GCcollab

GCcollab is a new GCTools platform, designed as an external collaboration and professional networking platform hosted by the Government of Canada. It is accessible to Canadian federal, provincial and territorial public servants, as well as open to academics and students of all Canadian universities and colleges. Other external users can also be invited to use the platform through email invitations.

GCcollab is an open source, cloud-based collaboration and professional networking tool designed to better enable public servants in their daily work. For instance, users can create their own profiles, add their work experience information, their interests and skills, and use many features to collaborate and share their knowledge on a wide range of topics.

GCcollab is managed by the GCTools Team, which also manages the GCconnex and GCpedia platforms. The team works under the Office of the Chief Information Officer of Canada in the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada.

Launch

GCcollab was established in September 2016 as a one-year pilot project with the objective of offering a variety of Web 2.0 and social media functions.

Usage

• 51,744 registered users
• 2,594 groups

Features

GCcollab offers many features that emulate those of external social networking and collaboration sites, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, Flickr and Reddit.

For instance:

• The wire: a feature similar to Twitter where users can post text with the 140 character limit. Other users are able to 'like' or 'reply' to the comment.
• Chat
• User profiles
• Blogs: users can write an article that reflects upon their ideas or opinions based on a subject relevant to their work practices.
• Groups and subgroup pages
• Files and folders

See also

• GCconnex, is an internal social networking platform hosted by the Gov't of Canada.
• GCpedia, is an internal wiki hosted by the Gov't of Canada.
• Govdex is an Australian government collaboration site
• Diplopedia is the internal collaboration site of the US Department of State

References

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