By Source Canada
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 14:29:00
“We’ve made a very bold statement in Alberta that we want to be North America’s most AI-enabled public service,” says Janak Alford, Deputy Minister of Technology and Innovation for the Government of Alberta. “And that is a reputation I think we’re living up to.”
It’s an ambitious claim from a public service — and that’s exactly the point. Public sector systems hold a tremendous amount of data and information and carry the responsibility of helping people live their lives.
That responsibility can often be a reason given for moving slowly. Alberta has treated it as a reason to move both deliberately and fast. Much of the work involves evolving the legacy applications that underpin major government activities, improving efficiency, effectiveness and speed, without losing what makes them work.
The results have been measurable. “Across multiple teams, we’ve been able to benchmark increasing our speed by as much as 20 times, and reducing our cost…
