"This document is a “playbook” for federal departments and agencies and outlines a set of security tasks for consideration when designing and implementing solutions for Government of Canada (GC) information systems in cloud environments."
#GCdigital
Excited for tomorrow's #oneteamgov Ottawa event in beautiful downtown #Ottawa. 🎉🇨🇦
Lets work together to make a strong #publicservice #gcdigital
@waldoj testimony at the inquiry for #Saaqclic is amazing. Watching this should be required to get financial delegations in the government.
#gcdigital
Canada's ranking over time on the United Nations e-government ranking.
Link to the source:
https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/en-us/Data/Country-Information/id/31-Canada/dataYear/2024
Santé Québec IT project derailed by series of mistakes, government audit finds
#gcdigital
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sante-quebec-it-project-derailed-by-series-of-mistakes-audit-9.6977846
“Service design leadership can be the responsibility of one person, or many, but it takes a whole organisation to improve a service over time, and crucially, make sure it stays that way. To be able to have a good services in our organisation, we need service literacy.” Lou Downe, Committing to service design https://good.services/writing/committingtoservicedesign #GCdigital
“The bridge to nowhere: Why your ‘Target Architecture' won’t ever deliver” From Dafydd Vaughan: https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/the-bridge-to-nowhere-why-your-target-architecture-wont-ever-deliver/ #GCdigital
"It was the third kiosk outage affecting Canadian airports in recent weeks. Technical problems — not a cyberattack — put inspection stations offline in late September, leading to backlogs on commercial processing and at some ports of entry, according to the #CBSA
The agency vowed to provide a report to the public safety minister within 30 days.
Another outage was reported on Oct. 2, also affecting border inspection kiosks."
" #RTO mandates aren’t just less flexible—they’re pushing women out of the workforce. Turnover for women under RTO policies is three times higher than for men. Mothers of young children are the hardest hit, with labor force participation dropping 2.8 percentage points—the steepest mid-year decline in more than 40 years. "
How Adobe Scrapped Its Performance Review System And Why It Worked
"Two years after the death of the old annual review, the check-in process is working brilliantly. Morris has found that morale among employees and managers has increased significantly, largely owing to the more frequent feedback."
Premier Legault calls Quebec's #bureaucracy a #straitjacket
Excited for today's #oneteamgovcan event in beautiful downtown #Ottawa. 🎉🇨🇦
Lets work together to make a strong #publicservice #gcdigital
"Some truck drivers entering Ontario weren't able to proceed for as long as 36 hours this week after the #outage affected #CBSA operations. It began Sunday and lasted into Tuesday, with the resulting backlog snarling commercial traffic for days. "
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-trucking-border-delays-cbsa-outage-1.7650690
The Canada Revenue Agency is doing a public consultation on automatic tax filing (which they should have implemented …several decades ago!). Fill it out and let the CRA know that it’s a good idea! https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/corporate/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/transparency-proactive-disclosure-canada-revenue-agency/consultations-engagement-canada-revenue-agency/automatic-tax-filing-consultation.html via @lisafast #cdnpoli #GCdigital
OneTeamGov Canada
We used to have a real #GCDigital / #civictech scene in Ottawa.
Energy, peer help, momentum. Then it faded into calendar invites and muted mics.
I feel like I owe it to try and restart this. This is the first step.
Lean Coffee breakfast style. Small circle, face-to-face, zero slides.
Where: Outside Equator Coffee @ NAC (look for the OneTeamGov table sign).
When: Sept 30th, 08:30–09:30.
RSVP: https://luma.com/zjqrmqo0
"Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services provided by U.S. companies, with most of the money going to Microsoft — and its uses include what it calls “mission-critical” defence applications."
" #SSC has started to engage industry to collect information in order to understand better the capacities of Canadian suppliers to provide GC with a fully sovereign public cloud solution which will include as a minimum but will not be limited to the requirements for Canada’s data to be:
1. processed, transmitted and stored exclusively in Canada; and
2. at all times only under the control of service providers, up to and including their ultimate parent corporations, that are not subject to foreign laws that permit foreign governments to obtain access to Canada’s data without Canada’s prior written consent."
https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/tender-notice/cb-416-17296820
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