BeDigitalG is a continuous series of conferences, (weekly) evening talks, workshops and hackathons. Speakers and coaches should be digital champions (from in or outside of government). This is also an opportunity for startups to get more involved with government and for bigger companies to follow new trends.
BeDigitalG will focus on digital skills in order to achieve interdisciplinar improvements regarding operational efficiency and open data.
In November 4 two hour meetups will be organized. There will be one or more interesting speakers on a digital related topic and there will be an even interesting audience interacting with the speakers.
Digital transformation is a hot topic all over the world. Traditionally governments were lagging but in recent years countries such as the UK and the US have become very vocal on their efforts in all things digital. This meetup will give a small overview on what's happening all over the world and how Belgium is doing.
More or less every popular startup nowadays tries to follow the lean startup methodology in order to become successful and grow. But what exactly is the Lean Startup methodology? Can a government and its civil servants learn anything from it?
Your organisation generates data. Your organisation consumes data in one way or the other. However, does your organisation use data in an optimal way?
Concepts such as Open Data and Public Service Information (PSI) will become very important in the years to come. Not only because it will mandated from the European governance levels, but also because citizens will demand easy access to those data.
Coderdojo’s are training events to learn children how to code. Organising coderdojo’s for civil servants will be very valuable as well.
Fix a bug (code, documentation...) in an open source product used by your administration.
How to publish open data on data.gov.be? How to consume open data?
Focus on specific data set(s). The first event should explain how to organise a hackathon.
Case studies of UK, USA, Netherlands, France, …
Talk about understanding the end user, customer development, business model canvas, value proposition canvas, minimum viable product (MVP), …
Not every service has access to a business analyst fluent in process design and service design. However, a simpler process often leads to a better service.
Map and try to get existing initiatives connected.
What is digital marketing? How does social media fit within digital marketing? How to use digital communication to improve the citizen - government relationship?
Great digital products offer a great user experience (UX). How to design and construct a great user experience?
Privacy and Security in a digital world may seem the same but they are in fact two different things. Data Protection?
How to innovate? How not to innovate?
What is big data? How does it compare to data science? The importance of data visualisation.
Belgian startups and bigger companies present what they’re working on and how their products or services may help the government to become better.
HR2.0, HR analytics, …
Built with, not for. How to give everyone the chance to contribute and open up closed source workflows. Make it possible to share code. Decrease same code being written a second time at taxpayer's expense.
Fuck-up Nights started in Mexico. On such events, entrepreneurs talk about their failures. Civil servants can do the same.