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Platformland: A Book Talk with Richard Pope

February 12, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
Join DSN for Platformland with Richard Pope

Join the Digital Service Network (DSN) for a book talk with Richard Pope, author of Platformland: An anatomy of next-generation public services.

 

In his 2024 book, Platformland: An anatomy of next-generation public services, Richard Pope lays out how and why the promises of digital have yet to be realized in the public sector and offers a strategic vision for how to “share the benefits of digital with the public fully.” The book offers practical solutions to realize this vision with design patterns, strategic interventions, and leading examples from across the globe. It’s a must-read for technologists, program managers, and policymakers alike who are looking to digital solutions to help make government more understandable, accountable, and democratic.

 

Join us on Wednesday, February 12 at 10am PT | 1pm ET to hear more about translating the book’s ideas into practice from Richard Pope and ask him questions about how public institutions can get digital right.

 

We’re excited to offer a select number of registrants a free copy of PlatformlandRegister and opt in to future communications from the DSN by noon ET on January 31 to be entered into the raffle.

 

More about the Author: Richard Pope was part of the founding team of the UK Government Digital Service and the first product manager for GOV.UK. He created many of the initial design concepts for both GOV.UK and the digital account for Universal Credit (the UK’s social security service). He was a senior fellow at Harvard in 2018/2019, researching and lecturing on ‘Government as a Platform.’

 

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