• Design and deliver digital services with a focus on customer satisfaction.

  • Your responsibilities

    To successfully meet this criterion, agencies need to:

    • identify the most appropriate measure to monitor the satisfaction rates of the digital service
    • give users the ability to rate their satisfaction/dissatisfaction
    • continuously monitor customer satisfaction of the digital service and act to improve outcomes. 
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  • When to apply

    Apply Criterion 4 at all times in the Live environment and consider it during Discovery. Compile metrics and monitor the digital service with a holistic approach. Report the results to build government’s view of its digital services landscape. 

    Customer satisfaction is an industry-standard measure of digital service quality. At a minimum, customer feedback channels should be available on each page and at the end of a digital transaction. 

    A mature monitoring framework:

    • adopts a best practice approach 
    • integrates feedback tools as users actively use digital services
    • surpasses baseline requirements and provides in-depth insights on the user experience. 

    Apply Criterion 4 to encourage user-centred design and contribute to internal continuous improvement processes.

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  • Questions for consideration
    • Can users easily provide feedback within their digital experience?
    • What can be learnt about the customer’s journey?
    • What can agencies learn from digital services that have high customer satisfaction?
    • Are user expectations aligned to their actual experience?
    • What impacts factor into customer satisfaction?
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  • Your responsibilities

    To successfully meet this criterion, agencies need to:

    • identify the most appropriate measure to monitor the satisfaction rates of the digital service
    • give users the ability to rate their satisfaction/dissatisfaction
    • continuously monitor customer satisfaction of the digital service and act to improve outcomes. 

    When to apply

    Apply Criterion 4 at all times in the Live environment and consider it during Discovery. Compile metrics and monitor the digital service with a holistic approach. Report the results to build government’s view of its digital services landscape. 

    Customer satisfaction is an industry-standard measure of digital service quality. At a minimum, customer feedback channels should be available on each page and at the end of a digital transaction. 

    A mature monitoring framework:

    • adopts a best practice approach 
    • integrates feedback tools as users actively use digital services
    • surpasses baseline requirements and provides in-depth insights on the user experience. 

    Apply Criterion 4 to encourage user-centred design and contribute to internal continuous improvement processes.

    Questions for consideration

    • Can users easily provide feedback within their digital experience?
    • What can be learnt about the customer’s journey?
    • What can agencies learn from digital services that have high customer satisfaction?
    • Are user expectations aligned to their actual experience?
    • What impacts factor into customer satisfaction?

    How to apply criterion 4

  • Criterion 5 – Analyse and report your digital performance

  • Reporting the performance of digital services across government enables transparency and accountability.

  • Your responsibilities

    To successfully meet this criterion, agencies need to:

    • establish internal processes to support performance data analysis and reporting
    • report on progress during IOF states and post-implementation performance data, with key reporting requirements in the following states:
      • Strategic planning and prioritisation: report on how you intend to implement a monitoring framework (Criterion 1) to your digital service
      • Contestability: report (with evidence) that the Digital Performance Standard has been, or will be, applied to the digital service
      • Assurance: report (with evidence) how you have applied the Digital Performance Standard to the digital service
      • Operations: report (with evidence) on how the digital service continues to meet customer needs
    • analyse performance results and act on any improvements to the agency’s digital service.
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  • When to apply

    Criterion 5 will apply throughout the design and implementation states of the IOF process and once the digital service is made available to the public in the Live environment. 

    Examples of analysis and reporting requirements will include but are not limited to: 

    • Strategic planning and prioritisation: outline the planned approach to applying the Digital Performance Standard
    • Contestability: explain the plan and approach for meeting the Digital Performance Standard and when this will be implemented to support the investment proposal (Digital Capability Assessment Process)
    • Assurance: demonstrate the progress of the ICT investment towards meeting the Digital Performance Standard and delivery milestones
    • Operations: demonstrate that the ICT investment is continuing to meet customer needs.

    As the monitoring framework matures, agencies should aim to achieve best practice, collecting and monitoring more meaningful user-centric metrics. 

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  • Questions for consideration
    • Does the monitoring framework provide meaningful reporting data about ICT investment outcomes?
    • Does the reporting data say how well we have delivered the benefits as stated in the ICT investment proposal?
    • What outcomes are expected from the reported data?
    • How can the reported data be used to improve outcomes for users?
    • How can best-practice monitoring be applied to the digital services?
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  • Guidance to analyse and report your digital performance

  • Digital Inclusion Standard

    The Digital Inclusion Standard sets the requirements for inclusive and accessible digital government experiences. 

    The Data and Digital Government Strategy (the Strategy) sets a mission for the government to deliver for all people and businesses by embedding inclusion and accessibility at the heart of everything we do. The Digital Inclusion Standard advances this mission, providing agencies with practical advice and guidance on what digital inclusion means and how to apply it.

    ‘There are considerable benefits to a more inclusive Australia where everyone has the same opportunity to participate – both socially and economically’ – the Strategy

  • Read the standard online

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  • The criteria

    The Digital Inclusion Standard consists of the following 5 criteria.

    Each criterion is accompanied by:

    • an explanation of its purpose
    • your responsibilities in meeting it
    • when to apply it
    • suggested activities to apply it
    • further resources and guidance.

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