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Let's Think Digital

by Think Digital

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About this podcast

Let’s Think Digital is a podcast about what it takes to use digital technologies to transform our world to improve peoples’ lives. Hosted by Ryan Androsoff, Founder of Think Digital, alongside an incredible community of digital innovators from all walks of life, in this podcast we go beyond the traditional tech hype of founder culture, user counts, funding rounds and quarterly profits. Instead we talk about why systems resist change, and how transformation is just as much about people and culture as it is about tech stacks. We’re eager to talk about the political and philosophical ramifications of technology and what it means for the future of government. Our goal is to help you to learn about how digital is impacting our world, to ask better questions, and to be able to call bullshit when you need to!

Episodes

The newest 20 of 35 episodes

  • Back to the Start with the Functional Government Podcast · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 33We're back...sorta! A few months ago we officially brought the Let's Think Digital podcast to a close. I feel very fortunate to have been able to host three seasons of Let’s…
  • Let's Keep Thinking Digital · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 32This is the final episode of the Let's Think Digital podcast in its current form. I've been thinking a lot about transitions recently. Last month, I had the honour of being asked…
  • Just Evil Enough (with Alistair Croll) · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 31To change systems, sometimes you need to bend the rules, or even rewrite them. That's the argument that Alistair Croll and Emily Ross make in their new book, Just Evil Enough…
  • Data, Data Everywhere, And Not a Drop to Drink (with Maddy Dwyer, Anna Wong, Trevor Banks...and ChatGPT) · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 30Data is the lifeblood of any organization, including government. And in today’s digital age, there are very real questions about whether governments are capable of managing the…
  • Transforming International Aid (with Brandon Lee and Dorothy Eng) · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 29International assistance and aid can help bring people out of poverty, build peace and security, and drive economic prosperity. For Canada, it's also a major source of its soft…
  • The Digital Nation State (with Dr. Alexis Wichowski) · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 28As much as we talk on this podcast about transforming and modernizing governments and bureaucracies, we can’t ignore the role of the private sector which is often working in very…
  • Trust is Everything (with Andres Raieste) · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 27Trust is everything. It’s clear we’re in a moment in time where people do not trust their governments. There is skepticism about the impact of big technology companies, concerns…
  • Welcome to Estonia (with Liisa-Ly Pakosta, Ville Sirviö, and Siim Sikkut) · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 26Follow the digital government space long enough and you will hear about Estonia. Despite being a small country of 1.4 million people with an overall economy that by total size is…
  • The Radical How (with Anna Hirschfeld and Alex MacEachern) · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 25Canada has fallen from 3rd in the 2010 UN e-gov rankings to 47 in 2024. We’re stuck when it comes to modernizing government for the digital era. But our guests this week…
  • What I Wish My Boss Knew About Digital · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 24Live on location from the FWD50 conference! In the most recent United Nations e-government rankings Canada has dropped from a high of #3 in 2010 down to #47. We are stalled out…
  • The Hard Yards (with Natasha Clarke) · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 23Season 3 premiere! For those of us in the digital transformation and government modernization space, we are feeling tired and burnt out. We heard a lot about this last season…
  • Let's Think Digital Season 3 · 2 min · Season 3Let's Think Digital is back for Season Three!  We've heard from experts and leaders in digital modernization about how new technologies have the potential to redefine the way…
  • In Conversation with the Minister of Citizens' Services, Terry Beech · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 22(Help shape the future of this podcast! Take our Season 2 listener survey at LetsThinkDigital.ca) If there’s a running theme this season on the podcast, it’s about how we seem to…
  • The End of the Ontario Digital Service and What it Means · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 21A few weeks ago, I got a late night message on our team’s Slack that made me do a double-take and was - to be frank - a real shock. It was a link to a Reddit thread that was…
  • Everything You Should Know About AI (but were afraid to ask) · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 20It's only been a year since our last episode on artificial intelligence, but already a lot has changed. It seems like Generative AI is everywhere and everyone, including…
  • Speakers' Corner at FWD50 (with Alistair Croll and Rebecca Croll) · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 19If you haven’t heard of FWD50, you should! It’s one of the premiere conferences on digital modernization in government and exists to help answer one vital question: How do we use…
  • Open Source Government (with Aaron Snow) · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 18It’s fair to say that most governments don’t choose to use open source by default. Despite efforts over the past two decades to make open source solutions a viable, or even…
  • Building Political Support for Digital Government (with Senator Colin Deacon) · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 17We want government to be innovative and not be left behind in the digital revolution. But this comes up against the reality of the structures, incentives, and culture of most…
  • Building the Digital City (with Jacqueline Lu and John Houweling) · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 16As digital technologies become increasingly embedded in the fabric of the built environment, there are real questions about whether our cities, where 8 out of 10 North Americans…
  • Stepping Up to the Digital Challenge (with Hillary Hartley) · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 15You've probably seen any number of stories about how some founder in Silicon Valley says their startup can tackle a big societal problem better and cheaper than the public sector…

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