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Across the African continent, informal markets are more than economic spaces; they are living systems of urban intelligence rooted in cultural continuity and adaptive efficiency fojournal.org/case-study/t...
The Abundance Paradox - Future Observatory Journal
Pushing back against conventional Western retail and fast-fashion, Africa’s second-hand clothing markets provide millions of consumers with upcycled and customized garments. At the same time, this cir...
fojournal.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Across the African continent, informal markets are more than economic spaces; they are living systems of urban intelligence rooted in cultural continuity and adaptive efficiency fojournal.org/case-study/t...
Reposted
Rather than simply wishing regulation away, what about reinventing it? What are the re-tooled planning and construction codes that we need, recognising that they must be more ambitious, not less, about systemic change? fojournal.org/essay/the-re... @cityofsound.bsky.social
The Real Housing Crisis - Future Observatory Journal
The ‘abundance agenda’ argues to ‘build, baby, build’, but a country like the UK already has enough vacant dwellings to solve its own housing crisis and no emissions budget to build with anyway. Rathe...
fojournal.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Rather than simply wishing regulation away, what about reinventing it? What are the re-tooled planning and construction codes that we need, recognising that they must be more ambitious, not less, about systemic change? fojournal.org/essay/the-re... @cityofsound.bsky.social
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It’s time for the centre to become more ‘edge-literate’, rather than demanding that the edge must fit into the centre’s dominant logics sophiaparker-241.medium.com/a-larger-rea...
A larger reality: how governments can escape the local maximum
Back in September, James Plunkett and I launched The Centre for the Edge, a new collaboration between JRF and Kinship Works. We are…
sophiaparker-241.medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
It’s time for the centre to become more ‘edge-literate’, rather than demanding that the edge must fit into the centre’s dominant logics sophiaparker-241.medium.com/a-larger-rea...
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When commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation" www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
Introducing the University of Chicago's Market Shaping Accelerator
Designing market shaping mechanisms to spur innovation to help solve global challenges.
www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:22 AM
When commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation" www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
"Our moonshot: build a five-day global emergency cash system" www.givedirectly.org/emergency-ca...
When crisis hits, emergency cash could arrive in days, not months | GiveDirectly
Read about GiveDirectly’s moonshot plan to deliver emergency cash within 5 days of any crisis worldwide by leveraging mobile money and global remittance systems to provide faster, more dignified human...
www.givedirectly.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
"Our moonshot: build a five-day global emergency cash system" www.givedirectly.org/emergency-ca...
[Intrigued] "What makes the solution innovative is its ability to translate a complex, systemic concept (entropy) into an operational, decision-oriented framework" portico.urban-initiative.eu/urban-storie...
Zentropy MICE Urban Diary – Insights from the field Chapter 1 – (Year 1, 2025)
portico.urban-initiative.eu
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
[Intrigued] "What makes the solution innovative is its ability to translate a complex, systemic concept (entropy) into an operational, decision-oriented framework" portico.urban-initiative.eu/urban-storie...
The real world of digital sovereignty should be about investing in people over products. Digital anything is secondary to primary responsibilities of reconciliation, repair, and equity in service delivery and procurement www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @biancawylie.com
A digital infrastructure plan - CCPA
Asserting digital sovereignty means mapping out the real world of digital infrastructure and understanding which parts are for public intervention
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The real world of digital sovereignty should be about investing in people over products. Digital anything is secondary to primary responsibilities of reconciliation, repair, and equity in service delivery and procurement www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @biancawylie.com
Love, not log frames idronline.org/reimagining-...
Love, not log frames
Philanthropy needs an overhaul, from narrow illusions of control to promoting empathy and agency.
idronline.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Love, not log frames idronline.org/reimagining-...
[Love this project by La27eme Region] Re-synching public sector innovation capabilities (involving practitioners, researchers, educators) www.la27eregion.fr/et-si-les-in...
