Hacknight #496

Building Trust: How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada

with Cherlene Tay

Building Trust: How You Can Shape Digital Governance in Canada

Recording

Cherlene Tay, Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, shares how strong national digital governance standards build public trust by ensuring transparency and accountability. She will highlight key use cases that show how these standards protect vulnerable populations and explain how you can play a crucial role in shaping them in Canada.

Speakers

Cherlene Tay

Cherlene Tay is Manager of Validation and Verification at the Digital Governance Council, a Canadian Standards Development Organisation accredited by the Standards Council of Canada to publish national digital governance standards. Throughout her past 8 years of working at the Council and consulting at KPMG, she has provided governance, risk management and compliance expertise to government bodies, regulatory agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. She has led numerous consultations with subject matter experts to develop National Standards of Canada on artificial intelligence ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, as well as age assurance technologies. She also manages the operationalization of the Council’s Validation and Verification program which audits and reviews organizations against digital governance standards.