Public Service
Past Event
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 4 – Building a nation-to-nation, government-to-government and Inuit-Crown relationship
The topic will cover Youth and next steps. Agenda to come.
Past Event
Public Policy Leadership Program: First Ottawa in-class session
This is the first three-day in-class session of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum and the Telfer School of Management.
Past Event
Public Policy Leadership Program: Bright Spots Visit
This is the two-day field visit as part of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum and the Telfer School of Management.
Past Event
Public Policy Leadership Program: Second Ottawa in-class session
This is the second three-day in-class session of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum (PPF) and the Telfer School of Management.
Past Event
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 3 – Working Together – Partnership and Co-development
Session 3: Working Together - Partnership and Co-development The program participants will hear from leading Indigenous voices on justice and economic development. Agenda to come.
Skills at Speed: Why Canada’s Public Service Should Grow Its Interchange Program to Build Skills and Networks
The public sector should expand its interchange program with the private sector in order to diversify its employees’ networks and skill sets and, in so doing, help the public service face employment challenges and disruptive technologies.
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Past Event
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 1 – Understanding and applying the government’s agenda
Session 1: Understanding and applying the government’s agenda. The session includes Indigenous leaders, discussion, critical thinking and interactive learning. The learning program will focus on considering concrete policy solutions to some of the topical and important issues associated with the Indigenous agenda.
Past Event
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 2 – Visit to Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation
Session 2: Visit to Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation with a conversation with Chief and Council as well as a stop at the school.
Kabilan: After the tornadoes, let’s avoid the ‘lessons learned’ trap
After six tornadoes ripped through the Ottawa region, there will likely be a review of how authorities responded to this event. The aim of such exercises is to identify the “lessons learned” from the incident in order to improve response and resilience in the future. Unfortunately, “lessons learned” is one of the most misused terms in emergency management.
Four strategies governments can adopt to manage change in the digital age
In 2017, the Public Policy Forum dedicated its annual Prime Ministers of Canada Fellowship to the idea of governance in the digital age. The goal was to explore and explain how the world is changing and how governments are responding. Kent Aitken won that Fellowship and wrote a report that practitioners can use as a resource as they contemplate the pressures of change on governance systems. Governance in the Digital Age is the result of a year of research, surveys and interviews with about 300 government practitioners and stakeholders in Canada and around the world.
Governance in the Digital Age
The digital transformation that governments are seeking and citizens are expecting is more than just 'a challenge,' says PPF's Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Kent Aitken in this new report. After conducting almost 300 interviews over the course of a year, he concludes that governments are currently not set up for the complexities of the digital age and suggests four areas that they need to fundamentally change.
Past Event
Governance in the Digital Age
On Oct. 1 PPF held a breakfast and a panel discussion with Kent Aitken, Bianca Wylie and Amanda Clarke to launch Kent’s study of Governance in the Digital Age. The report explores the challenges, opportunities, and cultures of the digital era, and distinguishes between what's simply "changing the channel" to digital and what's fundamentally different for governments and stakeholders.
Max FineDay’s challenge to Canada’s public servants: Embrace reconciliation or get out of the way
Indigenous leader Max FineDay had some strong words for a group of senior Canadian public servants: "If you are not in service to Indigenous people, it might be time for you to retire," the Executive Director of Canadian Roots Exchange told the group in a video message.
Canada’s Public Service Digital Leadership
Digital transformation in government raises unique challenges due to its size and structure, and PPF and Amazon Web Services Institute are collaborating to recommend how government can ensure it has a digitally skilled workforce and leadership with the skills to implement transformational technologies. This project builds on the priorities that were identified by a past roundtable of senior leaders, two workshops, and will result in a report on digital skills and leadership, including a focus on equity and inclusion, by Dr. Wendy Cukier of Ryerson University. Findings will be validated at a roundtable of leaders from government and industry in early 2019.