ep31 - Jack Mailloux: Details on how the ESDC developed the CERB program

Stories from the Open Gov

Jack Mailloux is the Director General for Enterprise Operations and IT Security for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and has been a long time advocate for Open Government & Open Data. And today Jack will tell us the backstory on what the people at the ESDC went through in order to launch the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program (CERB) - atleast from an Enterprise IT perspective. NOTES: As of June 20, 2020 CERB has processed over 8 million unique applicants, close to 16 Million applications in total since inception, and distributed over 43 Billion Dollars to Canadians in need. Jack Mailloux Twitter account https://twitter.com/IamJackMailloux Richard Pietro Twitter account 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 for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/