Description
Book SynopsisOpening the Government of Canada provides a vivid and compelling account of the central challenge facing governments in the digital age: abandoning their “Closed Government” traditions to become more open, networked, and collaborative.
Trade ReviewAmanda Clarke’s Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures.
-- Andrea Rounce * Canadian Journal of Political Science *
The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands.
-- Alex Marland * The Hill Times *
Table of Contents1 Opening Government in the Digital Age
2 Canada’s Closed Government
3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada
4 Stephen Harper’s Open(ish) Government Initiative
5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy
6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy
7 The Future of Digital Government
Appendix A: Interview Index
Notes; References; Index
