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Ryan Androsoff, Director, Digital Leadership Program, Institute on Governance, spoke at Compute Ontario and ORION's Smart Cities Governance Lab on March 28, 2019, in Kitchener Ontario about digital leadership and digital literacy particularly pertaining to government. He explained that technology is being adopted faster than ever, and with applications such as Netflix and Instagram becoming the norm, citizens are left wondering why their government can’t operate as efficiently and transparently as these applications. Ryan presented the idea that in today’s digital government era, every policy issue is now also a digital issue, leading to a need for digital literacy in public sectors employees. While he doesn’t believe every public sector employee needs to be able to write or understand code, a baseline digital literacy, which he refers to as technical intuition, is crucial. This means the ability to understand the limits and possibilities of technology, ask informed questions, and detect when something may sound too good to be true. Ryan concluded that new technologies and digital governance can be difficult to implement. When a digital transformation goes wrong at the government level, such a scale can have a negative impact on an entire society, making technical intuition critical for government employees in all sectors.