
Civic Talk
Anne and Dorin are highlighting great public services from around the world. We want to draw back the curtain on innovative services, policies and programs that citizens and government insiders would be inspired by.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode Nine: Zayna Khayat, Digital Health Futurist....and Sherpa (Part Two)
Zayna Khayat, Health Futurist and Systems Thinker shares her vision for what patients should fight for in the future. In this wide ranging episode, she spotlights the best healthcare systems in the world and how we all need to be sherpas in the...
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9:34

Episode Nine: Zayna Khayat, Digital Health Futurist (Part One)
Zayna Khayat, Health Futurist and Systems Thinker shares her vision for what patients should fight for in the future. In this wide ranging episode, she spotlights the best health care systems in the world and how we all need to be sherpas in th...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:40

Episode Eight: The millennial public servant: one on one with Anil Wasif
Anil Wasif came to Canada from Bangladesh as a university student and now works in the Ontario Public Service. Like many young professional millennials, Anil has big ideas and big hopes for the future of government services and the impact mille...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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12:19

Episode Seven: A primer on user research with Katherine Benjamin
In this episode Katherine Benjamin, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the City of New York, explains what user research is, how it works and how user researchers like her are bringing a new approach to government services. Here are a...
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11:09

Episode Six: The California Recall
Wow! It really is the Wild West in California politics! While there's a federal election happening north of the 49th parallel, there's another *very different kind of election* happening in the most populous state in America. The Governor is be...
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17:43

Episode Five: COVID passports are here but should government be managing them?
Covid vaccine passports are coming to Ontario, other Canadian provinces, and jurisdictions around the world. Dorin and Anne discuss some of the issues that surround vaccine passports in other places around the globe.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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10:07

Episode 4: A conversation with Chief Digital Officer Natasha Clarke
Anne gets the scoop from Nova Scotia's Chief Digital Officer, Natasha Clarke, on what it was like to navigate a new team through the pandemic right after she was appointed to the position.
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11:45

Episode Three: Policy Whiplash Part 2
We confess to finding the loopholes in the COVID 19 public health policies--something that is just a part of being human that public policy doesn't always consider.
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8:02

Episode Three: Policy Whiplash Part 1
Will they go back to the classroom? Will they stay at home? When? How? What will class look like? In part one of our third episode we discuss our personal experiences with policy whiplash during the pandemic as it related to our kids' education...
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11:37