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
[Love this project by La27eme Region] Re-synching public sector innovation capabilities (involving practitioners, researchers, educators) www.la27eregion.fr/et-si-les-in...
"But their horizontal mobilization strategy, born of digital culture, now hampers the political outcomes of these movements" www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Leaders of international Gen Z movement reflect on their countries' political futures
From Nepal to Madagascar and Peru, youth-led revolts driven by socio-economic demands have shaken governments. But their horizontal mobilization strategy, born of digital culture, now hampers the poli...
www.lemonde.fr
January 6, 2026 at 6:55 AM
"But their horizontal mobilization strategy, born of digital culture, now hampers the political outcomes of these movements" www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
AI can perform the first pass — identifying friction, surfacing patterns invisible to human review. But people are needed to supply context, values, and judgment: to explain lived experience, to articulate public purpose, and to co-design solutions rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/green-t...
From Red Tape to Green Tape: Decluttering the State with AI and Collective Intelligence
Governments are increasingly using AI to identify redundant, outdated, and burdensome regulations.
But efficiency alone is not reform: without public judgment, simplification can weaken essential prot...
rebootdemocracy.ai
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 AM
AI can perform the first pass — identifying friction, surfacing patterns invisible to human review. But people are needed to supply context, values, and judgment: to explain lived experience, to articulate public purpose, and to co-design solutions rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/green-t...
Mass governance means that hundreds of thousands of people feel ownership in the successes, stumbling blocks, and potential failures of the administration jacobin.com/2026/01/mamd...
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
jacobin.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Mass governance means that hundreds of thousands of people feel ownership in the successes, stumbling blocks, and potential failures of the administration jacobin.com/2026/01/mamd...
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The idea that a country wants to have agency over its technology systems is understandable. But let’s take care not to confuse this desire with anything resembling progressive politics. My latest for @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
A digital infrastructure plan - CCPA
Asserting digital sovereignty means mapping out the real world of digital infrastructure and understanding which parts are for public intervention
www.policyalternatives.ca
January 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
The idea that a country wants to have agency over its technology systems is understandable. But let’s take care not to confuse this desire with anything resembling progressive politics. My latest for @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Air pollution quietly erases around 6% of global GDP each year, far outweighing the annual growth expected from AI www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
How data can help countries get clean air and save lives
Air pollution is a serious health and economic issue but countries with the worst clean air have no air monitors; more advanced teams can provide support.
www.weforum.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Air pollution quietly erases around 6% of global GDP each year, far outweighing the annual growth expected from AI www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
[Hmm] Designing and testing a serious game for organisation design in the public sector openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/09/s...
Serious games to support organisation design
Policy Lab has been exploring how serious games can help civil servants make more intentional decisions about organisation design. This post shares what we learned from designing and testing a new gam...
openpolicy.blog.gov.uk
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
[Hmm] Designing and testing a serious game for organisation design in the public sector openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/09/s...
As far as gov't vision docs go, Cape Town 2050 has some interesting elements - e.g. attempts at operationalising long term thinking, clearly articulated assumptions + needs from other levels of gov't resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcent...
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 AM
As far as gov't vision docs go, Cape Town 2050 has some interesting elements - e.g. attempts at operationalising long term thinking, clearly articulated assumptions + needs from other levels of gov't resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcent...
Can we build a fairer platform economy? Here’s how counterhegemonic alternative platforms are trying inca-project.eu/2025/12/16/c...
Can We Build a Fairer Platform Economy? Here’s How Counterhegemonic Alternative Platforms Are Trying – INCA project
inca-project.eu
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Can we build a fairer platform economy? Here’s how counterhegemonic alternative platforms are trying inca-project.eu/2025/12/16/c...
