🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers In his latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/WLk4ynw

I've said it before and this week has hammered it home. Every country is going to get nuclear weapons now. In a world where might makes right, the ultimate form of might is now a non-negotiable. Korea, Japan, Poland, Ukraine are the obvious candidates that will move the fastest.

Excited about this piece and the reactions so far.

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers In his latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/qt5rz60

This is an effort to figure out what has happened to my 2022(!) tax refund, which is still outstanding, and has no update status (it simply disappeared a half year ago) when I log in. Service design is hard. And I know the CRA team works hard. But we've got to figure this out for Canadians.

Canada Revenue Agency: before calling us, please learn to define your problem in our terms & then wade through 36+ service areas, each with their responsibility set & phone number. Also Canada Revenue Agency: Our work is so good we should be except from Treasury Board Rules about organizing content.

In 1886, workers converted 14,000 miles of railway track in 36 hours. Today, moving a government's data or application from AWS to Azure may feel harder... Something went very wrong with how we built the cloud. 🧵 www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-...

In 1886, workers converted 14,000 miles of railway track in 36 hours. Today, moving your government's data from AWS to Azure may feel more complicated. Something went very wrong with how we built the cloud. 🧵

@aircanada.bsky.social you should move the link to how to pay for wifi to the top (not bottom!) of this page: www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/ho... It's actually pretty hard to figure out what to do once you're on your network but only have texting.

🆕 2025 State of Digital Public Infrastructure Report The latest report by IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social, Research Fellow Krisstina Rao, and Professor @eaves.ca provides a unique insight into the global state of #DPI 🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/GadDwUy 🗺️ Discover the dpimap.org

New York Times crossword has me listening to Pump Up The Volume! Flashback! tidal.com/browse/track...

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🆕 2025 State of Digital Public Infrastructure Report The latest report by IIPP Policy Fellow @jordynfetter.bsky.social, Research Fellow Krisstina Rao, and Professor @eaves.ca provides a unique insight into the global state of #DPI 🔗 Read the report: buff.ly/bS4HkI4 🗺️ Discover the dpimap.org

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues old and new at the #DPIsummit! Also laying down that hashtag.

📲 The DigiLocker Story The latest IIPP case study explores how India used a new digital public infrastructure (DPI) solution to address document management by leveraging the India Stack and the digital ID system Aadhaar. 🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/TcprfyK @eaves.ca

Come study with us!

🎉Another week... ANOTHER new case study🎉 The DigiLocker Story: How India is digitising its documents 600 million users and growing. Miles ahead of most other governments. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

🎉 CASE STUDY ON GOVERNMENT PLATFORMS! 🎉 Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State: How the UK government designed & financed GOV.UK Notify Notify saves the UK gov millions but creating & financing gov platforms is challenging! Big TY to Hannah White & @jordynfetter.bsky.social. bit.ly/42FkBQr

🤝 Building Trust in Sharing Data The latest IIPP case study by Jordyn Fetter and @eaves.ca explores how the United States Department of Transportation addressed a congestion crisis by identifying and building state capacity on data custodianship and governance. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/7HZztBU

Batteries Dominate Zero-Emission Truck Sales: "The prospects for hydrogen in road transport look dim. Cost for both vehicles and fuel remain high, infrastructure is challenging, buyers seem uninterested and generous government subsidies won’t last forever." ⚡️ #alwaysbecharging

New case study!!!

We @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk are hiring a postdoc to work on AI and geopolitics www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Join us for this year's Reynolds Lecture with @mazzucatom.bsky.social on Mission-Oriented Government: Building State Capacity for the 21st Century 📅23 Oct 2025 🕠17:30-18:45 📍Emmanuel College, Cambridge Book your place: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/2025-... @iipp-ucl.bsky.social @eaves.ca

My feed right night: Yeah, sure Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid was great but Sneakers is where it is at.

It’s what I wanted to be growing up. :)

In this talk for Futuroscope 2025 (with French subtitles) I say that populism happens midway along each technological revolution. The way out are policies creating new dynamic demand. Last time it was suburbanisation; this time it's reglobalisation for a North-South win-win game. urls.fr/xo9QKg

‪@johnthornhill.bsky.social‬ published an article in the Financial Times wrote about a potential crash of the AI investment hype referring to my work on technological revolutions, financial bubbles and golden ages. "Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI" on.ft.com/45thsoG ·

Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.

If you’re in Vancouver this summer definitely check out “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” I’m no art critic but this @bardonthebeach.bsky.social production was delightfully redone with 80s vibes and the cast just wanted to have fun. It was fantastic.

As AI advances, more policymakers have been considering the benefits of a public AI compute reserve for startups and research. Sarosh Nagar and @eaves.ca explore what "access to compute" would mean in practice and the importance of these measures for the creation of public goods.

This is promising medium.com/@storacha/in...

Whoa! 2 Billion... I remember when we were excited to hit 1 million on what we then called our "Dashboard of Vanity." So many good people helped make this landmark possible... Routeware Sends 2 Billion Recycling Reminders—Thanks to You routeware.com/blog/routewa...

Back to the online world. And just noticed this big job posting here in the UK... Director Service Transformation www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

I'm insanely excited about the launch of the new DPI Map website.(dpimap.org) It looks beautiful, easier access country data and has a bunch of new features. Huge thank you to Michelle Wronski, Ole Evans and @krisstinar.bsky.social for making this update happen!

I couldn't imagine a starker piece outlining how America lost the future. Literally driving into a deadend from a economic, sustainability and climate perspective. One day a future Jared Diamond will write about this period of US politics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧩 The Service Gap IIPP Profs @eaves.ca and Mike Braken, with Researcher Michelle Wronski, reflect on Europe's new International Digital Strategy & argue that services should be at the centre of Europe's digital future in their article for @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social ✍️ Read more: buff.ly/c0eocfp

So many good things going on in this photo. Can you name them all? :)

File under: administrative burden. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shakes head... wow.

Stacks don't beget services, services beget stacks. New piece out on how Europe should be thinking about its digital strategy. The Service Gap: Europe’s International Digital Strategy 2025 lisboncouncil.net/the-service-...

5 capitals, 5 countries, 4 continents, 4 weeks. Home.

BSB -> LIS -> LHR An amazing week here in Brasilia. Helping create the first large scale RCT testing the impact of digital training. I also have the privilege of knowing some really great people here.

How do we move from digital feudalism to digital sovereignty? Join me w Francesca Bria, Mike Bracken, David Eaves, Rainer Kattel & Cecilia Rikap to explore developing technological infrastructure that creates value, not just extracts it 20 Jun | 12:00 BST | Join ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Very excited and privilege to be part of this project! We’ve had 2000 people already sign up!!!

Join us: launch of our #ESRC-funded Digital Leadership Training & RCT with 1,000 public managers in Brazil on Tuesday with the @gestaogovbr.bsky.social Executive Secretary, ENAP President, Secretary for Digital Government, @eaves.ca & @fgvoficial.bsky.social. Sign-up: forms.office.com/r/hYyEpjUcpK.

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Whoa. Service culture context shifting from Japan to Germany is… big.

You have been kidnapped and a character from the last tv show you watched is trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? Please tell my family I loved them and that we had a good run. Also. Don’t watch random television on a plane.

For the third time this week I'm sitting in an audience as a government official presents, *using my own slides,* to talk about how they are implementing at country scale, concepts learnt in a class I taught. It's mind blowing.

Also, an absolute delight to spend time with the Japanese Digital Agency - who have been generous with their time and deeply engaging to talk to. A double joy to have former students among them doing amazing work! Very interesting work happening here.