Title : Chief Digital Officer Industry : Government

Company : City of Hamilton Location : Ontario , Canada

Cyrus Tehrani is Chief Digital Officer at the City of Hamilton , a role which attracted him due to its unusual specifications . “ They were filling a Chief Digital Officer role and looking to do some creative things . Many cities don ’ t have CDOs yet and the opportunity to help shape the direction of digital transformation was what attracted me to the role . ” Despite the ‘ Digital ’ in his job title , Tehrani ’ s influence extends beyond that domain . “ It ’ s a bit of an odd portfolio in the sense of a CDO per se , where my focus isn ’ t solely on the digital service channel deliveries that the city has .”

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Instead , Tehrani oversees a diverse portfolio based around digital transformation as well as being a champion to promote the digital transformation occurring across the wide range of services the city provides . “ That involves looking at processes both internally and externally . For instance , our digital communication team is in the midst of a project to completely refresh our website , ensuring it ’ s multilingual and in-line with new web standards for those with disabilities .” Other initiatives include corporate partnerships and standing up additional digital services to give people the ability to interact with the city across multimodal channels . “ We ’ ve launched a digital online engagement platform where we can put up projects and have people interact with them and give us feedback on those projects - which has been really great due to COVID and the inherent limitations on in-person engagement activities .” technologymagazine . com