Media
Think Digital podcast: Speaker’s Corner at FWD50
Denton’s Smart Cities Summit: Data Strategy and Governance, Trends and Implications for Smart Cities, 2023.
O’Kane, Josh: Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy (2022): Page 302.
Ontario.ca: Ontario Appoints Special Advisor on Data Authority (2021)
Council of Canadian Innovators: Special Advisor to Develop Canada’s First Data Authority (2021)
Toronto Star: Sidewalk Labs’ brief presence in Toronto taught us much about privacy and digital governance — two of the thorniest dilemmas facing smart cities (2021)
Blog: On Public Tech Procurement: Digital Payments Edition (2021)
Globe and Mail: Canada Needs a Digital New Deal (Op-ed, November 2020).
Secure Sovereign Identity podcast: Interview regarding public data infrastructure (release forthcoming)
Center for Digital Rights: Beyond Smart Cities TV Interview feat. Shoshana Zuboff, David Skok, Ana Serrano, Natasha Tusikov, Andy Best, Michael Bryant (2020)
TVO: Want a Smart City without a Corporate Master? (2019)
Globe and Mail: Canadian coalition wants to get smart city data and policies right (2019)
Some Thoughts Compendium: Smart cities architecture must put cities first (2019)
Guelph Mercury: On water consumption and civic engagement, City may have found new solutions (2017)
Innovation Guelph: Collaboration builds success with Guelph’s Civic Accelerator (2017)
The Agenda with Steve Paikin - What Can Ontario Learn From Guelph? (Guest, 2016).
Guelph Mercury: City of Guelph pairing with start-ups in hopes of solving complex challenges (2016)
Guelph Tribune: City of Guelph developing new digital tools (2016)
Guelph Mercury: Andy Best is the face of open civic governance in Guelph (2015)
Guelph Politico: Guelph Citizen digs into campaign expenses (2015)
Guelph Mercury: Guelph Civic League has new President (2013)