Canadian Digital Achievements Repository
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Turning Digital One Leaf at a Time
There is a vast amount of digital projects being championed by Canadian governments across the country. In light of this, the Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada invited jurisdictions across Canada to share their innovative digital projects. The response was positive and far-reaching, with submissions emerging from federal, provincial and municipal bodies. Considered digital wins, the initiatives have been mapped to the following themes: Blockchain, Digital Economy, Digital Well-Being, Artificial Intelligence/Automation, Digital Identity, Open and Digital Government and Digital Security. Canada appreciates and encourages all digital initiatives assisting its public servants in producing first-rate products and services.
| Government | Level | Title | Initiative Title | Digital Theme | Summary Description | Breadth and Reach | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Government of Canada | Federal | Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch | GC Web Renewal | Open and Digital Government | The GC Web Renewal completed targeted migration and overall improvement work for the web content of 4 government departments. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 2 | Government of Canada | Federal | Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch | Policy and Enablement of IT Project Review and Oversight | Other | Evaluation to address senior managementès need for information on the relevance and performance of oversight and enablement of high-risk, complex IT-enabled projects. | Business Facing |
| 3 | Government of Canada | Federal | Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch | IM/IT Strategic Plan | Other | The IM/IT Strategic Plan sets the information management (IM) and information technology (IT) direction for the Government of Canada and identifies enterprise-wide priorities and key activities for departments. | Business Facing |
| 4 | Government of Canada | Federal | Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch | Cloud Security | Digital Security | Cloud Security initiative supports GC departments and agencies in understanding existing TBS security policy requirements in the context of cloud computing. | Business Facing |
| 5 | Government of Canada | Federal | Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch | Digital Collaboration | Open and Digital Government | Digital collaboration launched new features to facilitate development opportunities for improved employee and student opportunities and integration into government. | Business Facing |
| 6 | Government of Canada | Federal | Statistics Canada | Measurement of Cannabis Statistics | Digital Well-Being / Digital Economy | The Measurement of Cannabis Statistics uses anonymous crowdsourcing application as data collection tool to capture consumption and pricing information. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 7 | Government of Canada | Federal | Statistics Canada | Transition a Low Carbon Economy | Digital Economy | The Transition to a Low Carbon Economy engages in rapid data acquisition, application of data integration and data analytics leading to a horizontal review of the effectiveness of government programs in the Clean Tech sector. | Business Facing |
| 8 | Government of Canada | Federal | Statistics Canada | Canadian Housing Statistics Program | Digital Economy | The Canada Housing Statistics program experiments with new administrative data sources instead of traditional survey-taking methods followed by linking them to Census data using state of the art record linkage techniques respecting privacy controls. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 9 | Government of Canada | Federal | Statistics Canada | Measuring Growth in International Visitors | Artificial Intelligence/Automation | This initiative applies artificial intelligence techniques to new types of data sources to generate expenditures and finer geographic level data on the activities in the tourism sector. | Business Facing |
| 10 | City of Toronto | Municipal | The Enterprise Geospatial Environment | Open and Digital Government | This environment ensures that client divisions as well as outside stakeholders are able to access critical geospatial information in a centralized, maintained service. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 11 | City of Toronto | Municipal | Payment Service Provider - Transition | Digital Economy | This successful and seamless transition occurred from one payment service provider (Global Payments) to another payment service provider (Moneris). | Internal and Business Facing | |
| 12 | City of Toronto | Municipal | Vehicle for Hire | Other | Vehicle for Hire establishes new standards for taxi operation and legalizes Private Transportation Companies (PTCs), such as Uber and their drivers. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 13 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Données Québec | Open and Digital Government | This website contains data and applications aimed at promoting enlightened decision making by all Quebecers and Québec enterprises. It also allows for the development of new ideas for improving government policies. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 14 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Chief Information Office | IGO (for Open GIS Infrastructure) | Open and Digital Government | IGO (for Open GIS Infrastructure) is a Free Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) developed in a joint effort by several Quebec government departements. | Citizen Facing |
