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PD Newsletter #104: Don't risk automation without redesign 🤖

PD Newsletter #103: Shaping Technology for Transformation 📖
PD Newsletter #102: Supporting our clients through 2025 🌟
PD Newsletter #101: Opportunities for transformation in local public services
PD Newsletter #100: Celebrating 100 Newsletters 🎊
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 #18: Signals
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 #14: Diego Piacentini hands on the baton in Italy, buying better technology, user research and agile teams
PD Newsletter #13: AI competence, Internet-era ways of working and design at scale
PD Newsletter #12: Hacking the supply chain, Tom talks platforms and Public Digital share a lot of news
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 #9: The vulnerability of our infrastructure: cyber attacks, coding errors and state-led internet shutdowns
PD Newsletter #8: Sweden's new team, user needs on Gob.pe and LIDL's SAP fail
PD Newsletter #7: Denmark 1st in UN e-Government rankings, on PDFs, the state of the Web and health care records
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 #3: Denmark's leading digital service, agile comms and how to bring open software into your organisation
PD Newsletter #2: Planes, automobiles, cash for AI and iterative delivery done well
PD Newsletter #1: Welcome to Public Digital’s newsletter