Hillary Hartley is an American technologist and government official who has served in both local and federal government in the US, and in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Hillary Hartley | |
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| Chief Digital and Data Officer, Deputy Minister for Digital Government, Ontario | |
| Assumed office April 2017 | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Residence(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Alma mater | Smith College (BA) |
| Occupation | Technologist, Government Official |
She was the Chief Digital and Data Officer and Deputy Minister for Digital Government, Cabinet Office, for the province of Ontario, the first person to hold this position, taking office in April 2017 until March 2023.[1][2][3][4][5] As the head of the Ontario Digital Service, based within the Treasury Board Secretariat, she is responsible for leading the provincial government's digital transformation efforts and for operationalizing the Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act of 2019.[6][7] As part of her role, she also chairs the government's Digital Government Board.[8]
Prior to her role in Ontario, she was a co-founder and Deputy Executive Director of 18F, a digital services agency within the United States federal government based within the General Services Administration. She had been a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the MyUSA service, and together with a group of former fellows founded 18F in March 2014 under the Obama administration.[9][10][11][12]
She previously worked as Director of Integrated Marketing at government technology vendor NIC, created the first nationwide polling place lookup site MyPollingPlace.com during the 2004 federal election cycle, and earlier in her career worked as a web designer for Arkansas.gov.[13][14]
She has been involved in a variety of community-based events in the government space, including eDemocracyCamp, TranparencyCamp, Gov2.0Camp, and CityCamp. Following the passage of Prop 8 in California, she co-founded Equality Camp, an event to bring technologists together with activists for marriage equality and LGBT rights.[15]
As an early adopter of Twitter, she has used the handle @hillary since 2006, which has caused confusion and attracted misdirected mentions intended for Hillary Clinton.[16]
Personal life and education
editShe holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from Smith College in Massachusetts.
She publicly identifies as gay,[17] and lives with her wife and two children in Toronto, Ontario.
References
edit- ^ "U.S. Digital Response". www.usdigitalresponse.org. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
- ^ "Ontario Names First Chief Digital Officer". news.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "18F's Hillary Hartley Becomes First Chief Digital Officer of Ontario, Canada". GovTech. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ Ferguson, Rob (2017-03-27). "Ontario's new chief digital officer dumps Trump". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Whalen, Julia (Jun 13, 2017). "Checking in with Ontario's first chief digital officer". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ "Ontario: Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 7, Sched. 56". Ontario.ca. 2014-07-24. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "Hillary Hartley: 'We have shifted the pace inside government'". Communitech. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "Ontario hires new Chief Digital Officer | IT World Canada News". www.itworldcanada.com. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "What is 18F?". GovTech. 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ Jeffries, Adrianne (2014-03-21). "The government now has a fast-moving IT office modeled after a startup". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "DC's Top 50 Women In Tech Page 1". FedScoop. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "A conversation with Ontario's Chief Digital Officer, Hillary Hartley". Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "Hillary Hartley". FWD50 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "Computer History Museum - Profile - Hillary Hartley". CHM. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ "Hillary Hartley | Presidential Innovation Fellows". presidentialinnovationfellows.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ^ Chappellet-Lanier, Tajha (2015-04-19). "Not Hillary Clinton: A Case Of Mistaken Twitter Identity". NPR. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "#Gaymafia: Meet the Gay Ladies Taking Over Govtech". SXSW PanelPicker®. Retrieved 2021-12-25.