The Concept of #DayNotes for Derek
Who am I:
Hi, my name is Derek Alton. By day I work in the Digital Enablement Division (DE) of the Government of Canada where we are trying to enable government to become more digital (both in terms of technology and culture). Specifically, my role is strategy and partnerships. This means I try to connect people and ideas within the digital government space to help enable all of us to better build a government for the digital age we live in.
Concept of #DayNotes
Based on concept of #Weeknotes. I highlight the key work I do every day. It serves both as a method to help me focus and keep track of my work and also share with others who might be interested. It’s a practice in open government, transparency and working out loud. As a heads up, they will be short, messy and riddled with grammar mistakes. Though it should go without saying and to be be 100% clear, these are not official communications from the Government of Canada but rather just my own personal notes about what I am doing.
What I do:
My work currently falls into the following buckets:
OneGC is the Government of Canada’s response to rising citizens’ expectations. OneGC supports a vision where citizens can access any government service digitally, using any device on any platform through any partner. This includes enabling citizens to tell government once when a life event has occurred and leveraging third party providers to deliver government services on behalf of the Government of Canada.
DE promotes partnerships between and among federal and non-federal entities to provide high quality, innovative, and responsive technology solutions in support of digital service delivery, as well as manage the governance mechanisms to advance the use of enterprise technologies across the GC to support this OneGC vision.
My role is still being figured out but will likely involve expanding this vision to other levels of government in Canada.
Digital Government Research Project:
The focus of this research project is to:
- Understand the foundations of digital enablement that is what we require for government to function in a digital age.
- Map out the current landscape for each of these pillars
- Highlight potential high impact opportunities for DE to support this work
A key part of this research is a deep dive into the work of digital identity that I put forward as one of the foundations to digital enablement.
I am the lead pen on this research though I hope to work out loud and crowdsource much of this knowledge by also building on the great work of others.
Municipal Innovation Pilot Project (MIPP):
This project has brought together municipalities to identify a common problem, an open source solution and then collectively invest in this solution together. This solution can then possibly become part of the Open Accessible Digital Workspace and therefore help the Government of Canada and many others. The project is focusing on developing a platform to enable the sharing of open source projects developed by Canadian governments at all levels, commonly known as the Open Resource Exchange (active Beta version HERE).
My role is to help coordinate this amazing group of people to help ensure the success and learning of the project.
Team:
This is a bucket for any work that I can do to support the DE team. After all we are a team and therefore I endeavour to support the work of my colleagues.
Other:
This is a catch all bucket for anything that falls outside the topics listed above.
My goal is to complete a key task for each bucket every day, so this will structure my #daynotes moving forward.
