Hey! We’ve been reflecting at how fast time is going! Both Ed and Gemma have been in post 6 months already. Slowing building the team and learning lots every day!

A busy and interesting week with lots going on behind the scenes which we’ll talk about in future weeks. But for now...

Blogs

This week we published two blogs - one from the Sport Wales team who discuss their learnings from speaking to grant applicants, sports organisations and other grant providers.

https://digitalpublicservices.gov.wales/audio-applications-helping-to-throw-the-grants-net-wider/

We also published a blog post from Natural Resources Wales about how they’ve appointed a consortium (a mixed group with a common goal), so they could bring together a variety of Agile skills to work on woodland creation.

https://digitalpublicservices.gov.wales/create-psychological-safety-and-four-other-agile-content-lessons/

External speaking events

We took part in Services Week - a great opportunity to introduce the CDPS to a new audience and talk about our ambitions linked to the digital strategy for Wales.

CEO Myra was on the opening panel, this quote perfectly captures her brilliant opening:

https://twitter.com/Martin_Jordan/status/1500860627396567042?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fcentrefordigitalpublicservices%2FDRAFT-Weeknotes-7-March-11-March-9cfda03a13d64a23ac0a3461c8a3717d

Head of Standards, Rhiannon also featured in a panel discussion for International Women’s Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCR2NqZ_ko&t=3713s

Media coverage

Two interviews were published this week. One in Digital Transformation Magazine and the other in PublicTechnology.

Digital Transformation Magazine

https://www.govx.digital/people/the-joint-ceos-bringing-digital-change-to-wales?hsLang=en

PublicTechnology

https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/features/we-want-set-digital-agenda-and-wales