ST . JOHN AMBULANCE CANADA
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to act as a bridge .” To fund its activities , the charity relies on the first activity to fund the latter , as Director of Information Systems and Technology James Williamson explains . “ We sell first aid training , and that is then turned into community service via volunteers and first aid representatives at , for instance , sports venues , conventions , and other outdoor and indoor events . We also give back through therapy dog programs and similar services across the country .” To further support such activities ,
Williamson has helped to institute a
program of digital transformation inside the organization . One of the challenges of operating a national charity , especially in a country as vast as Canada , is ensuring the smooth communication of its constituent parts . “ We are a federated organization where each provincial chapter is its own legal entity , and our national office serves to supply the shared enterprise applications . Right now , they are all hosted at a data center run by a third party , but as part of the digital transformation we are moving to cloud-based services .
SEPTEMBER 2019