Learning catalogue

This video provides an overview and demonstration of the e-Estonia journey followed by a conversation with Anett Numa, Digital Transformation Adviser at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre.

Ailish Campbell, Ambassador for Canada and the European Union, Stefanie Beck, Deputy High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, and Michelle d'Auray, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the OECD discuss economic, security and societal forces shaping current events in the EU.

This conversation with Anil Arora, Chief Statistician at Statistics Canada, Claire Durand, Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal, and Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist and Founder of Nanos Polling is about exploring such issues as how the media affects polling consumption and quality, whether polls are suffering from fewer and less diverse participants, and what intelligent consumers should look for when trying to figure out the quality of a poll.

This inspiring event presents the latest digital governance innovations in Estonia, including what fuels the government to embrace leading-edge technology and relevant legal considerations, their methods for selecting the right projects, and how they leverage crowdsourcing to identify innovative solutions.

This event features Wingham Rowan, British entrepreneur and President of Modern Markets for All, who discuss the challenges facing irregular workers in today's economy, steps taken by governments to correct market inefficiencies and ways in which policy could help reshape the relationship between irregular workers and their employers.

Dr. Deep Saini, President of Dalhousie University, and Dr. Suzanne Fortier, Principal of McGill University discuss the future of higher education.

This event recording highlights the dramatic changes in the data landscape, and ways to leverage how people use the web to collect real-time sentiment data and draw from populations historically under-reflected in conventional data collection approaches.

This must-attend event features the remarkable Jocelyne Bourgon, President of Public Governance International and esteemed former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, who will discuss the importance of talent development and the impact of effective leadership in the context of today's modern public service.

This conversation between Dori Tunstall, Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, and Adrian Harewood, co-host of CBC News Ottawa, is about their memorable achievements, letdowns, and hopes for the future, what the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic have taught us about working towards a better and more consciously inclusive society, what lessons they take from their careers in design and journalism that might inform a better path forward for the public service and what they believe organizations like the public service can do to achieve a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.

Experts James L. Perry, Lotte Bøgh Andersen and Jeannette Taylor share the results of their research on the links between public service passion, workforce satisfaction, and organizational success.

Early social media adopters Naheed Nenshi, former Mayor of Calgary, and Marsha Lederman, journalist with the Globe and Mail, discuss how social media has helped them to engage with the public, develop brand trust and build stronger communities.

The speakers Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator for NASA's Psyche mission, and Sarah Gallagher, Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency discuss such questions as: how does space ambition contribute to useful innovation, greater prosperity and better security and what can space research and development teach us about fostering innovation here on earth?