In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with Mike Bracken, partner at Public Digital and a global digital leader who has led wholesale transformations of large institutions in the private and public sector. In 2011 British Prime minister David Cameron brought Mike into government from the private sector as the UK’s first Executive Director of Digital and Chief Data Officer. Over five years, he created, led and scaled the Government Digital Service (GDS). Mike talks to us about the challenges and successes of creating user-driven public digital policies and practices and shares with us some needed advice for Sweden, who ranks last in the latest Government Digital Index.

In the podcast Mike will share with us his thoughts about the power of design principles and the structures behind them, the four phases of digital government, and how public institutions rather than private ones might be better at taking the risks of creating future-oriented solutions.