| 15 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Orientations en infonuagique | Digital Government | Orientations en infonuagique made changes to regulation of procurement and creatied a cloud broker, with the cloud strategy couvre l'ensemble des organismes publics. | Business Facing |
| 16 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Adoption prochaine de la Stratégie pour une administration publique numérique (APN) | Open and Digital Government | The adoption of digital strategy is for the purpose of providing focus on the person, taking a digital culture and accelerating transformation. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 17 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | Digital New Brunswick (transformation strategy) | Open and Digital Government | This transformation strategy places citizens and businesses in New Brunswick at the centre of everything the provincial government does. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 18 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | Cloud Services Policy | Open and Digital Government | The New Brunswick Government requires departments to consider the use of cloud services when updating or acquiring new IT solutions | Internal | |
| 19 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | Digital ID | Digital Identity | Digital Identity is a single reliable, accurate method for validating proof of New Brunswick citizenship. | Comprehensive | |
| 20 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | MyLabs | Open and Digital Government | Mylabs is a multi-platform mobile application for citizens to view their lab test results online. | Citizen Facing | |
| 21 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | Open Data Portal | Digital Economy | Open Data Portal deals with data sets of high value and operates software as a service (SaaS) | Comprehensive | |
| 22 | Government of New Brunswick | Provincial | Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD) Business architecture | Digital Well-Being | This architecture is a business capability model for early childhood development services. | Comprehensive | |
| 23 | Municipality of Durham | Municipal | Department of Finance | 100% virtualization of ERP and cloud based disaster recovery of Regional Government HCM System | Digital Economy? | This initiative virtualized the entire Enterprise Resource Planning System & Introduced Cloud based disaster recovery capabilities for the Human Capital Management (HCM) components. | Internal |
| 24 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | Linked eAccounts | Open and Digital Government or Digital Economy | Linked eAccounts establishes a convenient link between the CRA’s My Account for individuals and ESDC’s My Service Canada Account (MSCA), to which Canadians can login once to access services within a single secure session. | Citizen Facing |
| 25 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | Direct Deposit and Address Sharing Initiative (DAISI) | Other | DAISI ensures that the process to update client information such as direct deposit banking information and address changes, takes less time, is consistent and less confusing. | Business Facing |
| 26 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | Auto-fill my return | Automation? | The Auto-fill my return service automatically fills in parts of an individual or business tax return making filing online easier. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 27 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | ReFILE | automation? Other? Digital government? | ReFILE is a new CRA service that allows electronic filers to submit adjustments through their certified software | Comprehensive |
| 28 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | UX – My BizApp | digital economy | UX - mobile web application for small business owners and sole proprietors, allowing users to access financial information and perform transactions | Business Facing |
| 29 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | UX – Secure Portals Reengineering | Digital Security | This initiative seeks to modernize the existing secure portals: My Account, My Business Account and represent a client by building a single, improved, user-friendly portal that can support existing and future Agency digital services. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 30 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Revenue Agency PSSDC | Verified.Me | Digital Identity | Verified.me is a pilot project that would allow users to share attributes of their digital identity in a secure environment by obtaining verifiable information from banks, telecommunications and other participating institutions. | Comprehensive |
| 31 | Government of Canada | Federal | Veteran Affairs OSD | Earnings Loss Benefit, and Career Transition Services | Digital Well-being | This initiative is Digital Service Design is designed with the user at the centre of the process and is fully user tested with Veterans. | Citizen Facing |
| 32 | Government of Canada | Federal | Veteran Affairs OSD | ‘Pension for Life’ | digital economy? Well-being? | The Government of Canada is modernizing the financial package that Veterans receive in compensation for their service-related pain and suffering: ‘Pension for Life’ | Citizen Facing |
| 33 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Présence numérique | NA | Deployment of 180 services, digital focused users. | Citizen Facing | |
| 34 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Politique sur le logiciel et le matériel libre | NA | Adoption of a policy and related directives. | Internal | |
