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“Answering this question in English would be different than answering this question in Kanien'kéha. In English I'd say, 'everything is connected' but in Kanien'kéha it's built into our language in fundamental ways.” Brad Greyeyes-Grant #fwd50

“Indigenous peoples hold a strong understanding of what happened to their lands and their waters, and the living beings calling that land home.” Sean Power kicking off the afternoon session on Open Science & Indigenous Knowledge #fwd50 @fwd50

"So none of you have heard of a TBS strategy that is supposed to support Indigenous data sovereignty?" "…nope." "That says something right there." #fwd50

“Research in the past has always been about negative things, 'deficit-based research'. There's a lot of good things happening: language revitalization, people getting their degrees. Look at the good stuff too, it brings positivity to everybody.” Dr. Morgan Kahentonni Phillips #fwd50

Delta Flood: “Stop making us give you little points or tiny polygons. Let us give you a great big picture and accept that, that is what this is. Let us give you the big-picture versions of things instead of piecemeal.” #fwd50

That's a wrap for Day 1 at #FWD50 2023! And what a day it was; asking ourselves questions on digital transformation, service delivery, digital maturity, Indigenous knowledge, team management, user research and more within the context of public service and government!

The fun doesn't end there - tonight at 6PM, grab your tickets for 'Glorious Blunders: A Public Service Fail Fest' at the Three Brewers in Ottawa (https://www.fwd50.com/session/1245/glorious-blunders-a-public-service-fail-fest)

“The emphasis on caring about user needs, about understanding the importance of user research, and having empathy for users. That's what we need from leadership.” Ebony Sager #fwd50

Resonant hits from @acroll’s @fwd50 #FWD50 opener: Salmon ladders of incremental progress beyond the meta-obstacle of systemic barriers to progress, the reminder that we’re all part of - and contributing to - that system and so have an opportunity to contribute to lifting others up, and this … love and have been practicing hacks for many years, celebrate hacking co-conspirators … and yet …

Great points by Kris Lovejoy about the importance in data when it comes to AI. Love that she highlighted Augmented Intelligence, Another great speaker at #FWD50

What are we doing on addressing our legacy infrastructure?

https://www.fwd50.com/session/1166/tackling-tech-debt-for-a-cyber-resilient-canada

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How do we move from directives to dialog? Trusting people to solve the problem in the best way they know how - Great talk by @pahlkadot about not just staying in your lane #fwd50

Honey Dacanay and Katy Lalonde introducing the next panel! 🎉 #fwd50

@afhill Stuart Brand's Pace Layers are great.

I was looking at ways to apply his ideas to government https://codepen.io/mgifford-the-typescripter/pen/qBoYKoP

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“Even the act of getting information – we share – is part of our culture. Information that I have, it doesn't belong to me, it belongs to my community and culture.” Delta Flood #fwd50

“In academia it's pretty established that data is shared. But for crown corporations that's often not the case.” Dr. Morgan Kahentonni Phillips on having to ask for her community's data back. #fwd50

”We are all part of the solution, we can’t just stay stagnant and blame other people. We have to take action.” Xiaopu Fung #fwd50

Anita Anand mentions there are 30,000 vacancies for digital jobs in the GC. As a former GC-er who moved to the provincial ps, wonder how much flight there has been to other jurisdictions, and if there's any good learnings there... #fwd50

@sboots @anze3db This is very cool! Also did not know there were so many devs on Mastodon. It's fun following the #fwd50 hashtag, people are so excited to be there. I retired as a DND systems architect a decade ago, but it's still interesting to me to see what the government is up to.

”…it‘s a piece of software, I guess…” Highly accurate line of the day from Xiaopu Fung. 😅 #fwd50

It's been a full house this morning to kickoff Day 1 of #FWD50 2023.

We opened with our welcoming keynote from Co-Founder and Content Chair @acroll, The Hon. Anita Indira Anand (President, TBS), Kris Lovejoy (Global Practice Leader, Security & Resiliency Kyndryl), Robyn Scott (Co-Founder & CEO Apolitical), Jacqueline Lu (President & Co-Founder Helpful Places), @sboots, Jennifer Pahlka, and The Hon. Terry Beach (Minister of Citizens’ Services, Government of Canada).

"How do we get mass adoption? We have to make it seamless and easy for our customers." Minister Terry Beech #fwd50