Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/July 7 2020

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1. Introductions - new additions to the group 2. Reopening businesses

• Support for businesses page on Canada.ca
• Federal plain language efforts for reopening guidance

3.Central page for travel restrictions within Canada

• What content/pages exist for each province/territory
• How we can link out from the federal content

• Draft COVID-19 Interprovincial and territorial travel connections content inventory

4. COVID 19 data integration and visualization

• Data integration and visualization(pptx)

5.Round table: initiatives or content launching in the next 2 weeks, forward agenda items

Introductions - new additions to the group

• NWT:Umesh
• NS:Kara McAllister
• PEI: VL Weeks, Beth Doucette
• ON: Marcella Young - TBS, David Tallan, Lauren Sugar, Daivd Cox, Stephanie
• MB:Edward Cormier
• AB: Gene Smith, Sharon
• GC colleagues: PCO/HC/PHAC/PP/TBS
• Sheldon Bauld, Christina Carrigan, Julie Tierney

Updates

• Gerry McGovern task study - will be added to on Slack
• COVID-19 Exposure notification app - working with Ontario
• Financial snapshot tomorrow

• M-R: Covid19 exposure app with the Ontario govt (hopeful by the next mtg to chat more with those folks on what has been done/their plans moving forward)

Reopening businesses

• Support for businesses page on Canada.ca -Short-term plan for Business-DRAFT

• Trying to get a sense of what information businesses are looking for on canada.ca
• Lots of similarities btw business and individuals around financial support
• Two main areas: financial support; guidance and standards
• Deck will be shared on the Wiki by Gil for the rest of the group (link above)
• Main business landing page mirrors other covid19 landing pages for findability and structure
• Ontario was one of the top 50 searches (net new) - assumption is many Ontario businesses looking for information/guidance
• To ensure effectiveness of the business support, we are doing 3 rounds of unmoderated testing; page success widget, daily monitoring of analytics and task success survey

• Federal plain language efforts for reopening guidance DRAFT deck re developing guidance Designing_guidance-DRAFT

Central page for travel restrictions within Canada - Mary Beth

• Interprovincial wiki page created by Mary-Beth
• Links (mini content inventory) to main travel advice from each province
• Main aim is to ensure Canadians understand where they can go (within Canada)
• Celeste: the question of travel also depends on where I reside (i.e. if I’m coming from a place with more cases)
• Christina: Northwest territories - borders are restricted

• Issue with the restrictions is the charter of rights for Canadians to be able to move freely - so we have the restrictions but the ability to enforce them is difficult
• Cannot prohibit them from entering but can manage their travel w/in the province - it’s tricky
• Page that has the most traction is the border entry/exit restrictions
• Would be great to have it in one central page - but even just in the territory it’s been hard to explain only in this jurisdiction

• Aiming to one central page ( many seemed in agreement even though it’s tricky) without duplicating the information
• VL (PEI): The link on the wiki is good for those in the atlantic bubble but not for the rest of Canadians
• Needs some more thinking ( preliminary spreadsheet with what province you are from and to which you’re travelling to - perhaps this could feed into the wizard?)
• Goal: Improve Travellers within Canada section (new page?) for Canadians wanting to take summer vacations:
• Currently: Travellers within Canada
• What content/pages exist for each province/territory:

• What tasks do they have?
• Central page with links - Posted to the wiki: COVID-19 Interprovincial and territorial travel connections

• How we can link out from the federal content

Data visualization - Rob/Michael

1. Main goal is to aggregate data from multiple sources for different audiences and that the data is consistent across all canada.ca
2. Important considerations included audience; data overload for the public and being unable to understand or misinterpret; and urgency and privacy concerns
3. Impact: 152K since launch (in 3 weeks) - the epidemiological and economic research data
4. Key takeaways: solution is repeatable and collaborative nature allowed data to be efficiently published in a timely manner

• Ontario's data visualization: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data
• Alberta's data page: https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm

Round table: initiatives or content launching in the next 2 weeks, forward agenda items

• Forward agenda items:

• Engagement piece from Manitoba - Richard Cormier
• Plain language efforts on guidance - Peter
• Crisis Communications content design checklist: https://design.canada.ca/crisis/content.html