December 5, 2022 - Updates, priorities of the week

Back to GC Web Priorities Meetings - Réunions des Priorités Web du GC

Meeting information

Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action items

Digital Transformation Office (DTO)

• Blog post and research summary coming out soon about Wayfinding project, outlining the approach we’re taking for making Canada.ca navigation changes

COVID

• May have two possible authorizations this week for boosters, have National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommendations for this which are tentatively planned for December 9

• Winding down reporting for small and medium businesses
  • Shoppers Drug Mart is no longer distributing test kits to them, working on plans to wind down distribution for the provinces as well

MPOX/Ebola

• MPOX is the new name for Monkey pox and the banners are being renamed on various pages, also working on public-facing web content

• Preventing respiratory virus pages being worked on

• Survey on vaccination and pregnancy will be released soon

• Ebola disease caused by the Sudan virus is in the works and hoping to go live with that soon

• Water monitoring pages being worked on with Health Canada and Environment Canada, critical path is being developed

• Updating Mental Health Kit to streamline and optimize content

Principal Publisher

• Accessibility plans have gone live for ESDC, Canadian Heritage has also launched their plan, curious who else has launched theirs

Benefits and Jobs - ESDC

• Launched the Accessibility plan on December 1

• Added the dental benefits to the Benefits finder and Family and caregiving benefits topic page

General discussion

• Discussion about how different departments are approaching Return to the Office for fully digital teams - many departments are finding that working in and recruiting for digital roles works better with a primarily remote work arrangement

Wednesday meeting

• Veterans Affairs will present on Remembrance Day and lessons learned