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How Digital Service Teams are Responding to Covid-19

| Mar. 31, 2020

Digital government is on the frontlines of pandemic response

Apolitical – Over the past week, with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies I've been in conversation with a number of digital leaders at all levels of government keen to share first lessons of how they're addressing the pandemic.

The Covid-19 world is a fast moving one. Everyone I spoke to talked of how it is all hands on deck to help mitigate the worst case scenario and ensure that basic operations of government continue.

A crisis like this lays bare our weaknesses, but also unleashes untapped sources of creativity, solidarity and leadership to address them. Every leader I've talked to has been keen to share lessons and challenges as well as learn, and quickly, from others....

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For Academic Citation: Eaves, David.“How Digital Service Teams are Responding to Covid-19.” apolitical, March 31, 2020.

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