NATALIE: I think it's the critical issue of the day.
The idea of digital is... it spans any
one single department's mandate, any single organization's authority, so
digital gives us the chance to work together.
So we cannot do this if we're not collaborating.
We can't work in a silo anymore, if we are to be that modern digital government.
IMRAAN: It's a team sport here. No one industry's going to solve this by themselves.
I look at something like digital identity, the federal government won't solve this by itself,
the private sector won't solve it by itself, the provinces won't solve it by itself.
So we're best served to work together to fix these problems.
How to do it? I mean this is one of the reasons we engage
so much in social media, try to get our word out there.
And then I look at the way we have partnerships with vendors.
I want that word "partnerships" to be loud and clear.
Not just we're buying something from someone who's selling it and the relationship's done.
I want to see partnerships that last in perpetuity, so we're continuously
working together to evolve.
NATALIE: Yeah, I think by bringing private industry and public sector participants
together is a huge step in that. As Imraan said, this is about enabling,
this is about a partnership. So recognizing that each person brings some part of the
solution to the table, exposing it, being open about it, sharing those lessons learned,
that's how we're gonna get through the problem, is one practical
application at a time. So that's what today was for me.
IMRAAN: Yeah, I'll echo similar comments in that, you know,
the sharing of lessons learned, to me, is the most important thing.
Why repeat the same mistake someone else has made?
And the only way to learn from that is to talk and be open about some of the failures
and successes, so we all continuously improve from that.