Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown

People+planet-centred Service Designer / Product Manager

Service Manual & Service Standard, CDDO, Cabinet Office

ex-GDS
Woke
he/him
@[email protected]

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, #COP27 - "The decarbonization of the world's economies is a real and profound change. The time has come to change the dominant economic system. Colombia proposes 10 actions to face the climate crisis..." https://t.co/rAeLA9xvoa
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[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

✨ The Government Design Principles have been updated, adding: 'Minimise environmental impact'

They are an invaluable cornerstone, underpinning user-centred design in government.

Blog post: https://t.co/jlwshm0pe3

The principles: https://t.co/Qmxzla5uaz #govdesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

We're hiring a Senior Content Designer to work on the Service Standard and Service Manual, at GDS.

£56,070 - £70,219

Deadline end of Wednesday.

https://t.co/QE1jM20gXU

#govdesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

🎉 New Service Manual guidance just published, defining 'What a government service is'.

To be clear when work is part of a service, and what standards and guidance apply. 💪

https://t.co/hvhBX9DLMn
#govdesign #gds #servicedesign #govdigital

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

🌏🌳🔥 NEW 'Environmentally sustainable services' guidance added to the UK government's Service Manual:
https://t.co/376Ylctz6F

Now to get more detail & work out assurance / service assessments...

#govdesign #govdigital #climateemergency #sustainability

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

Posting elsewhere about #Weeknotes from the Service Standard & Service Manual bit of the Service Transformation team, in @GDSTeam :

https://t.co/inQ2lvUibk

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

The Extreme Weather Report, February 20, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels.

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

@ManCityHelp hi - what are the chances that the Plymouth game will sell out before first time Matchday members get a chance to buy tickets? I don't want to pay £75 for 3 memberships to not then be able to buy the tickets... thanks.

[Eva P @Eva_eva_P]

@LauraRiggaro Using a 217 million follower account to post a judge's daughter's personal details puts her at risk and sends a clear message: Rule against Musk/Trump, and we'll come after your family. This is how authoritarian regimes operate. This isn't democracy but political mob rule.😵‍💫

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

💬 New discussions re potential guidance on:

-- Users' digital capability / digital inclusion in service transformation
-- Using maps in a service
-- Researching with BSL users

4/4
#govdigital #govdesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

Some #weekthings from the UK government's Service Standard and Service Manual team:

⛱️ Enjoying being back under the GDS umbrella
🌱 Talking about https://t.co/M40F2N3gdo growing to fit all Service Transformation's services, topics & users

1/4
#weeknotes #govdigital #govdesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

✒️ Continued drafting guidance on: Environmentally sustainable services; How govt defines 'a service' (incl COTS and that standards do apply to COTS), and; using Ai in services

3/4
#govdigital #govdesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

@nwalton2502 @Olayaplazalass It's not true to trivialise the death of a man, describing it as "A silly drugged up boy bands death falling of a balcony". Completely agree that the news has its priorities very wrong, but talking about Liam Payne in that way was grim.

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

"When we talk about a [government] service, we mean all the things that government collectively provides to deliver an outcome for all of its users, through any path a user takes to reach their goal."

#govdesign #govdigital #services #servicedesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

'What is a government service?'

It's a big question when funding them & asking people to build them brilliantly.

In this new post, CDDO defines services around users' outcomes: https://t.co/AQI6h8aLU1

#govdesign
#govdigital
#services
#servicedesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

'What is a government service?'

It's a big question when funding them & asking people to build them brilliantly.

In this new post, CDDO defines services around users' outcomes: https://t.co/AQI6h8aLU1

#govdesign
#govdigital
#services
#servicedesign

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

@cholten99 https://t.co/9luJ0MmM4U

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

@cholten99 I'm there, yes - staying off Twitter tbh, but popped back to post something worky - thank you for the kind messages!

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Net-zero transition will deliver at least ‘£164bn in benefits’ to UK | @Josh_Gabbatiss w/ comment from @SamFankhauser @ret_ward

Read here: https://t.co/eb1qxp1Jvr

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

This is me on bluesky https://t.co/9luJ0MmM4U

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

OK Mr Musk, I am done with twitter, you horrible and dangerous man.

I hope everyone else leaves, too.

Please, everyone leave this platform that gives grotesque power and influence to a toxic, dangerous and extremist narcissist.

Bye Twitter.

[Ben 🌳🔥🌊 #ActNow #ActMore #climatebreakdown @benaldo]

OK Mr Musk, I am done with twitter, you horrible and dangerous man.

I hope everyone else leaves, too.

Please, everyone leave this platform that gives grotesque power and influence to a toxic, dangerous and extremist narcissist.

Bye Twitter.