All posts tagged "Alex Benay"

• 
  Statistics Canada to adopt “hybrid” cloud strategy

  Statistics Canada is to migrate its data to the cloud. The agency believes working with private sector cloud specialists will bring numerous benefits, such as affordable access to new technologies,

  • Posted January 19, 2020
  • 0
• 
  Canadian CIO group publishes national AI standard

  A Canadian body representing chief information officers from the public, private and voluntary sectors has set out national standards for the ethical design and use of artificial intelligence (AI), in

  • Posted October 8, 2019
  • 0
• 
  Michael Wernick on turbulent times for Canada – and its Clerk

  Michael Wernick, Canada’s outgoing Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, tells Matt Ross how the civil service is responding to an ever faster, more fractious world;

  • Posted September 16, 2019
  • 0
• 
  Canada’s digital chief Alex Benay quits government

  Alex Benay has announced he will step down as Canada’s chief information officer next month to “take on new challenge” at tech start-up MindBridge. “It is with mixed emotions that

  • Posted August 8, 2019
  • 3
• 
  Canada appoints partners to replace Phoenix pay system

  The Canadian government has appointed three tech vendors to test the options for replacing its doomed Phoenix pay system. Last year, the Ottawa administration announced that it would scrap Phoenix and

  • Posted June 19, 2019
  • 2
• 
  Canada pilots blockchain staff records

  The Government of Canada (GC) is using blockchain technology to issue project-based employees with a kind of digital CV, providing “a permanent, self-owned and secure record of their skills and

  • Posted June 17, 2019
  • 1
• 
  UK ID verification scheme hit by “optimism bias and ill-defined objectives”, says watchdog

  The UK’s flagship digital identity verification system has been severely criticised by the National Audit Office, in a move likely to reinforce the search for alternative models among other governments.

  • Posted March 11, 2019
  • 0
• 
  UK to insist suppliers pay SMEs quickly, says commercial chief

  The UK Government is to exclude companies from government procurements if they fail to pay their own suppliers within 60 days, the UK’s chief commercial officer told delegates at Innovation

  • Posted March 3, 2019
  • 0