Every government organization is keen to ensure that its products and services closely match users’ wants and needs. But how do you do that? Should you focus on digital accessibility or on inclusion? Digital accessibility is the driver of many projects, but once they’re completed it turns out that what the client actually meant was inclusion. In this article, we show the differences and the connections between the terms, so that you can make the right decisions for future projects in good time.
The needs of Finland’s abundant and diverse public sector challenge us to develop support for the development of public digital services. How do we develop Suomidigi, the self-sustaining service that supports public sector employees and the developers who work for the public sector?
Last years first two-day International Design in Government conference in London, organized by the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) was a great success. This year two editions of the International Design in Government will be held, one in Edinburgh (May 2019), and one in the Netherlands, in Rotterdam (November 2019).