Amanda Clarke is an assistant professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration. Prior to joining Carleton, Clarke completed a doctorate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scholar, a Clarendon Press scholar, and as a fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is published in Canadian Public Administration, Governance and Policy and Internet and is co-editor of Issues in Canadian Governance. You can find her work at www.aclarke.ca and on Twitter @ae_clarke.

Amanda Clarke's Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures.- Andrea Rounce (Canadian Journal of Political Science) The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands.- Alex Marland (The Hill Times)

• 1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada's Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper's Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index

Amanda Clarke is an assistant professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration. Prior to joining Carleton, Clarke completed a doctorate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scholar, a Clarendon Press scholar, and as a fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is published in Canadian Public Administration, Governance and Policy and Internet and is co-editor of Issues in Canadian Governance. You can find her work at www.aclarke.ca and on Twitter @ae_clarke.

Amanda Clarke's Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures.- Andrea Rounce (Canadian Journal of Political Science) The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands.- Alex Marland (The Hill Times)

• 1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada's Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper's Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index

Amanda Clarke is an assistant professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration. Prior to joining Carleton, Clarke completed a doctorate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scholar, a Clarendon Press scholar, and as a fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is published in Canadian Public Administration, Governance and Policy and Internet and is co-editor of Issues in Canadian Governance. You can find her work at www.aclarke.ca and on Twitter @ae_clarke.

Amanda Clarke's Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures.- Andrea Rounce (Canadian Journal of Political Science) The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands.- Alex Marland (The Hill Times)

• 1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada's Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper's Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index