• Jun 30, 2021
    Stevie-Ray Talbot, Product Management and Policy
    To make better government services, we need to research with users a little and often. Which means we need to create a lot of privacy and consent notices. To help with that, we made a tool that generates quick and compliant notices for researchers in …
  • Jun 9, 2021
    Sana Qureshi, Talent
    When the pandemic hit, many things changed. But what hadn’t changed was how CDS was continuously welcoming new employees to the team. Read how we adapted to this virtual reality to onboard new team members.
  • May 19, 2021
    Idan Itskovich, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
    A colleague from The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) writes about how pausing to reflect on a partnership with CDS helped the team notice positive change in the organization.
  • Apr 7, 2021
    John Kenney, Policy
    Our Exploration service is working with other Government of Canada departments to explore the conditions for digital service delivery. They want to enable departments to introduce digital practices in their work, such as tools, collaboration, and …
  • Mar 25, 2021
    Caitlin Tuba, CDS and Po Tea-Duncan, TBS Cyber Security, Office of the CIO
    In this post we talk about how we tested assumptions before jumping in to solve assumed problems around a process for getting an Authority to Operate (ATO) – and ended up learning some things we wouldn’t have otherwise known!
  • Mar 18, 2021
    Megan Beretta, CDS; Linda McNamara and Shelina Virani-Potvin, Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer
    We’ve talked about how we work in new kinds of team, but we’ve skipped over an important part: how do you build these teams in the first place? In this blog post, we’ve teamed up with the Office of the Chief Human Resource Officer (OCHRO) to answer …