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<div style="line-height: 3em; font-size: 250%; text-indent: 8%; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;'''A Week of Collaboration in Washington, DC'''</div>

<div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 125%; text-indent: 14%;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;[https://gccollab.ca/profile/Heather.Laird/ Heather Laird] / Strategic Partnerships Team / June 27th 2018</div>

<div style="line-height: 2em; font-size: 125%; text-indent: 14%;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;[https://gccollab.ca/profile/Heather.Laird/ Heather Laird] / Strategic Partnerships Team / June 27, 2018</div>

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'''<span style="color:#545454; font-size:125%">On May 15, the United States Digital Service hosted its counterparts from the North: the Digital Collaboration Division of the Government of Canada.</span>'''

'''<span style="color:#545454; font-size:125%">On May 15, the United States Digital Service hosted its counterparts from the North: the Digital Collaboration Division of the Government of Canada.</span>'''</div>

 

These public servants are creating a single collaborative public service and encouraging new ways of working in an open, transparent, digital environment. Heather Laird and Christopher Allison came to visit USDS Headquarters and discussed their work focused on creating an Open & Accessible Digital Workspace, a collaboration tool for teams with government records retention compliance and multilingual support baked-in. USDSers queried our visitors on their use of APIs and on the broader efforts involved with behavior change work around technology adoption in government.

These public servants are creating a single collaborative public service and encouraging new ways of working in an open, transparent, digital environment. Heather Laird and Christopher Allison came to visit USDS Headquarters and discussed their work focused on creating an Open & Accessible Digital Workspace, a collaboration tool for teams with government records retention compliance and multilingual support baked-in. USDSers queried our visitors on their use of APIs and on the broader efforts involved with behavior change work around technology adoption in government.

 

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<br>Even as long standing allies and friends with many shared values and priorities, service delivery in the US and Canada each have their own distinct issues, our discussion yielded insights into the parallels of our work.

Even as long standing allies and friends with many shared values and priorities, service delivery in the US and Canada each have their own distinct issues, our discussion yielded insights into the parallels of our work.

 

===                            '''Tools for the win''.'''''<nowiki/>'' '' ===

'''<span style='color:#545454; font-size:125%'>Tools for the Win!</span>'''

The people we serve may be different, but the tools needed to help public servants get great work done are often the same. The need for surveys and consultation tools, instant messaging and team chat, space for ad hoc, cross-team working groups, or document sharing that meets government standards seems more or less universal. Commercial tools do a lot, but open source tools can be tweaked on the fly to meet the regs & legs of governments in charge.

The people we serve may be different, but the tools needed to help public servants get great work done are often the same. The need for surveys and consultation tools, instant messaging and team chat, space for ad hoc, cross-team working groups, or document sharing that meets government standards seems more or less universal. Commercial tools do a lot, but open source tools can be tweaked on the fly to meet the regs & legs of governments in charge.