Feds move to improve digital services under new internal group

OTTAWA – The federal government on Tuesday unveiled the new Canadian Digital Service, a group tasked with improving the design and delivery of the government’s online services.A blog post by Treasury Board of Canada president Scott Brison warned that the new measures “will require disruption as we make the switch, both technically and culturally, to agile digital delivery models”, but added that “agile digital government requires taking risks.”“We need to challenge assumptions, think experimentally, and constantly measure ourselves against that end goal: better service to Canadians”, continues the post. “No doubt we’ll make mistakes, but we will make them at the alpha...