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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the...

8 In my work in the public sector over the last 20 years or more, one of the most familiar tropes is the exasperated crusade so many engage in to find better ways to collaborate within and across...

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Why is is so hard to do what we know? Or what happens when I’ve hit the wall

There’s a lot of movement at the moment around questions of rebuilding after COVID (assuming there is an ‘after COVID’; I think this is with us for a while) especially in what is sometimes referred to...

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Smart Cities: People, Place and Power

It was great to have the chance today in a short presentation to the South Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC) to revisit 20 years of engagement in the “smart cities” movement, which for...

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Cataclysm versus hope: a note on the US Presidential election

There are only two ways to respond to the US presidential election, one cataclysmic and the other chock full of hope. You could look at what has happened in the election, and the turbulent and...

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Digital transformation strategy 2.0

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...

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Digital transformation: not as easy as it looks

The digital transformation of government and the public sector isn’t as easy as it looks. You would think that after 20 years or so, mainly on the outside looking in, and occasionally from the inside...

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The New Orthodoxy

Why we need a critical review of digital transformation of government and the public sector in Australia to support human flourishing through sustainable and shared prosperity. Australia needs a...

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Artificial intelligence: a registry of power

I am reading Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford, partly because of an interest in all things digital (and the AI ‘thing’ is hot and hotter) and partly because I am a member of the NSW Government’s AI...

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What is government for?

This is the 19 July email from US historian Heather Cox Richardson, part of a free “letter from an American historian” to which you can subscribe here.  If you want to join the comments discussion it...

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Why I care about a moonshot for care

I love the idea of moonshots. There is something stirring and hopeful in the conception of setting a venture for change or accomplishment whose virtue lies primarily in its scale and boldness. Mariana...

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Digital transformation: not as easy as it looks

The digital transformation of government and the public sector isn’t as easy as it looks. You would think that after 20 years or so, mainly on the outside looking in, and occasionally from the inside...

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The New Orthodoxy

Why we need a critical review of digital transformation of government and the public sector in Australia to support human flourishing through sustainable and shared prosperity. Australia needs a...

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Artificial intelligence: a registry of power

I am reading Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford, partly because of an interest in all things digital (and the AI ‘thing’ is hot and hotter) and partly because I am a member of the NSW Government’s AI...

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What is government for?

This is the 19 July email from US historian Heather Cox Richardson, part of a free “letter from an American historian” to which you can subscribe here.  If you want to join the comments discussion it...

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Why I care about a moonshot for care

I love the idea of moonshots. There is something stirring and hopeful in the conception of setting a venture for change or accomplishment whose virtue lies primarily in its scale and boldness. Mariana...

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“We are as gods and might as well get used to it.”

I’ve borrowed the title for this blog from a recent review article from Foreign Affairs.  It references Stewart Brand’s introduction to the first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, “an encyclopedic...

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“We are as gods and might as well get used to it.”

I’ve borrowed the title for this blog from a recent review article from Foreign Affairs.  It references Stewart Brand’s introduction to the first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, “an encyclopedic...

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the...

I don’t know much about judo or any of the similar martial arts, but I gather one of the central features is the ability to use the power and momentum of the attacker to your advantage.When you are...

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