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PD Newsletter #24 15 April: Once more, with links

Welcome! This is a brief resend of the ways of working section from #24, this time with working links. The downside of editing while on the road in Singapore!

Over to Emily for recommended reading on internet era ways of working.

Ways of working


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How to work effectively with five different suppliers and with governments in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Southern Africa: GDS share 5 things they’ve learned from their Global Digital Marketplace work.

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This week saw the launch of the new U.S. Government Web Design System. It’s built in the open, it has accessibility at the heart, and it’s based on user research.

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Employees are users too: from Australian Trade and Investment Commission, who carried out user research to find out how they might offer better tools for their staff.

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How to stream Show and Tells on Youtube. We like this example from a UK local digital exemplar project because it’s a demonstration of how transparent you can be about ways of working. But also, that it’s hard, and sometimes goes wrong. That’s ok.

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The UN Foundation’s Digital Impact Alliance has been on the road in Dar-es-Salaam and London to spread the word about the for principles for digital development.