Inside the federal bureaucracy, Clarke digs up a ‘creeping culture of excessive silos, hierarchies’ in digital attitudes

Amanda Clarke's Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age is a result of years of work documenting the Government of Canada’s transition to a digital world.

Canada's new Digital Minister Joyce Murray, pictured at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. What happens when the risk-averse organizational culture of the Government of Canada confronts the freewheeling style of digital culture? A purposeful slow reaction, finds a new book on the topic, writes Alex Marland. But make no mistake, digital government is a much bigger entity than it was even a few years ago. For evidence, one need look only at how the Government of Canada has upended where its advertising dollars go, with an unequivocal preference for digital.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALEX MARLAND

December 16, 2019

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.—What happens when the risk-averse organizational culture of the Government of Canada confronts the freewheeling style of digital culture? A purposeful slow reaction, finds a new book on the topic. Amanda Clarke is a public administration scholar at Carleton University who special...

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