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I am a 28 year old Senior Policy Analyst with the Canada Border Services Agency working within the strategic policy section on issues that are largely horizontal and national in scope, I have worked with the CBSA in various capacities over the years, as an executive assistant, in risk management, ATIP, and even as a business analyst in the Pacific region.

My educational background is in Mathematics and Statistics, and I'm currently pursuing a degree in Public Administration. I have five years experience in the tech sector working with Hewlett Packard.

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Matched on: transparency, Social media, open government, Government, and CBSA
Matched on: Social media, Government, and digitalOttawa
Matched on: Social media, policy, photography, and Government
Matched on: Social media, policy, open government, open data, and Government
Matched on: Social media, Government, and digitalOttawa

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May 8
All: Session Idea: Promotion of Social Media in Government
"I agree that this is a pretty large subject area. I'm happy to help facilitate if this ends up being a session. I really feel that most agencies/departments that have a client services side can benefit from the broadcast phase of implementation. I think Lija brings up great points about we need discuss the ramifications of two-way communication and what importance the SM based comments wil..."
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May 7
All: Session Idea: Promotion of Social Media in Government
"This session might fit entirely as content within the higher level session held by David Hume http://changecamp-ca.pathable.com/discussions/2416 "
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May 7
All: Session Idea: Promotion of Social Media in Government
"As we start to see more groups at the federal, (maybe provincial), and city level start using Twitter and other social media sites. How do we actively encourage this participation. What is the best business case for getting Agencies and Departments across the PS, as well as provincial and municipal government groups to have their communications departments use Twitter, Facebook, etc. What ar..."
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May 7
All: ChangeLab: OpenStreetMap (possible project)
"I actually think the power of the open street map project comes from the diversity and multitude of sources. The city probably has great authoritative sources as a starting point. But citizens in an area know much more about the specifics than what was last inputted into the city of Ottawa Geomatics software. Getting a committment to post that data would be great (if they don't already, I'm ..."
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May 7
All: ChangeLab: Ottawa calendars (possible project)
"This can really be something. I've looked at the existing work, and I believe the City of Ottawa itself must have a calendar of all these events somewhere for planning purposes etc. That's one central location for the mainstream planned events. Also, as for volunteering to help transform web based calendars into standardised formats for input, I'm up for that. Also, I think that a crowdsour..."
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May 3
All: Session Idea: opening Federal government data
"I think the key points that will come up in discussion will be how to show that open (and freely available) data and FLOSS solutions add value to the current schema. Open data for example, allows the public to review, analyse, mashup, and create tools which (if developed by the governments) would cost a signficant amount. It also allows for connections between data produced by disparate agenc..."
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Apr 27
All: Session Idea: opening Federal government data
"This is a movement I am very interested in. Taking data which is already in a usable format, accessible via Access to Information request, and just going one step further and making it available. For example: historical border wait times You could then mash this up with dates, weather, the economy (especially for economically important crossings like the Ambassador bridge (Detroit/Windsor) an..."

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