[Here we go again...] "The President of Sensay Island is Marcus Aurelius, Winston Churchill is the Prime Minister, while Sun Tzu takes the reins at Defence. Alexander Hamilton is the new Treasury Secretary" www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
Want to be ruled by Churchill, DaVinci, and Marcus Aurelius? This island is getting the world's first AI government
Could AI do a better job of running the world?
www.techradar.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
[Here we go again...] "The President of Sensay Island is Marcus Aurelius, Winston Churchill is the Prime Minister, while Sun Tzu takes the reins at Defence. Alexander Hamilton is the new Treasury Secretary" www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
When commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation" www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
Introducing the University of Chicago's Market Shaping Accelerator
Designing market shaping mechanisms to spur innovation to help solve global challenges.
www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:22 AM
When commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation" www.marketshapingaccelerator.org
It’s time for the centre to become more ‘edge-literate’, rather than demanding that the edge must fit into the centre’s dominant logics sophiaparker-241.medium.com/a-larger-rea...
A larger reality: how governments can escape the local maximum
Back in September, James Plunkett and I launched The Centre for the Edge, a new collaboration between JRF and Kinship Works. We are…
sophiaparker-241.medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
It’s time for the centre to become more ‘edge-literate’, rather than demanding that the edge must fit into the centre’s dominant logics sophiaparker-241.medium.com/a-larger-rea...
Rather than simply wishing regulation away, what about reinventing it? What are the re-tooled planning and construction codes that we need, recognising that they must be more ambitious, not less, about systemic change? fojournal.org/essay/the-re... @cityofsound.bsky.social
The Real Housing Crisis - Future Observatory Journal
The ‘abundance agenda’ argues to ‘build, baby, build’, but a country like the UK already has enough vacant dwellings to solve its own housing crisis and no emissions budget to build with anyway. Rathe...
fojournal.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Rather than simply wishing regulation away, what about reinventing it? What are the re-tooled planning and construction codes that we need, recognising that they must be more ambitious, not less, about systemic change? fojournal.org/essay/the-re... @cityofsound.bsky.social
Across the African continent, informal markets are more than economic spaces; they are living systems of urban intelligence rooted in cultural continuity and adaptive efficiency fojournal.org/case-study/t...
The Abundance Paradox - Future Observatory Journal
Pushing back against conventional Western retail and fast-fashion, Africa’s second-hand clothing markets provide millions of consumers with upcycled and customized garments. At the same time, this cir...
fojournal.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Across the African continent, informal markets are more than economic spaces; they are living systems of urban intelligence rooted in cultural continuity and adaptive efficiency fojournal.org/case-study/t...
Pooled national or regional compute facilities, predictable access for universities and public agencies, and procurement models that reduce over-dependence on a single foreign cloud matter more than launching yet another flagship model digitalstatecraft.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
What Should Countries Like India Do in an AI Industrial Race They Didn’t Start?
Ambition matters—but only when it is aligned with industrial reality.
digitalstatecraft.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Pooled national or regional compute facilities, predictable access for universities and public agencies, and procurement models that reduce over-dependence on a single foreign cloud matter more than launching yet another flagship model digitalstatecraft.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
Scoring systems are at the center of our bureaucracies—in the form of metrics & rankings. They tell us how to measure our success. They encourage us to outsource our values to an external authority. And they push on us to value simple, countable things www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252...
The Score by C. Thi Nguyen: 9780593655658 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Scoring systems are at the center of our bureaucracies—in the form of metrics & rankings. They tell us how to measure our success. They encourage us to outsource our values to an external authority. And they push on us to value simple, countable things www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252...
Uganda's Disaster Risk Financing Program provides a rare example of satellite-triggered financing operating at scale, but successful replication requires prioritizing institutional architecture and sustained financing over technical perfection agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Lessons From Uganda's Earth Observation‐Based Disaster Risk Financing Program
Uganda's Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) program used satellite data to trigger support for over 452,000 people, generating $40.7 M in total benefits and a return on investment of ≈2.9 ${\approx} 2....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Uganda's Disaster Risk Financing Program provides a rare example of satellite-triggered financing operating at scale, but successful replication requires prioritizing institutional architecture and sustained financing over technical perfection agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...