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Ryan Androsoff
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The Functional Government Podcast
Making Digital Functional with Ryan Androsoff
It's easy to criticize government, but making public services functional is hard. Nobody set out to build cumbersome, confusing processes. Bureaucracy happened for what were, at the time, good reasons. But they became gradually, inexorably complex. Why haven't other countries fallen into this trap? To help me understand how we got here—and how to move forward—I sit down with Ryan Androsoff. His Think Digital podcast has chronicled Canada's service modernization for years. A founding member of the Canadian Digital Service and graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School, Ryan knows that building functional government is hard, not because of tech...
2025-10-24
44 min
The Futurist
Ryan Androsoff about How Governments Can Become Progressive & innovative
Governments around the world are navigating an era of unprecedented technological transformation, and at the 2023 World Government Summit, Ryan Androsoff shared powerful insights on how the public sector can become more agile, innovative, and citizen-centered. As the founder of Think Digital and a long-time advocate for digital transformation in government, Ryan draws on decades of experience working with the Canadian federal government, international organizations like the OECD, and consulting with governments globally.In this conversation with Ian Khan, Ryan highlights a critical issue many governments face: they speak the language of innovation—terms like “agile,” “user-centered,” and “digital-firs...
2025-05-12
11 min
Let's Think Digital
Let's Keep Thinking Digital
This is the final episode of the Let's Think Digital podcast in its current form. I've been thinking a lot about transitions recently. Last month, I had the honour of being asked to serve as Vice President of Learning and Leadership at the Institute of Governance. The IOG is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization that I’ve worked with for a number of years that does important work to advance good public governance. Its mission is needed now more than ever as governments are under increased expectations to modernize and evolve to meet the moment. I'm excited to ta...
2025-03-03
24 min
The GovMaker Podcast
Navigating the In & Out of Government with Ryan Androsoff
In this first episode of the GovMaker Podcast Season 2, hosts Nick Scott and Jason Pearman engage in a deep conversation with Ryan Androsoff, a digital government expert and CEO of ThinkDigital. They explore Ryan's journey into public sector innovation, the challenges of government bureaucracy, and the importance of user-centric design in government services. Ryan shares insights on building the Canadian Digital Service, the impact of previous initiatives, and offers advice for future public sector innovators. The discussion also touches on Ryan's vision for the future of government and concludes with rapid-fire questions that reveal his thoughts on government, technology...
2024-10-02
1h 27
The GovMaker Podcast
Navigating the In & Out of Government with Ryan Androsoff
In this first episode of the GovMaker Podcast Season 2, hosts Nick Scott and Jason Pearman engage in a deep conversation with Ryan Androsoff, a digital government expert and CEO of ThinkDigital. They explore Ryan's journey into public sector innovation, the challenges of government bureaucracy, and the importance of user-centric design in government services. Ryan shares insights on building the Canadian Digital Service, the impact of previous initiatives, and offers advice for future public sector innovators. The discussion also touches on Ryan's vision for the future of government and concludes with rapid-fire questions that reveal his thoughts on government, technology...
2024-10-02
1h 27
Let's Think Digital
Welcome to the Metaverse
Everyone is talking about the metaverse, but what is it actually, and what does it mean for digital government and the public sphere? How is it different from the promises of virtual reality made in the 1990s? In this episode, host Ryan Androsoff talks to Jen Schellinck, an expert in data science and artificial intelligence, and Meghan Hellstern, a user experience and human-centered design specialist to break through the hype.Read more about how Ryan, Meghan, and Jen have been using Virtual Reality in the Digital Executive Leadership Program that they run with the Institute on Governance.
2023-02-10
54 min
Let's Think Digital
Dude, Where's My Digital Government?
Over the last 30 years, technology has been promised to transform government and public services. But the reality hasn't always matched the promise. Why is that? On our very first episode of Let's Think Digital, we unpack what is going on, and how we might use the "Pac-Man" model to drive digital transformation.Joining host Ryan Androsoff, are Dorothy Eng, Executive Director of Code for Canada, Winter Fedyk, CEO of Silo Strategy, and Luke Simcoe, a change management and communications expert.Read more about Think Digital's "Pac-Man" model of digital transformation.Cold Open Source: Cl...
2023-02-10
50 min
Let's Think Digital
Introducing Let's Think Digital
Let’s Think Digital is a new podcast about what it takes to use digital technologies to transform our world to improve peoples’ lives. Hosted by Ryan Androsoff, Founder of Think Digital, and an incredible community of digital innovators from all walks of life, this podcast goes beyond the hype of founder culture. Our focus isn’t just user counts, funding rounds and quarterly profits. Instead we’re going to talk about why systems resist change, and how transformation is just as much about people and culture as it is about tech stacks.You’ll hear a wid...
2022-12-12
02 min
Stories from the Open Gov
ep15 - Ryan Androsoff: The New Government Landscape
Ryan Androsoff is the director for the Digital Leadership Program at the Institute on Governance and the Co-Founder of the Canadian Digital Service. Today he will give us a cursory look at how Covid-19 has affected the government, and how it will change it Ryan Androsoff Twitter account https://twitter.com/RyanAndrosoff Richard Pietro Twitter account https://twitter.com/richardpietro ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner...
2020-04-01
48 min
Government Gone Digital
Episode 62 - Digital Literacy & Government
It’s no longer just the IT department that must embrace the digital era we live in. Every public servant should have a basic understanding of digital tools so that we can evolve government in the way and at the pace the world around us is evolving. Join us as we talk to Ryan Androsoff, director of digital leadership at the Institute on Governance to learn more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2019-03-27
00 min