The 311 Podcast

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The 311 Podcast

The 311 Podcast, hosted by Paul Bellows, is dedicated to exploring and sharing stories of the people behind digital transformation and organizational change management in Public Service organizations.

DEC 5

S2 E2 - Reinventing Government Payroll Systems with Alex Benay

From Ashes to Solutions: The Phoenix Project RevisitedToday, my guest is Alex Benay. Alex has recently returned to the federal service of Canada to lead the modernization of Canada's federal payroll system. Starting in 2009 and launching in 2015. The Phoenix project was meant to replace a 40 year old technology stack and save millions of taxpayer dollars each year. However, after launch it quickly became apparent that there were major inconsistencies and gaps in paying Canad...

37 min
NOV 5

S2 E01 - An EPIC journey with Penny Rae

Scaling Success in Healthcare IT for Alberta Health ServicesToday, my guest is Penny Rae. Penny is the Chief Information Officer for Alberta Health Services. AHS is the health delivery organization for the province of Alberta in Canada. AHS is the largest health care delivery organization in North America. And with nearly 150,000 employees and contractors, it's one of the top five employers in all of Canada. The IT department alone is 2,500 people. So the scale of Penn...

41 min
2022-12-14

09 - Power and Change with Sophia Hoosein and Jessica MacQueen

I am really excited today to be talking to Sophia Hoosein and Jessica McQueen, who are two people that I know and respect and who have agreed to come and talk to us about government organizations trying to make digital change. We're going to talk about power and how you get things done, and I'm just really excited. Thanks to Sophia and Jessica for the open and honest conversation about the actual experience of working in government. --This is a show about the people that make digital governme...

48 min
2022-10-27

08 - Interpreneurship with Miki Stricker-Talbot

This is The 311 podcast. I'm your host, Paul Bellows. This is a show about the people that make digital government work. If you'd like to find out more, visit yellowpencil.com. Today, my guest is Miki Stricker-Talbot. Miki is responsible for intrepreneurship and strategic design in the citizen services branch at the city of Edmonton.You may ask what intrepreneurship is and my answer is keep listening. That's what we'll be talking about. In addition to organizational design, kindness, privileg...

30 min
2021-03-06

07 - Creating Equity with Lawrence Eta

Today my guest is Lawrence Eta, Chief Technology Officer at the City of Toronto. Toronto is the fourth largest municipality in North America, behind Mexico city, New York city, and Los Angeles. Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. And it's the home of much of Canada's media and cultural community, as well as the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks.Toronto's population is about as diverse as it gets both culturally and economically, and the city faces unique, d...

29 min
2020-12-29

06 - Digital Innovation with Dominique Bohn

Today, my guest is one of Canada's most influential government technologists. Dominique Bohn is the chief officer and assistant deputy minister at the digital innovation office at the government of Alberta.Dominic has held various executive leadership roles in the government of British Columbia, as well as a director role at global IT leader CGI. Alberta's digital innovation office is a relatively new department at the government of Alberta. It reports to executive council and has been given ...

39 min
2020-12-01

05 - City Innovate with Jay Nath

Today, my guest is one of my favorite people in gov tech. Jay Nath is the co-CEO of City Innovate. They're based in San Francisco, where Jay was the former Chief Innovation Officer for the City of San Francisco. City Innovate is a program that Jay founded during his tenure with the city, and it was time to move on, he took the program with him, and he and his colleague Comran Siddique now run cohorts of cities through their matchmaking and procurement platform. They helped cities connect...

34 min
2020-10-26

04 - Upgrading the CDS with Sean Boots

Sean Boots, technical advisor at the Canadian Digital Service, joins Paul to share his experience with digital government and bringing modern tools to government workers.Sean Boots:https://sboots.ca/https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanboots/This is a show about the people that make digital public service work. If you'd like to find out more, visit northern.co/311-podcast/ We're going to keep having conversations like this. If you've got ideas of guests we should speak to, send us an email to the3...

29 min
2020-10-26

03 - Open source government with Norman Mendoza

Norman Mendoza, manager of business and technology innovation at the City of Edmonton, joins Paul to share his experience with open source and open data, and how to make practical use of them within the context of a municipal government. Norman Mendoza on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/normanmendoza/Norman Mendoza on Twitter:http://twitter.com/normanmendozaThis is a show about the people that make digital public service work. If you'd like to find out more, visit northern.co/311-podcast...

23 min
2020-09-02

02 - Open source government with Bianca Tomazeli

Bianca Tomazeli, senior advisor for architecture, security and innovation at Ville du Montreal, joins Paul to share her experience building an open source practice and talks about collaboration, cost management, and long term support. Find out more about Montreal's open source work at: https://github.com/opensourcecities/montrealThis is a show about the people that make digital public service work. If you'd like to find out more, visit northern.co/311-podcast/ We're going to keep having conve...

26 min
2020-07-20

01 - Governing A.I. with Ashley Casovan

Ashley Casovan, AI Global's Executive Director and former Director of Data and Digital for the Government of Canada, joins host Paul Bellows for a frank discussion on the ethics and responsibilities of governments using Artificial Intelligence technology, and the many uses to which A.I. can be put.Government of Canada's Algorithmic Impact Assesmenthttps://open.canada.ca/aia-eia-js/?lang=enAshley Casovan on Twitter:@ashleycasovanAI Globalhttps://ai-global.org/This is a show about the people th...

25 min

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2020-08-13

heavyastronaut

Awesome podcast. Totally recommend.

The 311 Podcast, hosted by Paul Bellows, is dedicated to exploring and sharing stories of the people behind digital transformation and organizational change management in Public Service organizations.

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The 311 Podcast for Northern
Years Active

2020 - 2024
Episodes

11
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