Jul 2nd, 2008 |
I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to work with the GTEC team as we ramp up for the October 2008 Conference. GTEC is the must-attend event for Canadian public sector IT and IM professionals, and as a showcase sponsor it is a great opportunity to meet face to face with clients and hear first hand how technology is directly improving citizen services.
My name is Cheryl McKinnon, Director of Collaborative Content Management with Open Text and over the last 15 years I’ve been privileged to work with Canadian-based software vendors who are passionate about making Canadian public sector successful with content management initiatives. Over the next few months, I’d like to share some of the thoughts, trends and emerging best practices in areas of collaboration, technology as innovation enabler, unique trends in public sector, and what Web 2.0 means for government.
Though I have spent much of my work life in the technology world, my academic background is in Canadian history and have spent many hours knee deep in boxes in our National Archives. We need to take care of our electronic heritage. We need to ensure that we can capture, preserve and protect the right information so future historians understand how we lived and worked in the early years of the 21st century.
