From "Next Generation Digital Government Architecture" by Kristo Vaher: Governments shouldn't be rebuilding their entire stack every 5 years, but ensure existing software is maintained and quality proofed:

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Alejandra Gonzalez (@basicavisual.bsky.social): Philosopher and developer, Alejandra has led civic tech in Mexico for 10 years. A former director of Open Government in Mexico City, where she first implemented Decidim and now working on releasing technical specifications for governments at GovStack.

UK has published an analysis of their digital policy. Impressed to read a report which dares to be self-critical and clearly lays out opportunity areas. www.gov.uk/government/p...

@ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Hola Ignacia! Me topé referenciado tu trabajo en este post: megaspiderweb.medium.com/making-a-sta...

Me gustó mucho la herramienta que desarrollaste de stakeholder mapping. ¿Me preguntaba si habría alguna página con más información sobre ella?

Searching for civic tech peeps here. Where are you?

got covid this week for the first time ever. spending my time falling asleep while trying to watch movies, then coding a little. no respiratory problems, no smell loss, just tired. Probably thanks to the 3 different vaccines I got.

send pan de elote 🙏🌽🍞

Who is writing _books_ that can make sense of ethics in AI within the current wave? (already starting with Timnit Gebru)

Live now, speaking about how to sustain a community around an open source software made with public money -> with Decidim, the participatory tool, on the Code for All Summit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Imr...

To cling with all one's might to this phrase of Marcus Aurelius: “Remove the judgement, and you have removed the thought 'I am hurt': remove the thought 'I am hurt', and the hurt itself is removed.” @ meditations 4.7

Esta semana es el Code for All Summit! Aquí tres charlas que les comparto:

1) De PidaLa.info Charla relámpago sobre automatizar el acceso a la información: youtu.be/gbs86EJVp8k