Technology Procurement: Shaping Future Public Value

New technologies are raising a wide range of uncharted digital rights and digital governance issues, while also challenging long-established processes, sectoral relationships, and power structures in municipalities. This research brief tackles the long-standing problem of ensuring that technology procurement leads to long-term public value to city governments and residents. It does so by framing technology […]

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Open and Ethical Procurement Guide on Engaging with the Private Sector

This guide is intended for municipal officials responsible for information technology or procurement in Canadian cities. This publication is an integral part of the open procurement approach developed by Open North based on successful experiments conducted by several Canadian cities, including Montreal (Quebec) and Bridgewater (Nova Scotia). The purpose of this guide is to recommend […]

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