Public sector · Winnipeg, MB

Private AI for public bodies in Winnipeg

Winnipeg municipalities, agencies and public bodies work inside Manitoba’s own rules. Digby answers from your documents with the passage attached, keeps stored data in Canada, and runs the models on Canadian-located hardware — so the answer is checkable and the question “where does it go” has a short reply.

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What Manitoba asks of a public body

Manitoba public bodies operate under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which sets out both the public’s right of access and the body’s duty to protect personal information in its care.

Records often serve communities far from the office that holds them, which makes plain-language internal search worth more than it sounds.

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Winnipeg’s public-sector reality

Winnipeg holds the provincial government, the city, school divisions and Crown corporations, many of them serving communities hundreds of kilometres away from the office that writes the policy.

The realistic win is consistency: the same rule applied the same way in Thompson and in Winnipeg, with the source document attached.

What Digby does — and what we do not claim

Digby does not decide access requests, does not apply severances, and does not replace the records schedule. It helps staff find and read; the statutory decision stays with the public body and its delegated officer.

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Policy and bylaw Q&A
staff ask in plain language and get the section that answers it, from the current text rather than a memory of it.
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Access-request support
find the records that respond to a request, and summarise them, with a person deciding what is released and what is severed.
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Briefing preparation
turn a bundle of reports into a short briefing note with the sources attached.
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Plain-language service
rewrite a form or a notice so a resident can understand it, in English or in French.

Where the data lives, and where the models run

Stored data — accounts, conversations, memory and files — sits in Canada, in AWS Canada Central (Montréal). The models that write answers run on NVIDIA GPU hardware located in Canada and operated from Canada. That second part is the one most vendors gloss: storage residency is not the same claim as inference residency, and for a Winnipeg public body the difference is exactly the one a privacy review will ask about.

If the requirement is that nothing leaves infrastructure you control, Digby can be self-hosted with Docker Compose against any OpenAI-compatible model server. That is a different trade — you run it — and it is documented rather than implied.

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A sensible first month for a Winnipeg public body

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Published documents first
start with material that is already public, so nobody debates whether it was allowed.
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One team, one question set
prove it on the five questions a front counter actually gets asked.
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Bring records management in early
the people who own the schedule should shape what goes into a project.

Other Canadian cities

Winnipeg firms and organisations often work across provincial lines, and the statute changes at the border. The same public sector material, set up for the next province over:

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Frequently asked questions

How does FIPPA affect an AI tool at a Manitoba public body?

FIPPA sets the access right and the protection duty together. A tool that helps staff find records for an access request is useful; it does not transfer the body’s decision-making responsibility, and it should not hold personal information outside the body’s control.

Can rural Manitoba sites use the same tool as Winnipeg?

Yes — that is one of the real advantages of a hosted, residency-respecting tool. The same rule is applied the same way regardless of where the office sits, with the source document attached.

What does Digby cost for a Winnipeg public body?

Free to start, billed in Canadian dollars: the entry point is CAD $0 and no account is needed to begin. For larger engagements — more seats, more volume or a dedicated deployment — pricing is set with you rather than listed here, so contact us and a person replies with a written number. Heavier features such as deep research have daily limits.