Learn: Government as a Platform.
Best practices for applying the Platform Business Model to the public sector.
digitalgovernment.io/courses/gaap/
Featuring insights from Tim O'Reilly, mark thompson, Richard Pope @[email protected], @TDAndrea23, Tom Loosemore.
GDS just published an enormously exciting strategy. Must read for anyone in the space.
gds.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/20/gov…
Here's my ever evolving slide on how I share this with students based on work with Ben McGuire 🫘 & Richard Pope @[email protected]. The 'come in high' strategy continues to play out:
The APPG session on the Universal Credit IT system is now underway.
Chair Debbie Abrahams MP has introduced speakers from Child Poverty Action Group medConfidential and Richard Pope @[email protected]
Gov policy & digital folks - you need Richard Pope @[email protected]'s series on digital public goods on your summer reading list digitalpublicgoods.xyz
This is an interesting read. I keep thinking of that brilliant phrase from Richard Pope @[email protected] - “software is politics”. It feels more and more apt with every year that passes.
Richard Pope @[email protected] This is was around the team forming / disco bit. Trying to explore/reframe the context or premise of the project. I see v. little framing of the debate in lots of dig govt work. But that might be nature of the CS and associated agencies.
We are working with the Welsh Revenue Authority Welsh Revenue Authority to help them become a “fully digital organisation”
Where to start? Jamie Arnold Jamie Arnold explains in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3sXWIAZ
Richard Pope @[email protected]
I am looking forward to interviewing Richard Pope @[email protected] tomorrow at 11am ET for the first iteration of our Transformer States conversation series on digital govt and human rights.Victoria Adelmant and I will interview him about Universal Credit, a major digital welfare reform in the UK
Read Neil Butt of WRA's blog on working with Centre for Digital Public Services, and the agile approach:
'Not only am I now a convert, but I’ve also realised how wrong my assumptions were on how our existing change process compared to Agile.'
digitalpublicservices.gov.wales/from-data-to-d…
Jamie Arnold
Richard Pope @[email protected]
Talk of ‘doing data better’ is often a bit mysterious.
This is short and clear (related to our work with Welsh Revenue Authority): welsh-revenue-authority.github.io/property-data-…
Centre for Digital Public Services Richard Pope @[email protected]
When someone asks me what does ‘value’ look like from Government services… thanks for visualisation Richard Pope @[email protected]
Andrew White Tom Forth Quite a lot of Government as a Platform style common components/resources are captured by Richard Pope @[email protected] here - platformland.org/mapping/
As government platforms become more prevalent Richard Pope @[email protected] and I look into the thorny question of who and how to pay for these novel state infrastructures #digitalgovernment #gaap #platforms Bennett Institute for Public Policy 👇🏼
A few months back we launched an online conversation series on digital government and human rights titled 'Transformer States'. Watch the first three
conversations with Richard Pope @[email protected] Nanjala Nyabola and @evevincentMQ on systems in the UK, Kenya and Australia at bit.ly/3p3YI6V
A bumper collection of recent Strategic Reading hit hundreds of mailboxes earlier this afternoon - if yours wasn't one of them you can find it at strategicreading.uk/week107/
Thanks to Martin Stanley 🇺🇦, Jonathan Slater, Stian Westlake and Richard Pope @[email protected] for being thought provoking
'At the moment we are designing our public services like an iPad. Functional but good luck if you want to understand the rules it runs on' richardpope.org/talks/2024/03/… Richard Pope @[email protected] on why user centered design alone is not sufficient
Via Richard Pope @[email protected]'s excellent newsletter, Jerry Fishenden's coruscating review of Universal Credit.
(The title is misleading: it's not just politicians who can learn from this, it's anyone involved in government service design.)
Excerpts follow.
ntouk.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/wha…