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This is a short submission (copied in full below) I made to the current rewrite of Australia's digital strategy being curated by the Digital Transformation Agency. Its main message is that digital transformation needs to think bigger and take itself more seriously. No disrespect to the complex and difficult technical, often transactional work that is being done, often well, to change the nature of our interactions with many aspects of governing.  Quote the opposite.  The best way to show respect for that work and for the smart, dedicated people doing the work inside and outside government is to put it in the bigger policy and strategic context whose contours and direction it is changing. My reading in the last couple of weeks, especially this from Mariana Mazzucato and this from Roger L Martin, only serve to reinforce my view and add considerable weight to my suggestion. If we are to build back better in the coming year, we need to design policy in terms not of levelling but tilting the playing field — in the direction of equitable, green and sustainable growth that favours all stakeholders and solves our greatest societal challenges. Fortunately, for the first time in a generation, government has the upper hand. (Mariana Mazzucato) Take encouragement in the learning that comes from experiencing and observing the laws in action. Then tweak and tweak to make that …

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