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<center><div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 150%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''The Square is a self-sustaining (digital) learning community led by people like you.'''</div></center>
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<center><div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 300%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''About Square'''</div></center>
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<center><div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 125%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;The Square will bring together the best learning and knowledge available by engaging communities, partners, and fellow learners.</div></center>
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<center><div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 125%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;The shared resources will inform and inspire '''Canada’s Digital Academy'''.</div></center>
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 115%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''1. Add Your Resources''' </div>
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Check out a learning stream and you’ll find practices and skills with an accompanying evergreen list of resources curated by both learners and experts in their fields.
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You’re welcome to include any and all resources (by clicking "edit" on the navigation bar), including and not limited to:
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*Experts (researchers, professors, practitioners<br>
:Create, add to, or experience a Learning Playlist, a list of free online resources, including articles, videos and online courses, curated by experts in their respective fields. It’s your turn to add new content and help identify new areas of interest in the digital field. [[The_Square | Find, contribute, or create learning playlists on GCcollab Wiki]].
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*Online courses<br>
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*Applications<br>
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*Academic & research articles<br>
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While you’re adding your resources, read, play, and listen to others shared by the community.
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 115%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''3. Contribute to Digital Academy'''</div>
Peer-to-peer learning is facilitated through GCcollab’s Career Marketplace. You control your learning experience: they can occur offline or online between 2 or more individuals within a defined period. [https://gccollab.ca/missions/main GCcollab's Career Marketplace Find or create your own peer-to-peer opportunity] (listed as a “skill-sharing” opportunity) [https://gccollab.ca/missions/main on GCcollab’s Career Marketplace].
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Resources and comments will inspire programs, events, and practices of '''Canada’s Digital Academy'''.
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In each learning playlist, you will find links to groups on GCcollab where discussions on digital are already taking place. [https://gccollab.ca/groups/profile/155003/digital-academy-academie-numerique%7C Get involved in groups on GCcollab].
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 175%; color:navy; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''What's Digital Academy?'''</div>
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Hosted by the Canada School of Public Service, Canada’s Digital Academy will help develop digital acumen, skills and capacity across the federal public service and other jurisdictions, and ultimately, empower public servants to work more nimbly in a digitally enabled environment.
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The Academy’s starting components will include:<br>
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*'''Digital foundations''', a suite of online and event-based learning<br>
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*'''Applied digital solutions for leaders''' to build a deeper digital lens into programs, policies, and services<br>
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*'''Digital for senior leaders''' focusing on trends, strategy, and governance<br>
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*'''Premium streams for specialist learning''' (Core Skills, Data, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development & Automation, Design, and Disruption)
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The Digital Academy is collaborative in nature and open by default. It will gather collaborators from various levels of government, the private sector, the non-profit sector, and diverse communities; each contributing their own strengths, knowledge, experience and expertise to improve the public service and government services through digital.
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For example, the Academy will work with the Canadian Digital Service, the UK Government Digital Service, the Ontario Digital Service, the Nova Scotia Digital Service, Bayview Yards and the Institute of Governance.
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If you’re interested in partnering, you must to have a genuine focus on the public good and be okay with an open approach. We’ll share all of the research and resources we create or collect back out publicly.
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<br>Contact [mailto:kent.aitken@canada.ca Kent Aitken] to start a conversation.
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=== Designers ===
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* [https://gccollab.ca/profile/Ashleyevans Ashley Evans]<br>
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* [https://gccollab.ca/profile/Jeffrey.Outram Jeff Outram]<br>
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* [https://gccollab.ca/profile/Pierre.Luc.Pilon Pierre-Luc Pilon]<br>
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* Square claims no ownership of the provided content.<br>
* The Square is not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided.<br>
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* Square does not endorse any websites, products, organizations, activities, or authors that may be provided.
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* Contributors should make efforts to seek content in both English and French.<br>