| 35 | City of Montreal | Municipal | "Application d'inspection mobile de cadenassage" | NA | A safe process opening and closing of equipment, which is aldo a free solution. | Internal | |
| 36 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur le sourçage | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 37 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur le géospatial | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 38 | City of Montreal | Municipal | "Positionnement sur la livraison des services numériques" | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 39 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur l'infonuagique | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 40 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur la gestion de portefeuille | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 41 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur la sécurité de l'information | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 42 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur l'intelligence d'affaires | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 43 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Positionnement sur les infrastructures | Other | * Principes directeurs * Standardisation | Internal | |
| 44 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Catalogue de standards ouverts | NA | Standardisation, technical criteria obligations, and non-mandatory. | Internal | |
| 45 | City of Montreal | Municipal | "Programme de recherche et développement appliqués en TI" | NA | "* minimum 10 M$ sur trois ans * Sécurité de l'information * Intelligence d'affaires (prédictive et prescriptive) * Intelligence artificielle * Tous les rapports, programmes, algorithmes libérés sous, licences libres" | Internal | |
| 46 | City of Montreal | Municipal | "Standards ouverts pour les objects communicants" | NA | * Projet de R & D avec McGill * Caméras urbaines, radars, etc. * Méthodes optimales de déploiement et de maintenance * Standards de résistance environnementale * architectures des réseaux IdO (IoT) | Internal and Citizen Facing | |
| 47 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Méthodes de vigies de marchés standardisée | NA | * application de standards ouverts * application du principe de neutralité technologique * application du principe d'interopérabilité * application du principe d'interchangeabilité * application positionnement sourçage * contrôle des relations avec les fournisseurs * + de 100 depuis 2016 | Internal | |
| 48 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Matrice d'analyse d'impacts | NA | * matrice d'analyse d'impacts (sécurité) * la matrice est liée à des critères technologiques * la matrice est liée à des clauses contractuelles * la matrice comprend toutes les clauses contractuelles liées aux solutions infonuagiques | Internal | |
| 49 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Politique sur les données ouvertes | NA | NA | Internal and Citizen Facing | |
| 50 | City of Montreal | Municipal | *BROKEN LINK | NA | NA | ||
| 51 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Divulgation des contacts avec les fournisseurs | NA | "* Divulgation des contacts (entrants et sortants) des fournisseurs potentiels en TI avec l'administration * Mesure de transparence (Open Contracting) * Contrôle du lobbyisme" | Citizen Facing | |
| 52 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Programe institutionnel de sensibilisation à la sécurité de l'information | Digital Security | Comprend notamment de capsules de formation en ligne. | Internal | |
| 53 | City of Montreal | Municipal | Réseau wi-fi | NA | * réalisée par un organisme communataire (ZAP) | Citizen Facing | |
| 54 | City of Montreal | Municipal | "Standards ouverts en TI pour l'approvisionnement" | NA | Plus de 300 | Internal | |
| 55 | Government of Alberta | Provincial | "MyAlberta Digital ID and MyAlberta Verify (id.alberta.ca)" | Digital Identity | MyAlberta Digital ID is an enterprise online identity management program that provides secure way for citizens organizations and businesses to access government services online | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 56 | Government of Alberta | Provincial | MyAlberta Evacuation Payment System | Digital Well-being | The system showcases the transformative potential of MyAlberta Verify, which is being leveraged to provide a fast and convenient way to receive evacuation payments during a disaster. | Citizen Facing | |
| 57 | Government of Alberta | Provincial | MyAlberta eServices | Digital Economy | Single secure online market; website provides an easy way to pay for government services online such as FOIP reuqests, fines, Alberta Parks passes, and various events, permits and licenses | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 58 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity | Fichier d’immatriculation des armes à feu | Automation? | With this initiative, the registration of a firearm is done through the registration of prescribed information in a file held in the form of a record. | Internal and Citizen Facing |
| 59 | Government of Quebec | Provincial | Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity | Zone Enterprise | Digital Economy? Other? | La Zone entreprise se veut la porte d’entrée unique des services gouvernementaux transactionnels en ligne. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 60 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | MyHealthNS (Department of Health & Wellness) | Digital Well-being | The goal of the project was to find out what changes can be made to improve TIENET and PowerSchool | Comprehensive | |
