Mike helps us understand the various web languages through an analogy we can all relate to... cars. We also have an in-depth discussion on how web accessibility can help everyone, not just those with disabilities. Additionally, in the spirit of preaching what you preach, Mike had this episode transcribed for those who may want to read our conversation! Check it out by click on the link below: https://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/stories-open-gov-interview Mike Gifford Twitter account https://twitter.com/mgifford Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is also one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science; is the Principal of Jesus College Oxford; a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford; and a visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. Today Sir Nigel tells us the backstory on how the Open Data Institute was created thanks in no small part to an impromptu lunch between Sir Tim Berners-Lee and then U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Sir Nigel Shadbolt Twitter account https://twitter.com/Nigel_Shadbolt Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Joe Powell is the Deputy CEO at the Open Government Partnership, an international organization of reformers, inside and outside of government, working to transform how government serves its citizens. Today Joe and I discuss how COVID-19 has affected the Open Government movement worldwide, the future of the OGP, and Joe answers questions from our mailbag. Joe Powell Twitter account twitter.com/josephpowell Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Ashley Casovan is the Executive Director of AI Global, a nonprofit organization focused on putting research into action by creating tangible tools to help accelerate the design, development, and use of Responsible AI. Today Ashley and I discuss how her experience in Open Government has strongly influenced her work in creating tools, guidelines, and certification on “Responsible AI” …we even talk a little Black Mirror! Article mentioned in podcast: https://business.financialpost.com/transportation/rail/cn-rail-expects-automation-to-help-it-save-up-to-400-million-over-next-three-years Ashley Casovan Twitter account twitter.com/ashleycasovan Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Nathaniel Heller is the Managing Director of Geneva Global, a certified B Corporation that provides advice and services to help philanthropists, charitable organizations, and corporations maximize their social impact. He is also the former Civil Society Co-Chair for the Open Government Partnership as well as the Co-founder of Global Integrity. Today Nathaniel and I discuss an article he wrote called "The Strategic Philanthropist's Approach to COVID-19" and examine the future relationship between civil society and funding organizations. https://www.genevaglobal.com/blog/the-strategic-philanthropists-approach-to-covid-19 Nathaniel Heller Twitter account https://twitter.com/Integrilicious Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Mike Donis is a commercial video & film editor, actor, and independent filmmaker. Mike Donis IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2130844/ Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Alison Loat is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of the Samara Centre for Democracy. Alison Loat Twitter account https://twitter.com/AlisonLoat Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro ABOUT 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/

Melanie Robert is the Executive Director for Open Government and Services at Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat. Rob Davidson is the Co-Chair for Canada's Multistakeholder forum on Open Government and Data Analyst & Research Manager for the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Today we talk about the postponed plans for the Canada's next Open Government Action Plan and answer questions from the Open Government & Open Data community. Melanie Robert Twitter account https://twitter.com/MelRobrt Rob Davidson Twitter account https://twitter.com/ThatRobDavidson 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/

Melanie Robert is the Executive Director for Open Government and Services at Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat. Rob Davidson is the Co-Chair for Canada's Multistakeholder forum on Open Government and Data Analyst & Research Manager for the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) After recording our last episode, Melanie, Rob and I thought we should make a little more time and give our thoughts on what we think government will look like in a post-COVID19 World. Melanie Robert Twitter account twitter.com/MelRobrt Rob Davidson Twitter account twitter.com/ThatRobDavidson Richard Pietro Twitter account 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/

Jean Marc-La Flamme is the founder of Smart Villages and a Smart Cities Designer for rural communities. He is also the Director of Product, Marketing and Business Development for Dealpoint, North America's first equity crowdfunding platform to connect companies with private capital as well as InterGen a matchmaking plaform for companies and business talent. Jean-Marc La Flamme Twitter account https://twitter.com/FutureVillages 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/

The Honourable Tony Clement was an elected official from 1995 to 2019, first with the Ontario Legislature and then with the Canadian Legislature. And in both legislatures he held prominent cabinet roles. He is now a tech entrepreneur and international advisor. Tony Clement Twitter account https://twitter.com/TonyclementCPC 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/

Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds The Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law. He is also a privacy and internet advocate who has received many awards, including being appointed to the Order of Ontario 2018. Today he tells us about some of the necessary privacy and data trade-offs we need to make during COVID-19 and the safeguards to make sure they do not become a slippery slope in the future(we even talk a little Black Mirror). Michael Geist Twitter account https://twitter.com/mgeist 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/

Lindsey Marchessault is the Director for Data and Engagement at the Open Contracting Partnership and she is a member of Canada's Multi-stakeholder forum on Open Government. Today she will tell us how government procurement can be made open, especially during Covid-19 and in a post-Covid-19 World. Lindsey Marchessault Twitter account https://twitter.com/LMarchessault April 1, 2020 Open Government Community Call meeting notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pdytfi0j9aVL0D8vS5DR2fQFofome5qbpNPJAs0mxlw/edit 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/

Ryan Androsoff is the director for the Digital Leadership Program at the Institute on Governance and the Co-Founder of the Canadian Digital Service. Today he will give us a cursory look at how Covid-19 has affected the government, and how it will change it Ryan Androsoff Twitter account https://twitter.com/RyanAndrosoff 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/

Tracey Lauriault is an assistant professor of Critical Media and Big Data at Carleton University and she teaches critical data studies. She has been neck deep in Open Government & Open Data and was given the inaugural Canadian Open Data Leader of the Year award in 2016. Today she gives us an update on how Covid-19 has affected the Open Data landscape. Tracey Lauriault Twitter account https://twitter.com/TraceyLauriault Richard Pietro Twitter account https://twitter.com/richardpietro AABOUT 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/

Keith Loo is the In-Class Entrepreneur for the Schulich School of Business, the former Open Source Lead for Microsoft Canada, and current Chief Strategy Officer for TimeSaved, which is a workforce management startup. Today he tells the Open Government & Open Data community how we can begin to market and sell Open Government & Open Data to a larger audience. Keith Loo Twitter account https://twitter.com/thekeithloo 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/

Jesse Hirsh is the President of Metaviews Media Management and a futurist, particularly as it relates to technology and the Internet Today he explains how COVID-19 will affect the Open Government & Open Data movements and how its community can use this as an opportunity to create the government they want. NOTE: There are some audio irregularities due to internet bandwidth issues in the first 5-7min, but it clears up shortly afterwards. Jesse Hirsh article "COVID-19 and the learning curve of pandemic preparedness" https://metaviews.substack.com/p/covid-19-and-the-learning-curve-of Jesse Hirsh Twitter account https://twitter.com/jessehirsh 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 in and 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/

In this episode I discuss what we can learn from Red Letter Media and Tom's Hardware as a way help make Open Government & Open Data a reality. 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/

In this episode I discuss how the 2014 Open Government Tour was the "Johnny Appleseed" of the Canadian Open Government landscape and how Open Data Charter Board Member, aimee whitcroft (who prefers having her name spelled in lowercase letters) will be going on a similar journey this Spring. 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/

Season 3 is dedicated to explore a very simple question: How can we make Open Government more relevant and relatable to the public? In this episode I discuss how 70s computers, Geocities, and Danny DeVito can be used as lessons on how we can grow the Open Government community. 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 for Season Three is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen in and 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/

Instead of having to read 59 pages worth of a seemingly boring policy document, people now have the opportunity to listen on how the Canadian Federal Government is working in creating a more engaging, accountable, and transparent government. We conclude the reading of the Action Plan by going over four commitments: Access to Information, Feminist and inclusive dialogue, Reconciliation and Open Government, and Open Government Community. We will also conclude the reading of the 2018-2020 Open Government Action Plan by going over Annex A, B, and C As well, it is worth noting that (in all likelihood, if they have not already) Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat will soon begin work on their next installment of their Open Gov Action Plan and we - as a community - should know how well they fared with their current Open Gov Action Plan. 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/

Instead of having to read 59 pages worth of a seemingly boring policy document, people now have the opportunity to listen on how the Canadian Federal Government is working in creating a more engaging, accountable, and transparent government. This episode goes over three commitments: Digital Government and services / Open Science / Healthy Democracy As well, it is worth noting that (in all likelihood, if they have not already) Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat will soon begin work on their next installment of their Open Gov Action Plan and we - as a community - should know how well they fared with their current Open Gov Action Plan. 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/

