Civic Hacknight #496: Building Trust – How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada
Hosted by
Civic Tech Toronto
Online
Link available to attendees
Ready to join in on the fun?
Topic:
Building Trust – How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada
Cherlene Tey, Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, shares how strong national digital governance standards build public trust by ensuring transparency and accountability.
She will highlight key use cases that show how these standards protect vulnerable populations and explain how you can play a crucial role in shaping them in Canada.
Speaker:
Cherlene Tay is Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, a Canadian Standards Development Organisation accredited by the Standards Council of Canada to publish national digital governance standards.
Throughout her past 8 years of working at the Council and consulting at KPMG, she has provided governance, risk management and compliance expertise to government bodies, regulatory agencies, and not-for-profit organizations.
She has led numerous consultations with subject matter experts to develop National Standards of Canada on artificial intelligence ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, as well as age assurance technologies.
She also manages the operationalization of the Council’s Validation and Verification program which audits and reviews organizations against digital governance standards.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Civic Hacknight #496: Building Trust – How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada
Hosted by
Civic Tech Toronto
Online
Link available to attendees
Topic:
Building Trust – How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada
Cherlene Tey, Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, shares how strong national digital governance standards build public trust by ensuring transparency and accountability.
She will highlight key use cases that show how these standards protect vulnerable populations and explain how you can play a crucial role in shaping them in Canada.
Speaker:
Cherlene Tay is Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, a Canadian Standards Development Organisation accredited by the Standards Council of Canada to publish national digital governance standards.
Throughout her past 8 years of working at the Council and consulting at KPMG, she has provided governance, risk management and compliance expertise to government bodies, regulatory agencies, and not-for-profit organizations.
She has led numerous consultations with subject matter experts to develop National Standards of Canada on artificial intelligence ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, as well as age assurance technologies.
She also manages the operationalization of the Council’s Validation and Verification program which audits and reviews organizations against digital governance standards.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
Get in touch!
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