Strategic plans, policies, standards and guidelines related to government digital services
Strategic plans
- Canada’s Digital Ambition
- Government of Canada Cloud Strategy: 2024 update
- 2023–2026 Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service
- Government of Canada Enterprise Architecture Framework
- Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA)
- SSC 3.0: An Enterprise Approach
- Government of Canada Digital Talent Strategy
- Important Announcements related to the Policy on Service and Digital
Policies and directives
Standards and mandatory procedures
- Government of Canada Digital Standards
- Examples of Acceptable Network and Device Use (Appendix A Directive on Service and Digital)
- Examples of Unacceptable Network and Device Use (Appendix B Directive on Service and Digital)
- Mandatory Procedures for Privacy and Monitoring of Network and Device Use Information Notices (Appendix C Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Information Technology User and Workpoint Profiles (Appendix D Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Information Technology Provisions (Appendix E Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Enterprise Information Technology Service Usage Restrictions (Appendix F Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Enterprise Information Technology Service Common Configurations (Appendix G Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on At-Risk Information Technology (Appendix H Directive on Service and Digital)
- Interim Standard on Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions (Appendix I Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Systems that Manage Information and Data (Appendix J Directive on Service and Digital)
- Data Reference Standards (Appendix K Directive on Service and Digital)
- Standard on Managing Metadata (Appendix L Directive on Service and Digital)
- Mandatory Procedures on Digital Talent (Appendix Directive on Digital Talent)
- Standard on Geospatial Data
- Standards on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Standard on Web Accessibility
- Standard on Web Interoperability
- Standard on Web Usability
- Standard on Optimizing Web Sites and Applications for Mobile Devices
- TBITS 12: Codes for the Representation of Currencies and Funds – Implementation Criteria
- TBITS 36: All-Numeric Representation of Dates and Times – Implementation Criteria
Guidelines and guides
- Application Hosting Policy Implementation Notice
- Application Programming Interface (API) Scoping and Design Primer
- Application Programming Interface (API) Security Best Practices Primer
- Contract First Application Programming Interface (API) Development Primer
- Guide on the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Guidance for Application Programming Interface (API) Gateways
- Guidance for Asynchronous Messaging
- Guidance on Developing Application Programming Interfaces (API) Supporting Voice Assistance Applications
- Guideline for Employees of the Government of Canada: Information Management (IM) Basics
- Guideline on Service and Digital
- Guideline on Making Information Technology Usable by All
- Service and Digital Target Enterprise Architecture Whitepaper
- Government of Canada right cloud selection guidance
- Government of Canada cloud security risk management approach and procedures
- Government of Canada Security Control Profile for Cloud-based GC Services
- Government of Canada White Paper: Data Sovereignty and Public Cloud
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Network Equipment Procurement Guideline
- Open Government Guidebook
- Patch Management Guidance
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