| 61 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Ask the User – Education (Joint project between Service Nova Scotia, Internal Services and Education | Other? | The Council to Improve Classroom Conditions has identified the iNSchool software systems TIENET (Technology for Improving Education Network) and PowerSchool as having a major impact on teachers. The goal of the project was to find out what changes can be made to improve TIENET and PowerSchool. | Internal and Citizen Facing | |
| 62 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Innovation Garage (1st in Canada) | Other? | The Garage is a place to bring a problem and have access to people and tools to solve the problem…a place to take something that is broken; a place to tune-up; a place to create new and better. | Internal and Business Facing | |
| 63 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Public Health System (Panorama) – Cloud Service | Digital Well-Being | Built for and by all Canadian jurisdictions and IBM, the system is an Industry Leading Communicable Disease Surveillance and Management System for Public Health Professionals. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 64 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Procurement E-bidding | Digital Economy | E-bidding is a process in which suppliers submit electronic bids to open and/or invitational competitions. | Internal and Business Facing | |
| 65 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Nova Scotia Open Data Portal Enhancement | Open and Digital Government | Program seeks to enhance open data portal and hopes for outcomes to further support transparency and accountability, public engagement, economic growth and create opportunities. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 66 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Nova Scotia Login Service | Digital Identity | The service includes a trusted credential for citizens and next steps include evolving digital identity as a platform, providing higher levels of assurance for identity validation. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 67 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Business Start-up Bundle | Other | The bundle is a digital service designed to make it easier for individuals to understand the requirements to start a business in Nova Scotia and for the process to be easier and clearer. | Citizen and Business Facing | |
| 68 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Heating and Rebate Assistance Program Digital Service | Other | Applied a human centred service design approach to transformation | Citizen Facing | |
| 69 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Open Government supported by Digital Delivery and overhaul of Access and Privacy Services in Nova Scotia | Open and Digital Government | This initiative offers access to information from start to finish though an online portal; Nova Scotia merged the access and privacy services scattered across departments into one corporate unit. | Comprehensive | |
| 70 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Education and Early development | Homework Hub | Open and Digital Government or Other | A technology-based learning resource and service to strengthen the Nova Scotia Mathematics Strategy, to help close the achievement gap, as well as provide homework support for high school mathematics, for both students and parents. | Citizen Facing |
| 71 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Department of Community Services | Disability Support Program (DSP) (Flex Independent Program) | Digital Well-being | The funding through this program provides a participant with the flexibility to create, self-direct and manage their individual support plan based on assessed need. | Citizen Facing |
| 72 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Open Data Contest | Open and Digital Government | In partnership with Dalhousie, the contest invited youth to innovate using data available through the portal. | Citizen Facing |
| 73 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | IT Service Management (Client Self-Service) | Open and Digital Government or Other | online client self-service portal as a new service that allows clients to request --products, services, or report problems--using an online service as another option to calling and emailing. | Business Facing |
| 74 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Service Nova Scotia | Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) Customer Wait Time Improvements | Other | The improvements are meant to reduce the time associated with the care and control of serialized vehicle permits. | Internal and Citizen Facing |
| 75 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | MyPATH | Other | Student Assistance’s Personal Assistance Tracking & History- student portal that offers greater self-service, more information, and which eliminates paper moving in and out of the office. | Internal and Citizen Facing |
| 76 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Case Management Process Framework “CM Framework” | Other | The CM Framework was instrumental in breaking down the siloed approach to case management, achieving a unified and effective approach to managing matters coming before the Board. | Internal |
| 77 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Nova Scotia Works | Digital Economy | The initiative provides a suite of employment services, under one common brand, that would help Nova Scotians understand, prepare for and attach to employment, while helping businesses find, recruit, hire, manage and develop the talent needed to be more productive in a global economy. | Comprehensive |
