PD Newsletter #110: A time for boldness, not for panic
In the wake of so much noise about the existential threat of AI, our September edition looks at stories of teams using AI boldly and for the public good.
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PD Newsletter #110: A time for boldness, not for panic
PD Newsletter #109: Devolution, with guest editor Catherine Howe
PD Newsletter #108: Our new book: The Intelligence Era Organisation
PD Newsletter #107: What Nigerian cash machines tell us about the value of service design
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PD Newsletter #99: Competitive Advantage by Design
PD Newsletter #98: Test, learn and grow
PD Newsletter #97: Happy Pride, from all of us at PD!
PD Newsletter #96: King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.
PD Newsletter #95: Canada's general election
PD Newsletter #94: Happy Ramadan from all of us at Public Digital!
PD Newsletter #93: The Paris AI Action Summit; Uk's new digital centre for government
PD Newsletter #92: Looking back over 2024
PD Newsletter #91: Optimism matters
PD Newsletter #90: Meet Emma, our new Managing Director
PD Newsletter #89: Working with Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance
PD Newsletter #88: Stand up to Racism
PD Newsletter #87: Digital government is a priority, not an afterthought
PD Newsletter #86: Happy Pride Month!
PD Newsletter #85: Celebrating UK's female athletes
PD Newsletter #84: A person-centred healthcare record - pipe dream or inevitability?
PD Newsletter #83: Be more radical, to be less risky
PD Newsletter #82: Future of Government Awards
PD Newsletter #81: Nominations for the Future of Government Awards
PD Newsletter #80: Nominate smart folk and meaningful work
PD Newsletter #79: Recognise great teams and meaningful work
PD Newsletter #78: Meaningful metrics plus our Digital and democracy event?
PD Newsletter #77: Internet cafes, simple sabotage and microaggressions
PD Newsletter #76: Data Service Standards for cities
PD Newsletter #75: First event in our new series PD Sessions
PD Newsletter #74: Undoing radical transformation
PD Newsletter #73: Transparency, fairness and ordeals
PD Newsletter #72: Digital x public finance
PD Newsletter #71: Quality data. Conscious design. Courageous leadership
PD Newsletter #70: Big tech, ego and effective altruism
PD Newsletter #69: Privacy policies and government gobbledegook
PD Newsletter #68: The Queen, the queue and the Whatsapp work-arounds
PD Newsletter #67: Data as a service. Plus, climate tech
PD Newsletter #66: Roe v. Wade and Big Tech’s responsibilities
PD Newsletter #65: Collaboration, communications, recommendations
PD Newsletter #64: Privacy, surveillance and war
PD Newsletter #63: Wordle. NFTs. Sustainability in transformation
PD Newsletter #62: Social media horror stories
PD Newsletter #61: Data ethics, state surveillance, new book
PD Newsletter #60: Capitalism, competition and common components
PD Newsletter #59: Democracy and the internet, plus 'link rot' and the vaccine passports
PD Newsletter #58: The farce of self-regulation plus good news from the US
PD Newsletter #57: Vaccine passports? Data biz
PD Newsletter #56: A year of WFH
PD Newsletter #55: China. Clubhouse. Plus, we're hiring
PD Newsletter #54: Here's to inclusivity. And hope
PD Newsletter #53: 2020 positives. Plus, we're hiring
PD Newsletter #52: Smart cities, digital Ids
PD Newsletter #51: Terrifying tech. Creepy surveillance. Questionable ethics
PD Newsletter #50: Accessible public service websites
PD Newsletter #49: Asynchronous communication and office elbow bumps
PD Newsletter #48: Essays on digital transformation and digital development
PD Newsletter #47: Tools are great, leaders are essential
PD Newsletter #46: Ethnicity data, facial recognition and the Digital Services Convening
PD Newsletter #45: Bangladesh's multi-sectorial response and other stories
PD Newsletter #44: Welfare. Plus sharing digital responses to the virus
PD Newsletter #43: Celebrating teams doing great stuff under pressure
PD Newsletter #42: Ethics, epidemics and surveillance
PD Newsletter #41: Digital IDs, design systems and hola to our Spanish-speaking friends
PD Newsletter #40: Thanks for all the support
PD Newsletter #39: Digital delivery stories for 2020
PD Newsletter #38: Christmas edition and 2019 year note
PD Newsletter #37: Signals, platforms, manifestos and more
PD Newsletter #36: Biased algorithms, legacy tech, openness and oh, we're hiring!
PD Newsletter #35: Why internet-era CTOs hire developers
PD Newsletter #34: On starting with user needs
PD Newsletter #33: Strategy, sabotage and scribbling
PD Newsletter #32: With news from Madagascar
PD Newsletter #31: Running tech like its 1999
PD Newsletter #30: When design means taking risks
PD Newsletter #29: Accessibility, designing for trust and what's next for Jony Ive
PD Newsletter #28: Cloud, culture clash and delivery at China scale
PD Newsletter #27: Here we go again: digital leadership asymmetrische Wahlkampfführung and vloggers
PD Newsletter #26: (Don't) go your own way
PD Newsletter #25: What Hertz the most
PD Newsletter #24: Once more, with links
PD Newsletter #23: Internet era ways of working for digital procurement
PD Newsletter #22: Partying like it's 1989
PD Newsletter #21: Digital driving licence in Argentina and banning the A word
PD Newsletter #20: Phishing, nostalgia and the cost of failure
PD Newsletter #19: Wild ideas and trends for 2019
PD Newsletter #17: "When many people tell you no, you say Yes!"
PD Newsletter #16: Teams, technology, and empty chairs
PD Newsletter #15: On banks, elections, doctors and democracy
PD Newsletter #13: AI competence, Internet-era ways of working and design at scale
PD Newsletter #11: Planes, platforms and teaching Alexa some manners
PD Newsletter #10: TSB CEO shown the door, Skype simplifies and we say hello to Sweden's DIGG
PD Newsletter #8: Sweden's new team, user needs on Gob.pe and LIDL's SAP fail
PD Newsletter #6: Summer reading for Internet era CTO's and you
PD Newsletter #5: #Fail in Australia, movind capex to opex and Amazon's $1bn purchase
PD Newsletter #4: User research for the whole team, #InclusionNumérique and design sprints at LEGO
PD Newsletter #2: Planes, automobiles, cash for AI and iterative delivery done well