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=== '''Background''' ===

=== '''Background''' ===

Employees across the Government of Canada (GC) are increasingly adopting instant messaging tools to conduct business, including but not limited to BBM Enterprise, Slack, WhatsApp, GCmessage and Microsoft Teams. The high user adoption of these platforms reflects ease of use and increasingly broader functional offerings from service providers.  

Employees across the Government of Canada (GC) are increasingly adopting instant messaging tools to conduct business, including but not limited to BBM Enterprise, Slack, WhatsApp, GCmessage and Microsoft Teams. The high user adoption of these platforms reflects ease of use and increasingly broader functional offerings from service providers.  

* conform to GC policies; and,  

* conform to GC policies; and,  

* allow public servants to communicate with each other and relevant GC or external stakeholders on any device.  

* allow public servants to communicate with each other and relevant GC or external stakeholders on any device.  

The instant messaging pilot was branded GCmessage, operated on a self-hosted version of the open-source Rocket.Chat application and ran from April 2018 to April 2019, followed by an evaluation period.  

The instant messaging pilot was branded [[GCmessage]], operated on a self-hosted version of the open-source Rocket.Chat application and ran from April 2018 to April 2019, followed by an evaluation period.  

As an open-source project, the development of GCmessage occurred in the open on GitHub.

As an open-source project, the development of GCmessage occurred in the open on GitHub.