| 78 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Atlantic Apprenticeship Harmonization Project | Digital Economy? | The goal of the project is to have ten Red Seal trades harmonized throughout the region (by 2017) and to develop a shared Information Technology (IT) system (by 2019). The AAHP is also implementing common policies and processes across the board for consistency in apprenticeship training and certification requirements. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 79 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Shared Apprenticeship Management Solution Project Team | Open and Digital Government or Other | In working together with the five provinces (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) and ESDC, the provinces will be able to receive a new, state-of-the-art system for a fraction of that cost. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 80 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Health and Wellness (DHW) | DHW Redesign Team | Digital Well-being or other | The DHW Redesign Team conducted a review of effective use of resources, an assessment of current state and future capacity needs in new areas such as advanced analytics with a purpose of ensuring the internal focus, functions, resources and structures were aligned to reflect and enable Minister's governance role and core functions. | Internal |
| 81 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Health and Wellness (DHW) | Proof of Concept Project – Data Warehouse | Other | This initiative's team researched leading practice in modern data warehousing and assessed new tools relative to their requirements. | Internal |
| 82 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Category Management (Procurement) | Other | The Government of Nova Scotia Internal Services transformed its organization to a category management approach; a process that relies on cross-functional teamwork to produce procurement outcomes that meet clients’ (IWK and NSHA) needs. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 83 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services and Health and Wellness | Contract Management Framework | Other | The groups championing this initiative developed a Contract Management Framework (CMF) and associated Toolkit. The CMF and toolkit are guideposts, to assist contract management at a high level, that is adaptable to many contract contexts. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 84 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Sysco, HealthPRO, Internal Services, IWK | Nova Scotia Food Program | Other | NSHA and IWK now access contracts with national volume which resulted in cost savings and rebates and did not require ISD to duplicate the work of tendering 100+ contracts. | Internal |
| 85 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Go Paperless- Risk Management | open and digital government? | Move to paperless claims submissions from all government departments and ABC. | Internal |
| 86 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Combined Janitorial Services | Other | To combine the procurement of janitorial services for multiple provincially owned buildings near each other. Janitorial services contracts that were originally tendered for three separate provincially-owned building were tendered in one combined RFP with the option to award to multiple successful proponents. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 87 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Business Relationship Management Program | Other | BRM provides ICT Services with insight around Business Partner departmental priorities and upcoming initiatives. | Internal |
| 88 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Continuous Improvement Committee (CIC) | Other | In place to identify and prioritize concerns, and relevant information-collecting process | Internal |
| 89 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | TeamMate (Electronic Audits at Internal Audit Centre) | Open and Digital Government? | TeamMate is a software that eliminates the barriers associated with paper-filled binders and disconnected electronic files, driving efficiencies into all facets of the internal audit workflow. | Internal |
| 90 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Fraud Management Committee | Other? Could apply to blockchain? | The Nova Scotian Government Identified need for a provincial Fraud Policy, which provides employees with clear direction around fraud prevention and detection practices. | Internal |
| 91 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | IAC- Analytics | Other | IAC is supporting the use of data analytics to interpret and measure business processes and controls, deliver insight and add value to client department | Internal |
| 92 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services, Office of Service Nova Scotia, ICT Services | Identify and Credential Access Management | Digital Identity? | The notion of this initiative is to allow a member of the public (citizen, business) to establish a “login identifier” that can be used to access any government service. The service can be scaled up to provide increasing levels of identity assurance | Comprehensive |
| 93 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Quality Assurance and Improvement Program | Other | This program is a formalized process providing periodic evaluation of the IAC’s conformance with the International Internal Audit Standards and an evaluation of whether the IAC applies the Code of Ethics. | Internal |
