Nathalie Leclerc
@lecnlerc.bsky.social
Policy. Design. Social innovation. Public administration
Politiques, design, innovation sociale, administration publique
Politiques, design, innovation sociale, administration publique
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Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online
Launch on 80th anniversary of groundbreaking legal effort comes after 25-year project by Harvard law school library
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Well worth a read - this is the kind of thing so many of our communities need.
New today! Disassembling bureaucracy - and assembling something better.
We know we need to make bureaucratic services more human. But how? A long-read, using a fascinating case study. With bonus caterpillars.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
We know we need to make bureaucratic services more human. But how? A long-read, using a fascinating case study. With bonus caterpillars.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Disassembling bureaucracy
And reassembling something better
medium.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Well worth a read - this is the kind of thing so many of our communities need.
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"While digital twins are widely conceptualised in research, their use in governance remains scarce, particularly within federal ministries. Institutional inertia, data privacy concerns, and fragmented governance structures constrain adoption" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Lost in translation: why digital twins thrive in research but falter in politics and public administration | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core
Lost in translation: why digital twins thrive in research but falter in politics and public administration - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"While digital twins are widely conceptualised in research, their use in governance remains scarce, particularly within federal ministries. Institutional inertia, data privacy concerns, and fragmented governance structures constrain adoption" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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« Laissez-moi dormir ! »
C’est un coup de fil au milieu de la nuit.
www.lapresse.ca
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Here's the CBC story with a link to the JAMA study that shows how the private clinics/data brokers/Big Pharma works, and why your private health data may be at risk
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Millions of Canadians' health data available for sale to pharmaceutical industry, study shows | CBC News
Details about your health, medical history and prescriptions can all be found in your medical record. A new Canadian study found in some cases, private companies are accessing parts of that data and s...
www.cbc.ca
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here's the CBC story with a link to the JAMA study that shows how the private clinics/data brokers/Big Pharma works, and why your private health data may be at risk
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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NEW
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NEW
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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State capacity that is being gutted now will need to be rebuilt in the future. Alex Hertel-Fernandez looks back at his time in the Biden administration to identify ways that governments could better use social scientists to improve public services.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
How social scientists could help to rebuild the federal government
Lessons from my time in the Biden administration
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
State capacity that is being gutted now will need to be rebuilt in the future. Alex Hertel-Fernandez looks back at his time in the Biden administration to identify ways that governments could better use social scientists to improve public services.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...
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I'm actually in the costume design forum that's mentioned in this article, and every day it seems like there's a new post along the lines of "our director generated this image and wants us to completely recreate it, what do I do?"
It's so frustrating watching this happen
It's so frustrating watching this happen
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'm actually in the costume design forum that's mentioned in this article, and every day it seems like there's a new post along the lines of "our director generated this image and wants us to completely recreate it, what do I do?"
It's so frustrating watching this happen
It's so frustrating watching this happen
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Hi, just to let you know that as a historian I’m terrified. Like “this is going to get so much worse so much faster than most realize” terrified🙃
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Hi, just to let you know that as a historian I’m terrified. Like “this is going to get so much worse so much faster than most realize” terrified🙃
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one aside based on @rawsignal.ca:
I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now.
if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias
I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now.
if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias
Speaking of which, I encourage you all to read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter today: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
"[Eric Schmidt thinks] automating away the humans is righteous b/c it will reduce dependence on entitled employees, and produce appropriate level of fear/obedience in ones who remain."
"[Eric Schmidt thinks] automating away the humans is righteous b/c it will reduce dependence on entitled employees, and produce appropriate level of fear/obedience in ones who remain."
