In an Op-Ed for iPolitics, Davide Cargnello and Karl Salgo write about the potential new duties of Canada’s chief information officer within Budget 2018. The government’s CIO will see a shift in responsibilities, but the specifics of what the revamped role will entail are still under wraps. Cargnello and Salgo hope the CIO will move away from simply being an IT-heavy position. “No doubt the toughest challenges of a government CIO often have more to do with institutional behaviours than with technology itself,” the authors write. “While we don’t yet have all the specifics on the government’s changes to the federal CIO role, let’s hope they reflect this reality.”
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