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Ontario Digital ServiceDigital, the Ontario government, and all things in between. Learn more at http://ontario.ca/digital
Note from the editor
The Ontario Digital blog collects the thoughts, ideas, work, and discussions around digital government in Ontario. The blog will be updated weekly and will feature updates from the Digital Government team and from members of the community working on digital government, open government, civic technology, and other related topics. (The views expressed reflect those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Government of Ontario.) The Digital Government team is committed to accessibility. While the Medium platform is not, at this time, standards-compliant, we continue to advocate for more accessibility features; as per the Ontario Public Service Accessible Customer Service policy, we are happy to send plain-text, accessible versions of all pieces of content posted on this blog upon request.
Editors
Writers
ONtario #DigitalGOV TEam
James McKinney@ONgov Digital Government Office, @OpenNorth founder, opengovdialogue.ca organizer
ONtario #DigitalGOV TEam
Honey DacanayProfessionally awkward. Digital government and public admin nerdery.
ONtario #DigitalGOV TEam
Dana PattonService designer, user researcher, and proud member of the Ontario Digital Service
ONtario #DigitalGOV TEam
Matthew GrayWorks in Ontario’s Digital Government Office. Eager student of government, media, and technology.
ontario.ca Strategy team
Chris Bell@ONgov Ontario.ca product manager. WordPress fan. @YouVersion user advocate.
ONtario Digital Marketing TEam
Jennifer StubbsAssistant Director of Marketing and Digital Strategy. Jen’s background (and passion) is great design, user experience and digital marketing.
Assistant Director, Ontario.ca
Amy SwensonAssistant Director, Ontario.ca. Passionate about public service, user-focused design, web technologies, and using wOBA as a measure of a hitter’s true ability.
ONtario.ca UX TEam
Noelle Campbell-SmithInteraction Designer on the Ontario.ca team, inclusive design and tai mantis kung fu practitioner
ONtario #DigitalGOV TEam
Katherine BenjaminDeputy CTO for Digital Services @NYC_CTO . Using shiny digital things to make stuff better. Service Design @EmilyCarrU . Prev @Ayogo @ONgov @NHSEngland
Ontario Chief Digital Officer
Hillary HartleyGeek passionate about making government better with digital. Day job @ONgov. Night job picking up Lego.
Deb Matthews
MPP for London North Centre. Deputy Premier. Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development. Minister Responsible for Digital Government.
Nancy Walton
Director, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University and Former Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister, MAESD.
Laura Wells
Fourth year Global Business & Digital Arts student, currently working as a Digital Service Intern for the Ontario Digital Service.
Subul Wasi
4th Year Global Business and Digital Arts student, currently working as a Digital Service Design Intern at Ontario Digital Service
Rachel Barton
I think about teamwork, justice, tech, faith, policy, and what it means to be human in a world that would gently prefer we were robots.
Elias Da Silva-Powell
Aspiring people-person. Likes: meaningful work, tinkering. Dislikes: conflict, eggplant. Professional captain of an amateur dodgeball team.
ebony.sager
Works @ ODS. Bookworm, Digital Pack Rat and Infovoire. Parent and Derby Player (Elle Bowie) in training. Now…”Let’s all be social butterflies”.
Karl Frost
Director of the Strategy and Innovation Branch in the Ontario Public Service. Big fan of hockey, baseball and Toronto’s east end.
Elizabeth Barber
Service design & User Research intern for the ODS. Master of Public Service student at the University of Waterloo.
Public Policy Forum
We work with government, the public service, the private sector, labour, academia, NGOs and Indigenous groups to improve policy outcomes for Canadians.
Sasha Gronsdahl
Policy nerd passionate about community connections and west coast wandering. Overly reliant on coffee and sticky notes.
Eleanor McMahon
MPP for Burlington. President of the Treasury Board. Minister Responsible for Digital Government.
Kelsey Merkley (née Wiens)
(née Wiens) @uncommon_women founder. Believer of Functional Pocket Feminism, lover of Whisky, founding member of G.S.D Brigade.
Bianca Sayan
Bianca Sayan (she/her) works on the data catalogue as part of the Open Government team in the Ontario Digital Service.
Sharon Kashani
Inspired by public policy, strong research, meeting user-needs, and recreational soccer.
Claudia Hopkins
Designer at the Helix Centre with a passion for designing inclusive public services. Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduate.
Michael Martino
Customer Experience and Digital Strategist. Martial Arts Enthusiast. Nothing ever got done on the couch
Luke Simcoe
Director of Outreach at Code for Canada. Telling the Canadian story of civic tech and digital government. Find me on Twitter: @code4luke
Dara Renton
Head of product management at the ontario.ca/digital Formerly tpl.ca. Digital government, product management and LFC. YNWA
Alexandra Rodney
I’m a process improvement practitioner at the Ontario Digital Service. Find me on Twitter @Ali_Rodney
Uneeba Mubashsher
Design Researcher & Graduate Student in Psychotherapy https://www.linkedin.com/in/uneeba-mubashsher/
Dalia Hashim
Open Government, Policy Innovation, community building... Love chatting about new ideas or projects. What’s your story?
Peter Bethlenfalvy
Peter Bethlenfalvy is President of the Treasury Board of Ontario and Member of Provincial Parliament for Pickering — Uxbridge.
Neil Littlejohns
Building simpler, faster, better government services with the Ontario Digital Service.
Daphnée Nostrome
Championing practices that help the most vulnerable thrive in today’s tech-powered society.
