Having spent only an hour on PwC's Citizen Compass website (www.citizencompass.pwc.com), I realized the true potential of the government capitalizing on technology and adapting eservices to better serve us Canadians. I highly recommend you to join thousands of other Canadians, including myself and other individuals at PwC, to voice your opinion on what services you would like to have available at your fingertips by completing the Choicebook and Idea Forum. I guarantee you that it will be a highly interactive and exciting experience for you that is, in fact, quite entertaining and informative.
The Citizen Compass initiative has been launched for almost two weeks! I have taken the time to participate in the Choicebook and have read several of the comments in the Idea Forum, have you? The Idea Forum topics range from services people would like to see online (adoption, passports) to apprehensions people have about the idea in general such as security. I encourage you all to take the time to visit both of these sites as they are very informative and very intriguing. The only way to have a say, is to participate!
Fellow Canadians, it is finally time for us to be heard. Amidst the economic turmoil that has taken over our thoughts and to some degree our lives over the past several years, many of us have been caught up in our own utopia and have forgotten that we too have a say in our government’s plans, actions and policies. After all, the government plays a vital role in our lives (believe it or not). With social media and other technology on the rise and time to ourselves and our family/friends on the fall, we must capitalize on any opportunity we can get to use technology to help mitigate the time crunch we are facing. I have an idea.
Being a member of the generation Y group, my life revolves around the use of the internet. I pay bills through online banking, I enjoy shopping from the comfort of my own home, if I need to research something for work, or if I am simply looking for a recipe I tend to mutter the words “I’ll google that”. The reality is the internet affects my routine on a daily basis, does it affect yours? What if government service access was as easy as online banking or online shopping? What if you didn’t have to spend your lunch hour waiting in line to renew your driver’s license or renew your vehicle registration? And, what if you were kept up to date and aware of the services the government has available for you?
Share ideas on the future of government eservices in this online platform
How would you improve government services using emerging technologies?
Share your ideas and opinions through online platform, Citizen Compass. From April 18 to May 18, you can join more than 2,000 Canadians by participating via two avenues in the Citizen Compass site:
The Idea Forum where you share and vote on ideas, and
The Choicebook featuring different government service options.
In late June 2012, PwC will analyze and share the results with the general public and government decision-makers.
On Wednesday April 11th, PwC’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) Employee Resource Group is leading and encouraging staff across the country to show their support for diversity by wearing pink. We’re proud to recognize and celebrate the International Day of Pink to help raise awareness and show support of diversity.
It’s an annual celebration of our differences and everyone’s invited!
So it has been a busy season for all of us, but the good news is that we are almost through and the sun is shining. We are plugging through tax season, which is a nice change from audits, and it just so happens that they have started signing us up for UFE prep session. So, I thought it would be good to give everyone an idea of the firm’s supports when it comes to writing the UFE.
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