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 is currently the Chief Digital and Data Officer and Deputy Minister 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. As the head of the Ontario Digital Service, based within the

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, 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 18F is a digital services agency within the General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government. Their purpose is to deliver digital services ...

, 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

Obama administration Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...

. 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

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

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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