The Government of Canada must embrace new methods and tools to improve how it designs, builds, and delivers services.

The Canadian Digital Service (CDS) is bringing together the skills and expertise needed to accelerate this change.

What we do

We are focused on delivery: helping government design and build better services.

We are partnering to...

deliver solutions
build capacity
provide advice

We are agile and iterate based on user feedback. We learn by doing.

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Digital isn't just about building apps, or using the latest technology. It's about putting people first, by designing services that are focused on what users need.

We're about making it faster, simpler, and easier, to access government services online.

We are bringing together top talent from inside and outside of government that includes developers, designers, data scientists and user experience researchers. We're partnering with departments to solve problems, in order to make services better.

We're working in the open, using agile methods and constantly iterating, while relentlessly focusing on user needs.

CDS is not about IT. It's about service. User centric government services. It's about recognizing services need to be at the centre of our priorities as a government. Our relevance to citizens is in jeopardy if we can't deliver digital services.

We are learning from digital government movements across the globe, and working with the digital community across Canada, to shape a Canadian Digital Service.

Together, we can deliver world-class services that are simple and easy to use. It's what Canadians expect. Open. Agile. And focused on delivery. We are the Canadian Digital Service.

Our team

We are a building a team with diverse skills and backgrounds, and we’re recruiting! Learn more about our team: about the designers, developers, UX researchers, policy hackers, data specialists, and communicators who make up CDS.

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Informed by similar initiatives in the U.S. (the U.S. Digital Service/18F) and the United Kingdom (the Government Digital Service), the Government will adopt new ways of serving Canadians. Better use of digital technologies could improve the ways in which businesses can access government services, speed up immigration processing times through better-integrated information, or make it easier for Canadians to access benefits or tax information online.

Featured blog posts

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June 12, 2018

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May 16, 2018

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April 25, 2018
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