Talk: The power of community

Opening the Helsinki Conference 2024 of the International Design in Government community, Kara Kane and Martin Jordan talked about the power of community and how communities help deal with the long slog of government transformation.

Week #124 at the Digital Service: Notes for 9–13 September 2024

The next version of the German government’s Service Standard is slowly emerging. Peer reviews are continuing and opening up to peers from other public sector organisations. And salary ranges and the underlying salary system are now well documented in a detailed blog post. Martin recaps his week 124 at Digital Service.

Week #123 at the Digital Service: Notes for 2–6 September 2024

Photograph: Sandra Kühnapfel

Martin welcomed the new Work4Germany fellowship cohort. He also co-ran a cross-public sector user-centred design community gathering on designing good forms and welcomed the second content designer in his week 123 at Digital Service.

Week #122 at the Digital Service: Notes for 26–30 August 2024

Week 122 was thoughtful. Martin joined a session on defensive democracy and how public servants can protect and uphold the Basic Law if the far-right gets into government. He did some practical work and some thought work linked to the principle of ‘Open by Default’. Martin also saw some accessibility formats developing a life of their own.

Meetup: Creating better policies

‘Creating better policies’ was the topic of the 6th meetup in the ‘Öffentliches Gestalten – shaping public sector’s future’ series. Three speakers, a lawyer, a service designer and a software engineer, shared how they support lawmakers and policy drafters to create better policies.