BRIEFINGS — ESSAYS ON CIVIC TECHNOLOGY
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7 essays on municipal governance, digital sovereignty, and the technology decisions that shape Canadian public services. Download directly. Read offline. Share freely.
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Team Canada
How Canadian municipalities can leverage collective procurement power to negotiate better technology contracts.
The Doormat Question
Why municipal websites are the reconnaissance surface for larger attacks — and what that means for IT governance.
The Extraction Economy
How the consulting-industrial complex extracts value from municipalities without delivering proportionate outcomes.
The Three Streams
A framework for understanding how policy windows open in municipal technology procurement.
Slime Tax
The hidden costs municipalities pay when technology vendors optimize for their own growth instead of public value.
Sovereign G
Digital sovereignty for Canadian municipalities — what it means, why it matters, and how to achieve it.
DRIPA and Municipal Technology
Implementing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in municipal digital services.
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