Strategic missions for Canada’s digital economy
DGC organizes its initiatives around a focused set of missions that require executive leadership, cross-sector coordination, standards and practical implementation.
Convene. Coordinate. Codify. Confirm.
Each mission moves from shared problem definition into coordinated initiatives, standards, implementation and verification as the opportunity matures.
A small number of priorities with room for practical action
The missions connect DGC’s Executive Forum, cross-sector initiatives, standards development and assessment capabilities around issues that cannot be solved by one organization or sector alone.
Trusted public and commercial services
Make it easier for people and businesses to prove information once, rely on trusted sources and move securely across public and commercial services.
Digital sovereignty and economic security
Help Canadian organizations understand, govern and reduce dependencies that can shift control over data, operations and strategic capability.
Responsible AI adoption
Give organizations practical standards, skills and assurance pathways to adopt artificial intelligence ethically, safely and effectively.
Cyber resilience
Help Canadian organizations strengthen baseline cybersecurity, reuse evidence across requirements and demonstrate readiness to customers, partners and procuring authorities.
Canada-EU digital cooperation
Create practical pathways for trusted digital credentials, wallets and trust services to work across Canada and the European Union.
National security and defence
Strengthen cyber readiness, trusted supply-chain evidence, interoperable standards and sovereign digital infrastructure across Canadian and Allied defence capability.
Future finance and digital trade
Shape the governance, standards and trust infrastructure through which tokenized assets, digital payments, trade data and programmable markets can develop in Canada.
Sustainable IT
Reduce the environmental impacts of digital operations, cloud, data, devices and ICT supply chains through common measures, practical guidance, standards and coordinated adoption.
One connected model
The mix of activity differs by mission, but the path from executive priority to implementation is consistent.
Convene
Executive leaders and invited experts define the problem, compare experience and identify where collective attention is needed.
Coordinate
Participating organizations establish shared objectives, governance, work plans, use cases and safeguards.
Codify
Practical requirements can be translated into standards, specifications, guidance and common evidence.
Confirm
Testing, validation and verification build confidence that approaches work and can be relied upon.
Bring your organization into a mission
Participation can begin through the Executive Forum, a mission working group, a pilot, standards development, implementation activity or verification programme.
A challenge, capability or implementation environment
DGC works best when participating organizations bring real operating experience, decision authority, technical capability or a setting in which a solution can be tested.