One of the lessons that we have all learned during this pandemic is how much change is possible so quickly. It has also made evident that skills and capability building are important.
 
As Liz Hilton Segel, McKinsey & Company Senior Partner puts it, sometimes people have the mindset that once they’ve built a competency in an area their learning is done. “What we’re all realizing today is that for everyone, no matter how long they’ve been at a company or at what level, there’s always a next horizon of learning, that’s important for them to stay current, given the speed at which business is changing”, Segel explains. 
 
Experts interviewed in McKinsey & Company's edition of The Next Normal: The Future of Capabilities explain that the next ten years will bring fundamental changes to the working world, and to adapt, employees in almost every role and industry will need to acquire new skills. By 2030, more jobs will require technological, social, and emotional skills. Leaders would do well to develop their workforce’s digital, cognitive, social and emotional, and adaptability and resilience skills.
 
Tim Welsh, Vice Chairman of Consumer and Business Banking at U.S. Bank, thinks that the pandemic has also taught us that a lot more can be done digitally. “But it’s critical to keep in mind that the goal is to create an environment where every person can thrive, learning and growing together and supporting one another”, Welsh remarks.
 
Within the settlement sector, it has not only become crystal clear that a lot more can be done virtually, but also that newcomers are already online embracing technology and innovation. The research Newcomers Report - A First Look at the Data conducted by The Media Technology Monitor (MTM) and Refugees 613 showed that out of more than 4,000 recent immigrants to Canada surveyed:

• 98% own a smartphone
• 7 in 10 use social networking sites or apps
• Facebook is their most-used platform, followed by WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter
• 81% watched YouTube in the last month

Shifting the way we currently provide settlement services is crucial and digital transformation, along with human-centred design, capability building and collaboration, are at the heart of it. How to do it?

Reading the report From Silos to Solutions: Toward Sustainable and Equitable Hybrid Service Delivery in the Immigrant & Refugee-Serving Sector in Canada coordinated by the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA) is a good first step. Let's get started!

Sincerely,
The O2O and ISC Team

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As of September 7^th 2021, Canadian citizens (including dual citizens), people registered under the Indian Act, permanent residents of Canada, or protected persons (refugee status), and fully vaccinated foreign nationals are allowed to enter Canada.

To qualify for the fully vaccinated exemption, travellers must:

• be eligible to enter Canada on the specific date you enter
• have no signs or symptoms of COVID-19
• have received the full series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine or a combination of accepted vaccines
• have received your last dose at least 14 days prior to the day you enter Canada
  • Example: if your last dose was anytime on Thursday July 1st, then Friday July 16th would be the first day that you meet the 14 day condition
• upload your proof of vaccination in ArriveCAN app
• meet all other entry requirements (for example, pre-entry test)

Accepted COVID-19 vaccines in Canada

• Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty, tozinameran, BNT162b2)
• Moderna (mRNA-1273)
• AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD (ChAdOx1-S, Vaxzevria, AZD1222)
• Janssen/Johnson & Johnson (Ad26.COV2.S)

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If travelers received their vaccines outside Canada, it’s still accepted but proof of vaccination must be uploaded digitally in ArriveCAN and must only be in French or English, or certified translation into French or English.

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