The Canadian Digital Service teams up with federal departments and agencies to put people’s needs at the centre of government services.

And today we will go behind-the-scenes and learn the details on how Covid Alert was created.

Emily Kuret (the CDS Product Manager) and Josh Ruihley (the Senior Technical Advisor) join us and share details about its development. Everything from the "pre-green-light" internal testing to why the CDS chose to re-create a more modern version of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet to help front line workers share the one-time-key to Canadians.

Blog post from CDS Team about the COVID Alert app
https://digital.canada.ca/2020/07/31/continuously-improving-covid-alert/

Emily Kuret Twitter account
twitter.com/emilykuret

Josh Ruihley Twitter account
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Richard Pietro Twitter account
twitter.com/richardpietro

Re: Open Gov Twitter account
twitter.com/re_open_gov

ABOUT
Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like.

Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality!

MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion
Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance
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