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Last week I gave a talk at Chatham House for an event on Is Data Localisation the Answer to Data Sovereignty? Location, Control and the Architecture of Trust , organised in collaboration with their Digital Ambassadors Forum. I really enjoyed the conversation and questions and had a number of people ask for slides and more details so [ ]
The Commoditized Stack Over the past year or so I ve been developing an argument around confronting concentration and dependency at the cloud level of the technology stack: that at best digital sovereignty is a poor frame for this conversation, at worst it suggests pathways that are neither sustainable nor desirable. As Mike Bracken and I [ ]
Every year I send around to former students some highlights of this years work. This time I m posting here! Hoping some of this work is of interest to all of you. Always keen to hear feedback! 1. Continued Growth of the DPI Map Our DPI Map has become a go-to resource in the field: 2. [ ]
An obituary for Dr. Connie Eaves, an amazing woman and mother.
This article was written by David Eaves, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tom Loosemore, Partner at Public Digital, with Tommaso Cariati and Blanka Soulava, students at the Harvard Kennedy School. It first appeared in Apolitical. Government digital services have proven critical to the pandemic response. As a result, the operational pace of launching new [ ]
I just ran a workshop/facilitate this morning for a number of the Chief Digital Officers from several European capital cities to help them share best practices and shared challenges in their respond to COVID19. I very much enjoyed the session and my set up has me excited about how remote teaching can approximate the intimacy [ ]
Cryptocurrencies, Public Goods the State Late last year, I and a colleague from HKS were meeting with a VC I’d gotten to know in San Francisco. As an opening salvo in the conversation, the VC asked us “aren’t you worried about a cryptocurrency making the US dollar obsolete?” I replied that if that such a [ ]
Balancing Users, Platforms, and Buy-in Strategies for National Digital Teams This week, digital HKS is partnering with Public Digital to convene digital services units from around the world. We will talk about what is and, more importantly, what is not working, with their work. Our intention is to make this an annual gathering where digital service groups can exchange learnings, [ ]
Part 1: hypothesis goals Context This summer, digital HKS is excited to launch an experimental pilot that will help MPP and MPA students at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) learn Python. Over the next two to three months, we’ll share more details about this experiment: why we are running it, how we are going about [ ]
Okay, so to recap, here at the Kennedy School of Government I’m interested in the social, economic and policy changes brought about by the way digital technologies expand or threaten how we can solve problems, relate to one another, and reimagine institutions and the world. We have a range of students who fall into three broad [ ]