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- We decided to make those hidden rules transparent and invited the families who actually need the tool to help us draft them. We call this approach “Unboxing the Prompt.” rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/unboxin...
- Arab historians portrayed him as a charlatan, while Soviet histories framed him as a proponent of proto-socialism" jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/fil...
- Cats to blame for octopus deity enshrinement delay spoon-tamago.com/cats-to-blam...
- "The main organizing principle was I wanted to turn towards the margins. I was interested in subcultures, the underground, the subaltern. That is where I believed the most interesting stories were being told" www.reuters.com/lifestyle/cu...
- Scaling innovations in public health www.who.int/publications...
- The Public Benefits Innovation Fund functions as a living lab for public benefit systems—a controlled environment where states can work with builders to test promising ideas, generate real-world learning, and share those lessons with the broader field rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/experim...
- "Success is not defined only by what scales, but by what we learn, how early we learn it, and how that learning improves future decisions"
- Reposted by gquaggiottoOur friends at @investinopen.bsky.social have posted a case study of our attempts to create real sustainability for Knowledge Commons: investinopen.org/blog/buildin...
- [Surprise surprise] New evidence from Chile finds that in-situ slum upgrading delivers larger gains in local economic development at a lower cost than policies that relocate slum populations elsewhere voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
- Using experimentation to unlock skills and talent www.innovationgrowthlab.org/blog/bridgin...
- Strategies for rapidly adopting proven ideas in cities bloombergcities.jhu.edu/news/strateg...
- The African Tech Futures Lab is a virtual think tank designed to connect African expertise across borders & disciplines, and to link it more systematically to the arenas where decisions are actually made rosemutiso.substack.com/p/africa-tre...
- The true power of a systems-focused portfolio lies not in aggregating the results of individual projects, but in generating learning and collective action across all interventions to shift the system itself medium.com/@undp.innova...
- [Why air pollution needs a portfolio approach] "Our goal was to identify leverage points in current governance where shifts could deliver the greatest pollution-related health benefits" theconversation.com/air-pollutio...
- Governments must look at how air pollution spreads in an area, then develop rules for co-ordinating across jurisdictions. That means setting out roles for different departments, establishing shared data standards and creating dispute-resolution mechanisms
- Reposted by gquaggiotto“Bowen and Watson's own writing is embarrassingly sloppy, too often mirroring the imprecision and nonsense of even the best AI models. Typos abound. Metaphors fall flat… Research is misrepresented and citations too often come off as afterthoughts. The AI-generated index is useless.”
- "India's first, largest rural air quality monitoring network" www.respirer.in/project-amrit/
- The point is that policy research necessarily has to mirror the iterative nature of policymaking and implementation. And you only get to do that properly when studying a specific policy being implemented in a specific institutional/political context www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-intern...
- [What a story] "In protecting the birds, the local women found their own sense of identity and livelihoods too... Today, the Hargila Army includes 20,000 women from 47 villages – all of whom have signed a pledge to protect the bird" www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
- A team at the Chinese University has extracted more than 48,000 concepts from dozens of classical books to build OpenTCM, an AI system that educators and students use to search ingredients, link symptoms with treatments, and answer diagnostic queries restofworld.org/2026/traditi...
- As visitors sit, they encounter shifting perspectives, new texts and new faces, echoing the dynamic exchange of ideas that libraries foster www.designindaba.com/articles/cre...
- When red-legged grasshoppers and self-taught entomologists are the protagonists of publicly funded science, you get a different story about the enterprise than the one centered on J. Robert Oppenheimer meeting Vannevar Bush issues.org/locusts-fede...
- With the history of the locust as a template for the development of publicly funded science, collaborative sensemaking, questions around social safety nets, and wicked problems become central to the way we understand the relationship between science and the public
- "The images were made in the waiting rooms and corridors of social security and unemployment offices around the UK" www.1854.photography/2021/07/paul...
