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Mélanie Robert (she/her)

Executive Director, Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Melanie Robert, Executive Director, Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat leads the Government of Canada’s efforts to be more open, transparent and accountable and to manage information as effectively as possible. She is also the Open Government Partnership’s Point of Contact for the Government of Canada. On open government, Mélanie coordinates efforts across the federal family, collaboration with provinces and territories ‎ and stakeholder engagement and dialogue on open government. She is also leading efforts to ensure government information is managed as a strategic asset in the service of Canadians so that it is properly safeguarded, easily used and widely shared.

Sessions

Networking

Circlesquare

We surveyed people to find the critical technologies and departments. And we chose these to create four concurrent half-hour discussions, four times over. It’s a choreographed dance of experts, ideas, and disruption. See More.
FWD50 in the Mix

Adapting to a new digital reality: Working in the open to build more resilient democracies

Melanie Robert, in conversation with Rudi Borrman and Joe Powell will aim to highlight a number of concrete approaches that demonstrate how countries around the world are using digital tools to engage their citizens and include them as part of their decision-making processes. See More.