Mike Bracken is a public sector technology leader who was a founder and executive director of the UK
Government Digital Service (GDS). Under his leadership, the UK became a world leader in
digital government
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, with the
US Digital Service
The United States Digital Service is a technology unit housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. It seeks to improve and simplify dig ...
, the
Australian Digital Transformation Office and numerous others modelling themselves on GDS,
as a founder nation of the
Digital 5
The Digital Nations or DN (previously the Digital 5, Digital 7 and Digital 9) is a collaborative network of the world's leading digital governments with a common goal of harnessing digital technology to improve citizens' lives. Members share w ...
.
Career
Bracken was director of digital development at
Guardian News & Media.
He was headhunted by the UK Government and joined the
Government Digital Service in July 2011. He became
chief data officer in 2014. He left GDS in September 2015.
From August 2015 until 2017 he was part-time
chief digital officer A chief digital officer (CDO) or a chief digital information officer (CDIO) is an individual who helps a company, a government organization or a city drive growth by converting traditional "analog" businesses to digital ones using the potential of ...
at
The Co-operative Group.
He is a
visiting professor
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of practice at the
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Bibliography
* ''Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery'' (2018, London Publishing Partnership; / 2021, London Publishing Partnership; )
See also
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Jerry Fishenden
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Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham, (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2015 to 2016, having previously served as Minister ...
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Gov.uk
gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services. The site launched as a beta on 31 January 2012, ...
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GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify was an identity assurance system developed by the British Government Digital Service (GDS) which was in operation between May 2016 and April 2023. The system was intended to provide a single trusted login across all British governme ...
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Martha Lane-Fox
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, (born 10 February 1973) is a British businesswoman, philanthropist, and public servant. She co-founded Last Minute during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s and has subsequently served on public ser ...
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Mayank Prakash
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Ben Terrett
Ben Terrett (born 1975) is a British designer. He was the first Royal Designer for Industry elected for Service Design and has won the Design Museum's Design of the Year, a D&AD "Black Pencil" and is in the Design Week Hall of Fame. Terrett sp ...
References
External links
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Government Digital Service
The Guardian people
Academics of University College London
The Co-operative Group
Chief digital officers
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire