Digital startups have become an increasingly important part of national economic capability. They create new products and services, introduce technologies into established industries, develop intellectual property, attract investment and, when they scale successfully, create highly skilled jobs and new sources of exports. For governments, however, the objective should be more ambitious than simply increasing the number of startups created each year. The real strategic questio

Few government technology initiatives have attempted to change the operating model of government on the scale of Shared Services Canada (SSC). When the organization was created, the ambition was straightforward but enormous: take a fragmented federal IT environment spread across dozens of departments and agencies and consolidate common infrastructure, networks, telecommunications, data centers, email, and other technology services into a shared enterprise capability. The o

Cybersecurity is now a national capability Cybersecurity is no longer simply an IT problem managed by individual government agencies or private companies. As economies become more dependent on digital infrastructure, a successful cyberattack can disrupt electricity, water, transportation, healthcare, financial services, communications, government operations, and industrial production. The strategic challenge for governments is therefore not just how to protect individual s