| 94 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Internal Audit Staff Development and Training Framework | Digital Economy? | The Government of Nova Scotia's Internal Services developed a framework aimed at maximizing staff competency, knowledge, and consistency with applicable Institute of Internal Auditor Standards. | Internal |
| 95 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Electronic Storage and Retrieval of Financial Transactional Documents | Open and Digital Government or Other | This initiative allows the process of retrieving an individuals' documents to be quicker as all records management is now electronic. | Internal |
| 96 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Flex-Able Work | Open and Digital Government or Other | Flex-Able Work enables all staff using existing technologies and the introduction of portable technology, amending some workplace practices and minor business process changes. | Internal |
| 97 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Procurement Training Plan | Open and Digital Government or Other | The Government of Nova Scotia Internal Services developed a proactive Procurement Training Plan to improve training service and increase buyer and supplier knowledge of procurement processes and opportunities. | Comprehensive |
| 98 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Information Access and Privacy (IAP) Consolidation and implementation of Access to Information Account (on-line submissions) and Disclosure Log | Open and Digital Government | IAP services from across government were consolidated into the Department of Internal Services in an online format increasing transparency and accountability, with a new FOIPOP case management system implemented to support operations | Internal |
| 99 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Internal Services | Remote Payment Processing | Digital Economy | The Payroll Accounting and Tax Compliance grup and the Payment Processing group have enabled their respective teams to initiate and conclude their payment runs from off-site locations using secure connections and VPN accounts. | Internal |
| 100 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Early Mediation of Labour Board Matters | Open and Digital Government | Nova Scotia identified a creative way to bring greater resources, expertise, and options for resolving issues to Nova Scotians who access the Labour Board process, with early indicators suggesting that this approach will serve as an effective means for resolving issues in a timely manner. | Internal and Citizen Facing |
| 101 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Western Valley REN LMI Dashboard | Digital Economy? | The dashboard is structured to present key regional data using population statistics from Census Canada and provides a “data visualization” of the region in terms of labour market and workforce development | Internal and Business Facing |
| 102 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | The Small Business Safety Toolkit | Digital Well-Being | A collaborative process with business and industry to understand, then address the salient needs of small businesses in making their workplaces safer. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 103 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education (LAE), Department of Community Services | Adult High School Co-op Program | Other? | LAE expanded experiential and credit options available to Co-op students at the Adult High schools (AHS) in West Hants and Kings Country. The additions to the program include credits in Food Technology and Food Preparation, and Food and Hospitality, with the intent to add a Food Service component in a future iteration. | Citizen Facing |
| 104 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | LaMPSS for Business | Digital Government | A partnership was formed to undertake a major renovation of LaMPSS, a system that government clients use to apply for, and interact with, provincial government wage subsidy programs. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 105 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Forestry Sector Training Program | Other? Digital Government? Digital Well-being? | There is a need to facilitate greater access to forestry machine operator training programs for forestry contractors and Nova Scotia seeks to mediate this with The START program, which encourages employers to hire Nova Scotians requiring work experience. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 106 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | LEAN Program Review of the Cooperative Education Incentive | Other? | A LEAN Program Review was conducted prior to transitioning into Labour Market Programs Support System (LaMPSS), involving data-driven decision making. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 107 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Education and Early development | Working Differently with Teacher Teams | Open and digital government? | used Google Apps for Education during the design process for the renewed 4-6 curriculum. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 108 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Labour and advanced education | Competency Based Assessment | Other? | A standardized training program that focuses on measuring and making judgments about whether an individual’s actual skills and knowledge can be used in particular work environments. | Internal |
| 109 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency, Nova Scotia Community College, Communications Nova Scotia | Joint Stewardship Initiative | Digital Economy | Improving apprenticship processes and associated programs | Citizen Facing |
