June 19, 2024 - 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 item

Updates

DTO

• Next Web Executive board meeting is tomorrow:

• AI trust study
• LAC presentation, web and preservation program (will ask if they can come to GCWP as well)
• UX community of practice tomorrow, debrief at the meeting

• Also, some google searches are displaying departments in wrong language, we posted the fix in Slack-GC-comms

Roundtable

Public Safety - PJE Theme

• Anticipate publishing an update to the List of Terrorist Entities today as well as the Authorization Regime program content in coordination with GAC later today

Departments’ priorities for the summer

DTO

• Research on the home page, including life events which could include AI
• AI Trust research launching soon
• Working on UX AI guidance
• Integrating Canda.ca design system with GC Design system
• Working to evolve TSS tool

ECCC

• Focused on carbon-pricing content, big marketing push in the fall, some new content: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html
• Starting internal web community of practice
• Helping strat comms staff to be comfortable with plain language web writing
• ROT exercise

AAFC Julie Edmond

• Short staffed, working on plain language writing
• Questions about homepage
  • about content for different audiences
    • Answer: The template has space in the footer to link to audience specific content
  • Too much info about department, what is essential
    • The template shows what to include
• Working on improving analytics reports

NRCAN

• Working on carbon capture content in partnership with CRA
• Also working on content with ECCC
• Working on tracking emails to audience click through rates
• Looking to improve task completion rates by improving UX, structure etc…
• Migrating from Drupal 7 to 10

DND

• Continue to update our Topic pages to the Beta topic page template
• Working on “Military operations” top task – implement datatable.
• New section – “Working at National Defence” to improve our Civilian jobs top task.
• Trying to figure out roles and responsibilities for Mobile apps within DND.

Health Canada

• Getting rid of redundant pages
• Organize cheat sheets and learning plans focusing on digital literacy to get people working the same way
• Better tagging of content for analytics and to compile things quickly
• Hoping to finalize pdf policy to finally be able to say no to pdfs  

IRCC

• A pain point has always been downloading forms
  • So now we will create a download form for each form with instructions
  • We still use some paper forms, pushing for online forms but many are not ready yet
• Application guides are their own sections of content, creating duplication of content, trying to simplify this
• Content inventory strategy, using structured data
• Doing site audit looking at language, especially quality of French translations

IAAC

• Focused on improving user experience
• Implementing a dashboard to track large projects like hydroelectric dams etc..(this was committed in budget)
• Implementing a subscription system that public can sign up for email updates, we used GCnotify for this

Public Safety - PJE Theme

• Anticipate publishing an update to the List of Terrorist Entities today as well as the Authorization Regime program content in coordination with GAC later today