- [Can so much relate to this] "While the majority try to avoid bureaucracy, Dr Alexandra Irimia deliberately focuses on it in her research" www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
- "In today’s world, where the world-system is itself undergoing a massive structural adjustment, it is this mostly invisible (because unrecorded) economic system for trade & commerce, business & development, that really should be taken seriously on its own terms" nitib.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/a...
- Prediction isn’t intelligence: how predictive models really work in government rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/predict...
- In Singapore, which is known more for its urban planning and manicured landscape, desire paths become examples of disorder and disobedience, and even an exercise of democracy kawan.kontinentalist.com/exploring-de...
- But bureaucratic expertise is built through practice. Experience cannot be purchased.. Organizational learning requires doing; it is not a transaction, but “an incremental and collective process.” Once lost, capabilities are difficult to regain democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/...
- Si profila un “Proletariato Digitale” che affitta i propri lineamenti per pochi centesimi, mentre le élite blindano la propria identità dietro firewall legali invalicabili marcobani.substack.com/p/quanto-val...
- Making sense of AI with the cooperative movement platform.coop/blog/making-...
- Designing data centres for justice and resilience www.linkedin.com/pulse/naviga...
- "Inclusion in AI governance often stops at the moment it becomes inconvenient" reamby.substack.com/p/kojo-c-ape...
- South – South rising: building bold futures together events.sankalpforum.com/event/sankal...
- Reposted by gquaggiotto🚀 Building the R&I Agency of the Future IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social recently joined the Insider podcast, hosted by Ricardo Migueis, to discuss how to rebuild public-sector capacity for modern innovation systems. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/SLmRMoK
- Regulatory approaches focus primarily on preventing AI systems from producing false or harmful content... The patterns in this data suggest a different set of vulnerabilities operating at the relational and systemic level blog.cip.org/p/2025gdindex
- "We’ve built recurring infrastructure to learn how the world actually lives with AI"
- UbnutuGuard: a culturally-grounded policy benchmark for equitable AI safety in African languages arxiv.org/abs/2601.126...
- Want to solve deepfakes? Ask citizens what to do www.ft.com/content/76de...
- Not your usual WIPO report - assessing the innovation capabilities of nations (sadly, still a rather narrow definition of innovation) www.wipo.int/publications...
- Black and lower-income communities have once again found themselves carrying the weight of “innovation”–a pattern that long predates any “community first” pledge www.essence.com/news/money-c...
- Moving towards agroecological food systems in Southern Africa www.globalissues.org/news/2026/01...
- 5 ways to bring clarity to complex services (without service mapping) ayeshamoarif.substack.com/p/making-ser...
- The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... via @emmet.quiddity.ie
- Reposted by gquaggiottoImagine that every innovation report to the mayor had two sections: 1. Did it deliver on the immediate goals? 2. What did it do to the city’s capabilities? bloombergcities.jhu.edu/news/new-kpi...
- The Dutch, it appears, have sleepwalked into a situation where their digital ID platform - critical infrastructure for a variety of government and private processes - will likely soon be in the hands of US big tech georginasturge.substack.com/p/digital-id...
- In May 2025, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague suddenly found that he couldn’t log into his email account. The US government had ordered Microsoft, owner of the email platform in question, to block his account
- Former USDS leaders launch tech reform project to fix what DOGE broke www.wired.com/story/former...
- An interesting update on the UK National Data Library - "We launched 5 kickstarter projects that aim to deliver high value use cases while testing innovative ways to address challenges related to data access" www.gov.uk/government/p...
- "Tang argues that the old “Newtonian” style of democratic politics, which revolves around formal political institutions and set election cycles, is no longer suited to a world of rapid change and mutating online identities" www.ft.com/content/76de...
- "It might be that the true horror of bureaucracy lies not in its errors and inefficiencies, but in the fantasy of total efficiency itself" blog.kulturwissenschaften.de/rule-by-algo...
- Don't know what is best - the cartoon, or the fact that there was a civil service magazine called "Red Tape" blog.kulturwissenschaften.de/rule-by-algo...
- Didn't know there's a virtual museum of public service www.publicservicemuseum.org
