Are we solving the right problems? 🤔 How can we reframe them, challenge assumptions and embrace learning from failure? Great session with Kat Sexton at Cambridgeshire County Council for #ServicesWeek 🙌

What. a. week! Our pop-up show & tell was super popular in Northampton today 🙌🙌🙌 Thank you @mycountycouncil & Cambridgeshire County Council for bringing your enthusiasm to #ServicesWeek 2020. And well done Kat Sexton and @adelleywelley for smashing it! 🌟

Great recap of what happened during #ServicesWeek from GDS: services.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/12/in-… Thanks for the shout out, we loved taking part! 😊🙌🎉

Local Government Minister @SimonClarkeMP has announced £1.2 million for councils to continue work to develop digital tools to improve public services #LocalDigitalFund #localgov gov.uk/government/new…

So proud of the team at Digital Collective this week. Turning around changes and new requests on a dime with the utmost quality and clarity. Getting in touch with services across three different councils to offer help and support in any way we can. Constantly asking 'how can I help'

One option for #homeschooling, let kids learn code. It's one of the most valuable skills they'll need for the future, understanding how software works. Drag and drop tutorials based on Minecraft are available, for free here code.org/minecraft

#servicedesign Service Design Network, free courses! 🤗sdn-academy.org/post/sdn-acade…

This is a well written advert, so I'm sharing it! Also, Pluralsight is pretty great for #onlinelearning - go get your #digitalskills!

🎨Today's @UoNillustration showcase animation by @LangenAmy tells the story of Digital Collective designer Lawrence Mburu. Lawrence left his home in Kenya to start a new life in the UK. He studied at UniofNorthampton and has worked in several roles with the common theme of helping people.

The Avengers Assembled!

Covid-19: we designed and built something in 7 days! ...so, why does it normally take months? lgss-digital.co.uk/covid-19/ There is some AMAZING work going on in #localgov in response to #Covid19. What have you learned? How have you adapted your approach? #servicedesign #agile

Any of you #localgov heads involved in #digital #transformation will probably appreciate this blog from Benedict - hammers home the message that things could and should be different link.medium.com/2dFrLvCKQ6

This looks good!

I finally finished writing by blog post about my experience and what I learned working at the Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council C-19 hub! It's been like a never-finished work of art! I hope you enjoy it! Feedback very welcome :) lgss-digital.co.uk/100-days-covid… Digital Collective

Today is the last day of our shared team at Digital Collective. We started the team almost six years ago to design better public services. We've learned a lot but I'm most proud of is the team we created and the opportunity everyone has to go on to do incredible things in the future.

An amazing example of how to use tech to create a reliable, reusable and scalable service - in 4 weeks. (And to be honest, even if the talk was about worms, Dan Blundell would still make it brilliant. Go register) #PublicSector #AWS #DigitalTransformation

Our new #digital team at Northamptonshire County Council are looking for a lead #developer to help us deliver exciting services at #futurenorthants. Check it out linkedin.com/jobs/view/2220… @mycountycouncil #softwareengineer

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