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Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani's presentation from a talk on India's #DigitalTransformation over the last 15 years led by the many #DigitalPublicInfrastructure (DPIs). In the presentation, Nandan attempts to join the dots and present the bigger picture, saying that it is a testament to the great work done by the government and our entrepreneurs. The presentation has been released under a Creative Commons license.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is about enabling a technology-led model for a nation’s growth that is collaborative, equitable, and democratises opportunity at population scale. It is based on a design strategy with layered building blocks, and an innovation ecosystem. Professor Ngaire Woods hosts Nandan Nilekani who will share the journey of India’s digital transformation using DPI.

The theme for Design System Day 2022 was ‘Inclusivity by Design’, and one key area of inclusivity is accessibility. To help us explore the intersection between accessibility and design systems, we assembled a panel of professionals who have a connection to both accessibility work and design systems. Our panellists come from a varied set of UK civil service, broader public sector and private sector organisations.

Have you ever wondered how popular Drupal is in your local state and at the Federal Government level? This talk will answer that question, using open source tooling.

Julia Topliss, former Account Manager at Morpht, presents on work on the new IPEA website.

The OneCX program is transforming the customer’s digital experience of the NSW Government. It’s making it easier for customers to access the information they need, without having to understand or navigate the structure of government.

This presentation will share how different teams at Service NSW are using Drupal to host content.

This session looks at how GovCMS handles test automation using Cypress as part of our continuous improvement and deployment for SaaS sites on the platform, the benefits it provides for front end testing and our goal for more automated testing.

Accessibility is important to all – not everyone using your mobile app, device or wearable will be fully functioning: either because they have a disability or they are simply engaged elsewhere. Gian Wild talks about the things that are essential to avoid when designing mobile apps, devices and wearables to ensure that everyone can use them.

Expensive to build and often needing highly skilled engineers to maintain, artificial intelligence systems generally only pay off for large tech companies with vast amounts of data. But what if your local pizza shop could use AI to predict which flavor would sell best each day of the week? Andrew Ng shares a vision for democratizing access to AI, empowering any business to make decisions that will increase their profit and productivity. Learn how we could build a richer society – all with just a few self-provided data points.