This week has been the most intense of the year yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We ran a meetup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We hosted a panel discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We launched a newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We published a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We release self-audits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We kicked off a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We had a research onsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The week was intense but also quite rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the 6th time, the Creative Bureaucracy Festival<\/a> took place in Berlin. Hundreds of public sector people and people working with them came together from all parts of Germany and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I attended only in 2019 when we ran an international segment with colleagues from Finland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom<\/a>. I missed the festival in recent years, but one member of the organising team, who had attended our 2019 session, got in touch and encouraged us to participate with members of the International Design in Government community again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we put together a panel discussion that Kara led. \u00dclly from Estonia\u2019s Ministry of Education, Italy\u2019s Head of Design Marco, and former GDS colleague Laurence, who now runs Komo, joined the conversation on stage \u2013 plus various attendees. All are members of our community \u2013 \u00dclly participated in\u00a0our 2018 conference<\/a>,\u00a0Marco talked in a community call last year<\/a>, and Laurence has worked with most of the countries of us all. We discussed \u2018The long slog of public service transformation<\/a>\u2019 with the questions sketched last week. On Monday, we had a remote check-in with all speakers to split the questions and allow them to get to know each other. That paid out during the discussion that Kara managed most skillfully. Paloma did detailed notetaking, and I filmed the session with 3 cameras. So we will put together a blog post and a video, which community members will likely appreciate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The day before, I attended the Global Innovator\u2019s Forum on Wednesday, a new unconference format that also included the speakers\u2019 reception. It gave space for a more intimate exchange of about 80 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n