Hillary Hartley is an American technologist and government official who has served in both local and federal government in the US, and in the Canadian province of Ontario. She was the Chief Digital and Data Officer and

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for Digital Government,

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, for the province of

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, the first person to hold this position, taking office in April 2017 until March 2023. As the head of the Ontario Digital Service, based within the Treasury Board Secretariat, she is responsible for leading the provincial government's digital transformation efforts and for operationalizing the ''Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act'' of 2019. As part of her role, she also chairs the government's Digital Government Board. Prior to her role in Ontario, she was a co-founder and Deputy Executive Director of 18F, a digital services agency within the United States federal government based within the

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. She had been a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the MyUSA service, and together with a group of former fellows founded 18F in March 2014 under the

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. She previously worked as Director of Integrated Marketing at government technology vendor

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, created the first nationwide polling place lookup site MyPollingPlace.com during the 2004 federal election cycle, and earlier in her career worked as a web designer for Arkansas.gov. She has been involved in a variety of community-based events in the government space, including eDemocracyCamp, TranparencyCamp, Gov2.0Camp, and CityCamp. Following the passage of Prop 8 in California, she co-founded Equality Camp, an event to bring technologists together with activists for marriage equality and LGBT rights. As an early adopter of

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, she has used the handl
@hillary
since 2006, which has caused confusion and attracted misdirected mentions intended for

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Personal life and education

She holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from

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in Massachusetts. She publicly identifies as gay, and lives with her wife and two children in

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, Ontario.

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