Two years ago, we launched our youthprivacy.ca website to engage people on the issues around young people and digital privacy.
When we launched youthprivacy.ca, Twitter had about 500,000 users, Google was rumoured to be entering the mobile phone market, and the idea of managing your digital footprint was just gaining some steam.
To say a lot has changed over the last 24 months would be an understatement.
We want to redesign the site to better present existing and new content, and highlight resources and work being done elsewhere on the topic. We also want the process of rebuilding this website to be open and transparent. We feel that there is a much larger community of public servants and private citizens with the experience, the expertise and the skill sets to make this a useful and highly collaborative exercise.
After all, why build communities of practice if we only continue to build projects within silos and concealed behind departmental garden walls?
We are inviting input from people with interest and expertise from both within government (specifically #w2p and #ux communities of practice, and those with experience reaching out to young people and engaging in public education and social marketing) and external to government (non-profit sector, educators and librarians, young people themselves).
Much of the process will be run on GCpedia to facilitate contribution among Government of Canada employees. For folks external to government without access to GCpedia, we'll provide some updates on this page - and if you have ideas on how we can open up collaboration to the outside community, let us know.
Check out the wiki page on GCpedia or this page for additional information, and let us know if you interested in pitching in. And I'll leave you with this thought:
"It’s always easier to tame a wild idea than to invigorate a limp one."