Events
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July 16, 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET). From the GC Data Community: Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to further improve productivity, efficiency and the quality of services the federal government provides to Canadians. To ensure that AI is adopted responsibly, inclusively, and safely, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat is developing an AI strategy for the Government of Canada.
This event will outline the vision, scope, and timeline for the development of the Government of Canada’s AI strategy and how it will improve the delivery of services to Canadians.
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July 10, 1:30 to 3:00 pm (ET). The Review of the 2016 Treasury Board Policy on Results, conducted by the Results Division within the Expenditure Management Sector at Treasury Board Secretariat, is underway with the goal of helping to ensure that the next iteration of the Policy continues to support and advance the delivery of results for Canadians.
This event presents the draft findings of the review of the Policy on Results and how it has contributed to improving the Government of Canada’s approach to results management.
Various dates, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (ET). Immerse yourself in a full day of career development, featuring hands-on activities, insightful discussions, and networking opportunities to shape your future success. Explore your skills, master interview strategies, navigate social media for job hunting, and discover the power of networking.
Various dates, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (ET). By showcasing a sampling of departments, the Federal Youth Network and its partners will guide you on your public service journey. Throughout the summer, join us every Tuesday to hear about cool jobs, common role responsibilities, and bust misconceptions from future leaders in their departments.
Releases
In February 2024 in Ottawa, Blueprint—along with the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy—hosted the Better Evidence Conference.
In this follow-up report, they capture what they heard at the conference, and share a vision—enriched by the conference dialogue—for how policymaking needs to change in the face of growing complexity and delivery challenges for governments. Simply put: we need our policy intentions to translate to policy impact through better outcomes and greater efficiency.
From GC Data Community, Canada School of Public Service: This comprehensive directory enables users to navigate and discover over 580 hyperlinked data-related resources within the GC Data Ecosystem. The resources are organized into categories and subcategories, with each entry accompanied by a concise description. The directory's primary purpose is to provide data practitioners with a centralized, user-friendly space to explore and identify the resources required for their work.
Learning
The Hub provides data-related toolkits and learning resources for public servants across the Government of Canada. These resources are intended to empower employees by providing guidance on the use of data-related tools in addition to upskilling opportunities for data skills.
This site has been created to help address your need for guidance on managing information of business value (IBV) no matter where you’re working. It will also provide you with current, collaborative, practical, and user-friendly resources, tools, and guidance that will help make it easier for you to find, share, and take care of the information and data used by the Government of Canada (GC).
Today's society is changing rapidly. With the growth in new technologies come new attitudes and higher expectations for government. For the Government of Canada to continue to meet these expectations, public servants need to ask themselves, What does service excellence look like in the digital age?
Opportunities to participate
The Community of Practice on Data and Information (CPDI) seeks to optimize the value of data and information as strategic assets by providing a forum for community members to discuss key data and information issues and contribute through policy, advice, research, and professional development. All federal digital, data, and information practitioners at any level are welcome to attend community meetings.
Working group meetings:
Are you passionate about research and data ethics? Do you want to make a significant impact within the federal government by leading a network that promotes and shapes ethical practices? If so, we invite you to apply for a position as Co-Chair for our Research and Data Ethics Community of Practice (CoP). Visit our GCCollab page for more detail and contact Emilie Eve Gravel to express your interest in the position.
The Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) brings together monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) practitioners, artificial intelligence (AI) experts, and data responsibility advocates to learn and collaborate. We focus on responsible, appropriate, and effective applications of NLP (including Generative AI) to address demand-driven, real-world MERL challenges.
Employment opportunities
Closes July 3. Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Closes July 22. Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada.
What caught our attention
The Indigenous Connectivity Institute (ICI) hosted a community-led forum, bringing together Indigenous leaders and allies from the United States and Canada. The forum aimed to empower Indigenous communities to shape their digital future. Key topics included securing Indigenous spectrum rights, developing an Indigenous digital workforce, and establishing digital sovereignty through community-led connectivity models.
To meet people’s needs, and adhere to the regulations set by the Official Languages Act, all Government of Canada (GC) services need to be bilingual, accessible, and secure. The majority of public servants at Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) work in French, as do their clients, so it’s important that experiences with CED services are simple, user-friendly, and adapted to Quebecers’ needs (in English and French). As such, the quality of French in the digital tools CED uses is crucial. Read about how CED is meeting this need.
Apolitical's Leonardo Quattrucci recently spoke to Dr Aaron Maniam, Fellow of Practice and Director, Digital Transformation Education, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, about how governments around the world might approach navigating new technologies like generative AI.
n an era of rapid technological advancement, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the public sector is both an opportunity and a challenge. At the recent DX Summit 2023, Christina Montgomery, Vice President and Chief Privacy and Trust Officer at IBM, shared her insights on AI adoption's ethical, regulatory and societal implications in government.
This report from Toronto Metropolitan University explores the idea that Canada needs to urgently tackle the AI Compute gap to retain and grow our business and talent investments, and improve productivity. (In English only.)
This Apolitical blog post suggests that a structured approach to AI technology implementation is vital to revolutionising government operations. (In English only.)
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