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“articulating a real horizon of the common good, from which tools and technologies might flow, remains the much harder, non-technical task.” sarahendren.com/2024/03/18/b...
to address the flimsiness of paper we're going to...mmmm.... go for a stand-alone app digital wallet. like i can't.
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"We’re going to be able to address the ongoing embarrassment of the flimsy paper Alberta health care cards,” Smith said. “The new mobile health card is the first of its kind in Canada, and functions exactly like the existing paper ones.” calgaryherald.com/news/alberta...
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"The Alberta Wallet is available through the Alberta.ca Account and has an application on Apple and Android devices. The Mobile Health Card will be the first document available, with more to follow." www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
yep!
enjoy when i can't renew a mildly obscure book because someone else has a hold on it. big city togetherness.
www.tpff.ca
"Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. The author implores critics to reject structural dependencies on digital tools rather than naturalize their integration through critique and reform" YES www.sciopen.com/article/10.2...
I went to a rally against Ontario's Bill 33 yesterday. In today's newsletter, I've written a bit about the bill itself and its myriad terrible aspects, as well as how I'm thinking about protest and political engagement. open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...
Presence > algorithms.
Internalize this and you will understand a lot more about our current moment.
computers aren’t bought, they’re sold (old IBM sales framing. holds.)
NICE
who among us etc :)
speedruneing
:) :)
una apis, nulla apis is a beekeeper’s proverb - “one bee is no bee”
:) :)
happy birthday Henrik :)
:) thank you
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nice - happy to read this :)
right? :)
me too. the current one is very fine tip pink ink in a library book.
this thing where the govt does something really off, really publicly, is a way to normalize it
yeah this is what I mean - they keep saying things and also saying nothing
the next narrative line is going to be that we’re all getting a corporate donation from cohere. goodwill. be grateful.
digital sovereignty. good times.
hope the freedom of information requests are being filed.
the public service and the public writ large is getting mired in handing this company a competitive advantage?
was this a competitive opportunity?
ah this looks great - thank you :)
yes! 😂
remote option is available for some of the work groups - will keep you posted! :)
"Too long confined to a mission of cost savings and compliance, procurement—particularly at the local level, where decisions have a real and immediate impact on citizens —has the potential to become a significant catalyst of change." globalaffairs.org/sites/defaul...
gladly - nodding lots :)
canada's procurement data portal: canadabuys.canada.ca/en/procureme...
love to see it :)
right? :)
gladly :)
interesting. thank you
some background: biancawylie.medium.com/draft-tech-a...
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nice / new to me too, if you do will like to know what you think :)
ye olde is this or isn't this a new shape of a problem. annnd with that, good night :) (it's usually not)
there's something here about how a highly regulated profession is already used to having to pay v contextual and specific attention to take care with individual patient data. seems less clear as to how the profession is or isn't used to having to think about tech systems at the macro level.
there have been a few instances of different pooled health data projects that i want to spend more time on - this chartwatch thing flared up in the cbc a while ago and i've lost track of the data it was drawing from unityhealth.to/2023/02/char...
thanks for this - what i've read so far is that they should be getting patient consent, but yes to all the things you're saying and also trying to get my head around what happens with it all from there if consent is given. i mean, i know they've long had electronic notes, but yeah.
two things - one - there is nothing to connect Telus Health with Infoway here other than my reading about health tech history. two, this scribe example is a good one of AI in current use, with a mixed bag of info (from what little i can find so far) on the public oversight piece of the puzzle.
"...Infoway has created an AI Scribe Program, which launches on June 10, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. (central). Eligible primary care clinicians can apply for a funded one-year license for an AI Scribe solution from the list of pre-qualified vendors within their region" doctorsmanitoba.ca/news/ai-scri...
i don't know - it's reading like an acquisition party! :)
yeah me too :)
the political conditions feel like they would help this policy stick right now with less public engagement than usual. but really i don't know anymore.
AI continues to be the headline, but this digital public infrastructure stuff is rolling along - and it's usually a caught off guard sensation when it comes to consultation, so a good one to get a bit more read up on. it may also be more talk than action, but one of these times it's going to stick.
this piece is of the same era, also helpful background and context - written by @bluesky.sboots.ca sboots.ca/2022/04/21/s...
this is 3+ years old, but helpful for context and history of digital identity thinking and policy efforts in canada. medium.com/@supergovern...
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process avoidance / lack of valuing this kind of investment in the mess of people strikes again :)
yes!
gladly :)
i think that's something else than what i'm getting back, but appreciate it all the same
yes - refusing nostalgia is not refusing knowledge of the past
honestly
"Every problem that people have with their particular occupying army is the problem that we all have." - Ursula Franklin www.media-studies.ca/articles/fra...
:) :) applause
I like how it looks. this is like seeing a filter be created.
yes
lovable.dev
something fun about the government and government funded think tanks of a pretty slow-motion cultural change country being like - hey, small and medium-sized businesses, the heart and soul of our economy, please go fafo?
reminding me of how data trust conversations would arrive at the place of ok let's get into it in reality: sectoral use, use cases, or sand boxes (my favourite) - at which point the hope was that inefficiencies of corporate governance would... magically disappear? in highly-regulated industries?
...seems to hinge on their desperation for productivity increases, which they talk about at levels of abstraction that don't seem to map to appreciating how small/medium sized businesses actually function? it's a weird one.
because i'm rereading Kill It With Fire, reminded about how the author (Marianne Bellotti) talks about customer/industry fit/not fit - basically just because you made a cool thing doesn't mean anyone is going to want it. this situation with govt trying to force ai adoption as a writ large good thing
some specific points re: context and testing for smes from same panelist
as well as funding for ai adoption in the uk - this is being shared by a rep from british standards institution. now talking about the bridge ai program, what is the psychology behind resistance to adopting in AI from smes, how to use that learning to inform programming.
now rep from the uk is talking about the roll-out of ai adoption hubs for 2026
collaboration not duplication with standards
standards council of canada putting focus in international standards in some part due to amount of noise in the sector and also benefit of leading from behind given structure of canadian economy and canadian tech sector
vector saying policy makers have to think about incenting innovation rather than slowing it down. panelist says that companies are just trying to solve problems, are mostly good actors, don't create hurdles or you'll shut down innovation.
panelist from japan making good points here. if SMEs are so important then?
some suggestions from panelist for change management policy to adopt ai for small and medium sized businesses. says it helps to be done with real-world use cases, not top-down admin.
i'm laughing
enjoyed that moment where i paused to try to give you an answer that made sense. good one
they want it to happen faster, that's all i've got
now up from canada, rep from vector institute. says 80% of canadian companies are under 500 employees. panelist suggests that if companies don't implement AI they will become irrelevant.
panelist from italy suggests that adoption should bring value first, then can turn focus to making sure ai is safe/secure/trustworthy. if done the other way around it's too slow.
starting with the idea that small and medium sized companies don't have the talent to enable adoption of ai. second, entrepreneurs aren't seeing evidence of value of doing it, and tools are expensive. change management is always a slowdown. adoption through incremental steps is being suggested.
k now part two, talking about SME adoption.
some of what they're getting back in the report submissions
from the OECD presenter - companies that have recently reported back on implementation of HAIP
nice - thanks Ross :)
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