Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age

I've just found out that three people (in three universities) are starting teaching courses using @TPSDigitalAge in the next 24 hours. It's the most warm and fuzzy feeling ever. Love this community, so happy more public servants are getting the digital era skills they deserve.

A very common cry of digital government transformers and advocates is that "We need policy teams to use design and research skills more!" Does anyone have any examples of where policy teams have indeed done this - perhaps in a way that wouldn't have happened before this decade?

Over the next few days I'm going to tweet some of the research questions that @TPSDigitalAge have developed that resonate most strongly with me. Briefing: tinyurl.com/yzs7ce3o If they resonate with you too, let me know. Finding answers is going to be quite the team effort.

This June we @TPSDigitalAge are running a free, three-half-day masterclass for educators who want to teach digital era skills to current and future public servants. We welcome teachers and professors from around the world, so please do consider applying: teachingpublicservice.digita…

Today’s COVID testing data snafu shines a helpful light on the missing digital era skills that public service top executives suffer from not just in Britain, but around the world. /1 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54422505

Wow - I'm pretty overwhelmed by the way people want to help out with @TPSDigitalAge 🤪 If you'd like to volunteer specifically to help us design weeks on different Digital Era Govt topics, please fill in this form telling us what you're into: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Thanks!