Digital responsibility
Digital responsibility
Use digital tools safely and ethically.
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Why digital responsibility matters to you
No matter your role, acting responsibly in digital spaces helps protect information, build trust and support ethical service delivery. Your actions impact security, service quality and public confidence.
With digital responsibility, you can:
- use digital tools with integrity and accountability
- protect sensitive information and ensure fair decision-making
- support a safe and respectful online environment
- manage digital resources wisely to reduce waste and environmental impact
How you can demonstrate digital responsibility
You can demonstrate digital responsibility through specific actions that reflect ethical, transparent and accountable behaviour while fostering a safe and sustainable digital work environment. Examples of how to demonstrate digital responsibility include the following.
- Autonomy
- Use generative AI to assist your work while maintaining accountability for outputs
- Accountability
- Meet commitments and acknowledge the consequences of your actions
- Transparency
- Share information openly to ensure access to information
- Integrity
- Align actions with public sector values and ethics to build trust
- Ethical reasoning
- Evaluate digital actions to ensure responsible conduct
- Safety
- Follow laws and policies to ensure safe digital practices
- Supporting others
- Share strategies and lessons to improve collective competency
- Maintaining safe environments
- Build respectful online relationships for constructive interactions
- Service orientation
- Focus on meeting user and organizational needs through effective tools
- Sustainability
- Manage digital tools and practices to reduce waste and energy use
How you can help
This is a work in progress, and we will continue to improve on it based on your feedback.
Share your thoughts and suggestions by email: icommunity-icollectivite@tbs-sct.gc.ca