News-July 2006 - "Exciting Developments"

Dave Wallace, former Chief Technology Officer for the Province of Ontario, has been with Chartwell since September 2005 leading a national program and community of interest for a Pan Canadian Standard for all levels of government, using reference models to standardize an approach to enterprise level business and IT challenges, with the goal of service delivery improvements to citizens.

Reference models are a series of modeling tools and techniques developed and aligned with government for government. The models create a common language and reusable deliverables across programs, services, processes and architectures. Chartwell and all levels of government developed these reference models, beginning in the nineties and placed them in the public domain, where we have continued to lead the development and use at all 3 levels of government

Dave Wallace spoke at the National Enterprise Architecture for e-Government Conference 2006, the 23-24 March, in Aarhus, Denmark, sponsored by The Ministry of Danish Regions. He spoke on Canada’s leadership establishing standards and moving the yardstick for e-government.

Dave and John Bruder, Chartwell’s Regional Director in Ottawa presented to a sub-set of the Public Sector CIO Council meeting in Victoria on February 9th & 10th. The approach was well received and further discussions and awareness continue. Dave Wallace and Gary Doucet, Chief Architect from TBS also led a session at Lac Carling this year, on the emerging Community of Practice they have been developing across governments.

In Alberta, April 24-25 better OUTCOMES for Citizens, a 2-day conference attracted 140+ attendees from all levels of government across Canada, focused on Transforming Government: to explore the Pan Canadian framework to synergize efforts across all government jurisdictions. The conference was a great success, the 2nd sponsored by TBS and vendors alike. Toronto Water Patrick Newland and Chartwell partner Sandy McBride co-presented on the City’s success with their water, wastewater transformation, an enterprise transformation that saved $millions of the city’s operational budgets. Other delegates from across government spoke to their successes utilizing the Government of Canada Strategic Reference model. Gary Doucet, Chief Architect from TBS and Dave Wallace , Vice President, Chartwell, co-presented The "Pan Canadian Government Leadership" success factor.

Chartwell and CDI/Polarbear (now Nexient) also presented our consulting/knowledge transfer approach to raising the capabilities in government to work with, understand and utilize these public domain standards.

For more information see www.betteroutcomes.ca. We’ll be sure and give notice when the next conference is scheduled. The next conferences are planned for BC in November and in Ottawa in December.

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