The organization has posted a job for a manager to oversee “initiatives and activities related to Waterfront Toronto’s innovation and intelligent communities’ initiatives, specifically with respect to the digital governance/privacy components. To assist in the management of Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel to help facilitate their guidance on the digital and data governance/privacy components of the waterfront projects.” (The Logic)
Talking point: The job was posted just before Ontario’s auditor general is set to release her value-for-money audit of the tri-governmental agency. Sources tell The Logic that the report is expected to be critical of Waterfront Toronto’s handling of the Sidewalk Toronto partnership with Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs. Waterfront Toronto has faced intense criticism over its managing of data and privacy in the project and the resignations of leading figures.