Skills and Work in the Emerging Digital Public Service: knowledge exchange virtual roundtables 

This knowledge synthesis project will operate during the 2021 calendar year.

Supplemental and parallel to the scoping review, virtual roundtables will be convened by the project team with public service leaders in spring 2021, aimed at illuminating and capturing the tacit knowledge of public servants and others working in this space around the various skills and competencies public service institutions need in order to take up opportunities of the digital era, and what governments are doing in response to the evolving needs of the digital era.

Virtual roundtable will also be convened with post-secondary education (PSE) leaders, focused on questions of how Canada’s PSE institutions are responding to digital-era public sector workplace needs.

All roundtables will be convened prior to the completion of the synthesis report and evidence brief before the end of June.

Beginning in July, the second engagement phase will focus on validation of the findings in the synthesis report and evidence brief and further knowledge mobilization through academic conferences and workshops, and additional virtual roundtables with public sector and academic leaders.

Lastly, the project will move towards its conclusion with the development of additional outputs informed by both the synthesis report and the phase-two virtual roundtables.

These will include a framework identifying digital public service needs, a public service skills development assessment and recommendations, and PSE training assessment and curriculum recommendations.