Export Boom Atlas - the playbooks behind 82 export booms in emerging economies since 1995 (AI analysis) exportbooms.org

Embrapa is a large public R&D effort to create agricultural innovation suited to Brazil’s ecology. It shifted research toward local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs voxdev.org/topic/agricu... @rainerkattel.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social

Fundamentals of public sector strategy vaughntan.org/publicvalue

Did the public sector innovation index have an effect on the government in Chile? An evaluation www.lab.gob.cl/noticias/cep...

[Somewhat underwhelming] The agile pathway for policymaking napawash.org/academy-stud...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias thelivinglib.org/openai-is-hu...

A low-cost pipeline for generating abstracts for humanitarian evaluation reports medium.com/data-science...

Did the public sector innovation index have an effect on the government in Chile? An evaluation www.lab.gob.cl/noticias/cep...

Fundamentals of public sector strategy vaughntan.org/publicvalue

Embrapa is a large public R&D effort to create agricultural innovation suited to Brazil’s ecology. It shifted research toward local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs voxdev.org/topic/agricu... @rainerkattel.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social

What the latest research tells us about AI in parliaments modparl.substack.com/p/the-academ...

The Innovation Compass helps early-stage innovators develop the 12 fundamental capacities they need to make their venture succeed www.innovationcompass.io

Export Boom Atlas - the playbooks behind 82 export booms in emerging economies since 1995 (AI analysis) exportbooms.org

The Careful Consequence Checker, a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

Mapping organisations building new economic system across Europe www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/organis...

Between evidence & action lies a wide, messy space — a tangle of political, procedural, human factors. It’s the space where timing, alignment, risk appetite, budgets & personalities collide. This is where good ideas live or die: the “Other Things Box" medium.com/@almero_8848...

"For too long, global health has tried to work within a system that guarantees failure: a financial order that penalises social spending and an innovation model that rewards scarcity" www.scidev.net/global/opini...

Systemic change: an evolving practice with 45+ guides…so what? medium.com/@emilyfrance...

"This pivotal moment in twentieth-century data management was when archiving became a verb—and when access to collected data became a concern for scientists and bureaucrats" issues.org/archiving-ma...

"It isn’t possible to know how different the World Bank's portfolio looks because of the focus on climate, nor what is the impact of that on the average local economic return to investments, nor the impact on emissions" www.cgdev.org/blog/have-cl...

"The world’s largest EV fleet could become a giant battery network" restofworld.org/2025/china-e...

Together, they want to rebuild their life — seed by seed, as if every seed carried a small piece of return newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...

Social return barista academy zuiverekoffie.co/en/sroi/soci...

The African Medicines Agency will ensure that once a treatment is approved in one African country, it can be recognized across others, and aims to boost research: only 3% of clinical trials take place in Africa www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"A growing gap between AI procurement and AI adoption: IT teams manage enterprise licenses for AI, but how these tools are used is left up to individual agencies. Public servants are implementing AI tools that their agencies never formally purchased" www.open-contracting.org/2025/11/10/t...

Wautier has been heralded as the greatest artistic rediscovery of the century, a Flemish Artemisia Gentileschi news.artnet.com/art-world/mi...

Why innovation agencies need radical reform to meet today’s grand challenges rainerkattel.substack.com/p/why-innova...

The museum of unstolen history continent.substack.com/p/photo-essa...

If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.

"This website provides the first comprehensive map of all ferry services in the Lagos metropolitan area, including the schedules and fares" lagosferries.com & some more cool projects from Public Tech publictech.studio

Locally led development is not about proximity to money. It is about power: who defines problems, whose knowledge counts, and who sustains solutions when donors step away blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

What is the most hidden yet effective way to mark inequality inheritance? For sociologist Xu Lingling, the answer is time www.sixthtone.com/news/1017810

What is the most hidden yet effective way to mark inequality inheritance? For sociologist Xu Lingling, the answer is time www.sixthtone.com/news/1017810

Soft regulation is not neutrality, but a strategic decision to let infrastructure be built primarily by market actors... Uncomfortably, Singapore—and the rest of us—must ask not only what AI can do, but also for whom it is being built, & at what cost issues.org/singapore-ai...

A guide to urban hacking, based on the experience of Basurama, Pop-Up City, and Urban Foxes popupcity.net/publications...

Locally led development is not about proximity to money. It is about power: who defines problems, whose knowledge counts, and who sustains solutions when donors step away blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

A phenomenal couple of days with the Institute of Public Value team delving into defensive routines of bureaucracies and how to defeat them. And yes... they are publish a book soon :-)

Understanding UPI through user experience: insights from the ground artha.global/reports/unde... "what’s working, what’s not, and why – through the lens of users’ and merchants’ perceptions and experiences"

The dilemmas of delegation - policy challenges posed by Advanced AI Assistants and natural-language AI agents www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/dilem...

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

In 1837, patterns became explicit government business publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/06/p...

The nursing perspective on innovation govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...

Scaling the Public Sector Capabilities Index: what we know, what we don’t, and how you can get involved medium.com/iipp-blog/sc...

As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

"Impressive mobile phone ownership rates, yet continued inequality" voxdev.org/topic/unders...

The goal of the KMASS program is to deliver user specific knowledge “nuggets” that are useful for a current task—whether the knowledge is requested or not by the user—exactly when needed, while avoiding irrelevant information www.darpa.mil/research/pro...

Rather than treating symptoms one heatwave at a time, Athens is reframing heat as a systemic urban challenge — one that cuts across housing, health, planning, and social policy apolitical.co/solution-art...

This paper argues for moving beyond simple quantification toward richer expressions of uncertainty essential for integrating AI in professional work academic.oup.com/rssdat/artic...

Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development

Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...