| 110 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Department of Community Services | Sexual Violence Strategy | Other? | Innovative and creative public awareness campaign supported receiving international recognition, with online training develioed supporting survivors of sexual violence. | Citizen Facing |
| 111 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Communications Nova Scotia among other departments and stakeholders | Brand Strategy | Digital Economy | A new, visual platform for all print and digital public facing government communications to ensure a consistent brand for government and help the public recognize government programs and services. | Internal |
| 112 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Multiple departments and stakeholders | Mabou Watershed Rehabilitation | Other? | To reduce coliform levels to acceptable levels, the Coastal Resource Coordinator and Agriculture Resource Coordinator instigated a project to rehabilitate the Mabou Watershed and the oyster fisheries it supports. | Comprehensive |
| 113 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Department of Seniors | SHIFT: Nova Scotia’s Action Plan for an Aging Population | Open and Digital Government or Other | A major two-year project to identify how Nova Scotia could build on the opportunities in its older population. | Comprehensive |
| 114 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Department of Business (DoB) | Outcome Agreements with Crown Corporations | Open and Digital Government | DoB was mandated to develop ‘outcomes agreements’ with its five Crown Corporations. A tool was needed to clearly provide the five economic development Crown Corporations with policy-driven outcomes to guide their activities. | Internal and Business Facing |
| 115 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Multiple departments and stakeholders | Nova Scotia Social Enterprise Strategy | Open and Digital Government or Other | Identifies the roles of both government and private sector partners in advancing the Social Enterprise Strategy in the province | Internal and Business Facing |
| 116 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Department of Natural Resources (Head office and regional offices) | Service Delivery Engagement Process | Other | The process seeks to realign and balance mutual program issues and expectations with limited resources and doing so collaboratively engaging province-wide field staff. | Internal |
| 117 | Government of Nova Scotia | Provincial | Fisheries and Aquaculture, in collaboration with other departments and regional offices | Regional Participation in GoverNEXT AGM | Open and Digital Government or Other | Regional Participaton Governext AGM established a committee in 2016 to facilitate and implemented an approach to livestream the GoverNEXT AGM to the region, and this digital resource enabled regional staff to be included in a Halifax-based event from other locations. | Internal |
| 118 | Government of Canada | Federal | Canada Food Inspection Agency | CFSIN | Open and Digital Government or Digital Economy | TheCFSIN technical solution will leverage the GCcollab open source, cloud-based social networking tool as it has been conceived to engage with external non-Government of Canada participants in support of strengthening the ability of Canada's food safety authorities to share data and information. | Comprehensive |
| 119 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Verifiable Organizations Network | Blockchain? | The Verifiable Organizations Network is making use of blockchain/distributed ledger technology designed for identity among other resources to design and deliver an open, unified and trusted network of verifiable organizational data for people and services. | Citizen and Business Facing |
| 120 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | BC Services Card | Digital Identity | BC Services Card is a multi-year project to develop smartcard credential and associated identity information management system. | Citizen Facing |
| 121 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Medical Services Plan (MSP) | Digital Government | The MSP digital experience is a project that enables the public to electronically submit applications for MSP enrolment and MSP premium assistance via Corporate GCPE’s Gov.bc.ca website | Comprehensive |
| 122 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Personalized Digital Services | Digital Economy? Other? | These services allow Government websites and apps to tailor what services are presented to people, and present guided pathways to services, based on what British Columbians decide to share. | Citizen Facing |
| 123 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | BC Developers’ Exchange | Digital Economy (Contains Blockchain and Identity iniatives) | Continuous Service Improvement Lab (CSI Lab) provides continuous improvements to ongoing initiatives in the BC CIO, such as the the design of a digitized service for rapid procurement and contracting of vendor supplied agile teams as well as working proof of concept for blockchain enabled verified digital identity information for registered corporations. | Internal |
| 124 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Defensible Security | Digital Security | Defensible security is a published framework outlining minimum security requirements in an actionable way to achieve compliance level security controls. | Internal |
| 125 | Government of British Columbia | Provincial | Chief Information Office | Salesforce Canadian Public Cloud Data Centre Addendum Execution | Digital Security | This execution enables British Columbian Government to use data-sovereign Salesforce Canadian Cloud, and that the Salesforce data centre is is privacy and security compliament. | Internal |