In week 105, Martin celebrated two years at Digital Service. He is still putting reflections together in writing but proudly co-presented the work happening around justice services with colleagues from UK Justice Digital. Martin also welcomed two new starters and contributed to creating an accessibility data tool.

Martin supported the federal government’s digital strategy again in week 104 at Digital Service – this time with an input on the Service Standard. He also pitched an article about the standard for a journal, planned upcoming community events, and co-delivered a lunch and learn on presenting well.

With internal and external exchanges on accessibility, the topic was much on Martin’s mind in week 103 at Digital Service. He supported a workshop and discussion with product and transformation managers about accountability for accessibility and also met with the team at the Federal Monitoring Centre for Accessibility.

Martin’s week 102 at Digital Service was packed: He joined the Digital Council of the Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt, wrote short bits on ‘why user research’ and ‘what’s content design’, and helped prepare some vision mock-ups for a justice service portal presentation.

Four new user-centred design people started at Digital Service in Martin’s week 101. He welcomed them with a new format. He also continued interviewing more candidates and opened yet another role. Together with colleagues, he met with state-level experts on the topic to discuss accessibility.

Before the long Easter weekend, Martin joined an engaging strategy discussion round. He also co-ran an accessibility introduction session, planned forthcoming events, and considered leverage points for the Service Standard.

Martin was in the spotlight in week 99 at Digital Service when contributing to videos the communications team filmed. He also continued contributing to the digital strategy’s learning clusters working stream.

In week 98, Martin spoke about the Service Standard a couple more times together with his colleague Caro to various public sector audiences. He also supported exchange between various lighthouse projects of the Federal digital strategy. Besides, Apolitical recognised his community work by adding him to a ‘Government Talent Trailblazer’ list.