Instead of having to read 59 pages worth of a seemingly boring policy document, people now have the opportunity to listen on how the Canadian Federal Government is working in creating a more engaging, accountable, and transparent government. This episode goes over three commitments: User-Friendly Open Government / Financial Transparency and Accountability / Corporate Transparency As well, it is worth noting that (in all likelihood, if they have not already) Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat will soon begin work on their next installment of their Open Gov Action Plan and we - as a community - should know how well they fared with their current Open Gov Action Plan. 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/

Instead of having to read 59 pages worth of a seemingly boring policy document, people now have the opportunity to listen on how the Canadian Federal Government is working in creating a more engaging, accountable, and transparent government. As well, it is worth noting that (in all likelihood, if they have not already) Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat will soon begin work on their next installment of their Open Gov Action Plan and we - as a community - should know how well they fared with their current Open Gov Action Plan. 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/

Today is an unscripted and unfiltered (somewhat) episode that looks back at our first season. Listen in as Richard Pietro & Troy Whitmore have a long discussion about Open Government, Open Data, this podcast and how it affects their daily lives. 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 co-hosts - Richard Pietro & Troy Whitmore - profile interesting and government-changing initiatives that you probably never heard about. Join them 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/

Today's stories are about the Toronto Open Data Master Plan, the Canadian Government Web Experience Toolkit, and the Province of Ontario rendition of GovJam. 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 co-hosts - Richard Pietro & Troy Whitmore - profile interesting and government-changing initiatives that you probably never heard about. Join them 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/ Royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music freesoundmusic.eu www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: youtu.be/EgqcGo7ha9A linkvertise.com/49870/StrollinDownBigBandMp3 MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Musical bed for episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqwxNsJd-M

Today's stories are about the Guelph Civic Accelerator, The "Open Data in Reverse" method for publishing Open Data sets, and DinesafeTO. 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 co-hosts - Richard Pietro & Troy Whitmore - profile interesting and government-changing initiatives that you probably never heard about. Join them 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/ Royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music freesoundmusic.eu www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: youtu.be/EgqcGo7ha9A linkvertise.com/49870/StrollinDownBigBandMp3 MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Musical bed for episode royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu https://www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... https://youtube.com/freesoundmusic

Today's stories are about Canada's Federal Free Agent Program, the Government of Ontario Public Sector Open Data working group, and the Toronto Wellbeing Map. 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 co-hosts - Richard Pietro & Troy Whitmore - profile interesting and government-changing initiatives that you probably never heard about. Join them 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 MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Musical bed for episode Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzsHv6FqfSU Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. Today, Tariq Khokhar, an Open Data Evangelist from the World Bank, provides us with an International perspective on this conference and movement.

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. Today, we present you Hanna Niemi-Huegaerts who is the Development Manager for the Forum Virium Helsinki

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events.

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and International Open Data Conference sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. Today, we present you Martin Szyszlican and how he is gamifying the legislative process in Argentina.

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!

Sameer Vasta and Richard Pietro are at the Canadian Open Data Summit and sharing their perspectives on the speakers, sessions, and events. They will also be doing interviews with a few guests!

This is our inaugural episode! We plan on posting many podcasts, so think of this as our "Simpsons Season One"...there will be a few kinks here and there but the show will grow and improve as we move forward :-) Today's episode will see Richard Pietro, co-host for the OGTpod and self-proclaimed fanboy of Open Gov & Data, be interviewed by Sameer Vasta...the other co-host of the OGTpod! We will explain what the Open Government Tour was all about and the reasoning for the creation of the Open Government Podcast. Richard Pietro https://twitter.com/richardpietro Sameer Vasta https://twitter.com/vasta Open Government Tour www.opengovtour.org Open Government is the Daft Punk of Government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DtEUJwevo We Are Open People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny8uUVBVzFo Music: Sheryl's Crush http://sherylscrush.com/

[More info, links and social media at gov20radio.com] Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC) is widely regarded as Canada’s pre-eminent Gov-Tech Conference.  Thom Kearney and Richard Pietro talk to us about their experiences with the 2013 conference in October and, against that backdrop, discuss how the govtech landscape is shifting in Canada.