{"id":6477,"date":"2026-06-13T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:46:51","slug":"week-215-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-8-12-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/2026\/06\/13\/week-215-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-8-12-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Week #215 at the Digital Service: Notes for 8\u201312 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was a week of input, rather than output. But it was meant to be. Because there were various events taking place. I managed to be at some and missed others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main output was oral \u2013 for example, in the form of a panel discussion I participated in on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debating inclusive organisations and their outputs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After joining a panel on accessibility last summer, I was invited back to Zukunftskongress (literally: \u2018Future Congress\u2019) by the host, Hans-Henning L\u00fchr. He is the former vice finance minister of the city-state of Bremen, and we met years ago at a Public Service Lab conference he participated in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s panel topic was \u2018Inclusive and resilient organisations \u2013 redesign of public administration\u2019. There were 5 panellists. One of them was me. Two panellists are representatives of disabled employees in their government body. The other 2 were in charge of digital accessibility in their respective state or federal government organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t really disagree on anything. Instead, we built on each other\u2019s points and complemented each other. The crowd listening wasn\u2019t big. Only about 20 people participated, as the parallel sessions drew strong attendance. One person reported how suppliers are almost willingly non-compliant with accessibility regulations. Another described being asked for hundreds of thousands of euros for accessibility-related change requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I talked about leaving the building, going where people with different lived experiences are, and testing inclusively and regularly. I would like to follow up with a colleague who is operating a user panel in Hamburg and another colleague who is building operational practice at the Federal Employment Agency. They seem to be ahead in several areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Immersing in futures in Copenhagen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The PolyFutures event in April<\/a> wasn\u2019t enough. I wanted even more. So I used a good portion of my annual learning and development budget to attend Future Days in Copenhagen<\/a>. I narrowly missed last year\u2019s event, so I prioritised it over the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, which has been a fixture in many colleagues\u2019 calendars every year \u2013\u00a0even internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the topic \u2018currents of tomorrow\u2019, some 400 people gathered for the self-described festival. It is pitched as an \u201cannual gathering for those working at the edges of culture, design, governance, and systemic change\u201d. That was enough for me to justify the time and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A broad range of people attended: People working in think tanks, consultancies, NGOs, as freelancers, and government organisations. All concerned, curious in the future \u2013 and shaping it through a designerly approach. It was a broader mix of views than most of the conferences I attend these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentations and workshops allowed us to see project work, methods, and the concerns, worldviews, and values driving it. Some things shown were slick speculative fiction made for the fun of it for commercial clients; others were community-rooted projects; and others took a global perspective based on academic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf we are open to a systemic change of heart, there are many possibilities\u201d- Anab Jain, Co-Founder of Superflux, on a positive view on futures at #FutureDays #FD26<\/p>— Martin Jordan (@martinjordan.com)<\/a> 2026-06-11T10:21:30.501Z<\/a><\/blockquote>