At the 11th edition of the local Berlin public sector innovation meetup ‘Öffentliches Gestalten’, 2 speakers shared their views on visualising data. Moritz Stefaner showed his data visualisation work for the German government. Ha Thanh Thu Nguyen presented a research project on data linked to facial recognition technology.
Category: Vortrag
Meetup: Public Service Design
At Service Design Drinks Berlin, designers Charlotte Vorbeck and Marlene Kettner from German government’s Digital Service spoke about their specific work on justice services and open justice data platforms.
Event: Design for policy
In June 2024, members of the International Design in Government community came together in Berlin to discuss ‘Design for policy’. The recorded inputs are now available.
Meetup: Remaking the welfare state
On 25 March, the 12th edition of the ongoing ‘Öffentliches Gestalten’ meetup series discussed ‘Remaking the welfare state’. The evening included 4 speakers and 3 talks. They showed ongoing research and design work in housing benefits, as well as education and participation benefits for children.
Vortrag: Gute Digitalisierung braucht gute Laune!
Dr. Katharina Große vom Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg sprach auf dem Public Service Lab 2025 in Wiesbaden über die innere Verwaltungstransformation, die nötig ist, damit Digitalisierung endlich gelingt. Sie stellte ihre praktische Arbeit im TränsformerHub_bw vor.
Vortrag: Besser machen – mehr Qualität für unsere Services
Am 14. November sprachen Dr. Katrin Dribbisch, Martin Jordan und Simone Carrier beim Public Service Lab Day 2025 darüber, wie der neue verbindliche Servicestandard hilft, die Qualität von Verwaltungsservices merklich zu erhöhen – und wie das konkret angegangen werden kann.
Vortrag: Verwaltung schneller digitalisieren
Beim Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2025 stellten Greta Strutz und Simon Hesse vom ITZBund das ›Design System für die Barrierefreiheit‹ vor.
Podcasts: Cross border views and the Service Standard
A few weeks ago, Martin recorded two podcasts, one in German and one in English, both of which have now been published and are available on all major podcast platforms.
Talk: Protecting our practice
At the 2025 User Needs First Amsterdam conference, Kara and Martin reflected on current events and discussed what the government design community can do to protect its practice. Their talk has been recorded and is available on YouTube.
Conference: Amsterdam User Needs First 2025
Colleagues from the Digital Service were very much present at the Amsterdam User Needs First 2025 Conference, giving keynotes and talks and participating in panel discussions and podcast recordings. Various talks were recorded and are now available on YouTube.