None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
www.rawsignal.ca
August 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
one aside based on @rawsignal.ca:
I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now.
if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias
I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now.
if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias
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As I discussed here, bureaucracy, so often vilified, relies on rules, impersonality, neutrality, professionalization, rationality, consistency, and built-in modes of accountability + responsibility — antithetical to this admin’s focus on loyalty, favors, grudges, telegenicity, bullying, + “deals”
August 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
As I discussed here, bureaucracy, so often vilified, relies on rules, impersonality, neutrality, professionalization, rationality, consistency, and built-in modes of accountability + responsibility — antithetical to this admin’s focus on loyalty, favors, grudges, telegenicity, bullying, + “deals”
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✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could."
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/H83dBZv
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/H83dBZv
August 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could."
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/H83dBZv
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/H83dBZv
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Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada
Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada
I recently heard someone quip that proposals to cut the Academy Awards are tantamount to suggesting that the NFL trim down the Super Bowl. Certainly for many who would rather watch the former any day ...
www.openculture.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada
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Generative AI runs on a paradox: it relies on content creators - artists, journalists and coders - whose work trains its models while eroding their incomes. The fix is to treat creative knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.
Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.
Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
July 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Generative AI runs on a paradox: it relies on content creators - artists, journalists and coders - whose work trains its models while eroding their incomes. The fix is to treat creative knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.
Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.
Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.
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The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses
The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses
The Prince, The Canterbury Tales, The Communist Manifesto, The Souls of Black Folk, The Elements of Style: we've read all these, of course. Or at least we've read most of them (one or two for sure), i...
www.openculture.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses
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The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (1967, republished by Wired 1996)
July 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (1967, republished by Wired 1996)
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📣 Launching the Public Design Evidence Review
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social contributed to the first-of-its-kind review launched by @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, which considers the role of design in creating more successful government policies & services.
🔗Read more: buff.ly/WHDNo4j
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social contributed to the first-of-its-kind review launched by @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, which considers the role of design in creating more successful government policies & services.
🔗Read more: buff.ly/WHDNo4j
July 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
📣 Launching the Public Design Evidence Review
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social contributed to the first-of-its-kind review launched by @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, which considers the role of design in creating more successful government policies & services.
🔗Read more: buff.ly/WHDNo4j
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social contributed to the first-of-its-kind review launched by @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, which considers the role of design in creating more successful government policies & services.
🔗Read more: buff.ly/WHDNo4j
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The more I learn about the Breakthrough Method, the more I appreciate its simplicity to achieve what often seems impossible in the public sector: bringing common sense back to public services & making exceptions the norm to help the most vulnerable journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NMUMF...
Breaking through bureaucracy. Action research as puzzling, powering and problem-solving - Harry Kruiter, Robert Marc Duiveman, Mees Van Tooren, 2025
This article explores how action research can facilitate social innovation within rigid bureaucratic systems by combining puzzling, powering, and pragmatic prob...
journals.sagepub.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The more I learn about the Breakthrough Method, the more I appreciate its simplicity to achieve what often seems impossible in the public sector: bringing common sense back to public services & making exceptions the norm to help the most vulnerable journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NMUMF...
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DOGE took over the US Digital Service; what lessons can we learned from the civic tech movement that it eviscerated?
@emilytav.bsky.social & Kathy Pham compiled a history of the the creation of USDS, and describe an alternative vision of govt tech.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/revisiting...
@emilytav.bsky.social & Kathy Pham compiled a history of the the creation of USDS, and describe an alternative vision of govt tech.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/revisiting...
Revisiting the Origins of Civic Tech
In era of DOGE, what can we learn from a different approach to tech and government
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
DOGE took over the US Digital Service; what lessons can we learned from the civic tech movement that it eviscerated?
@emilytav.bsky.social & Kathy Pham compiled a history of the the creation of USDS, and describe an alternative vision of govt tech.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/revisiting...
@emilytav.bsky.social & Kathy Pham compiled a history of the the creation of USDS, and describe an alternative vision of govt tech.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/revisiting...
Very interesting and à propos
Particularly,
Create legitimating environments for reformers
Modernise some important outmoded processes
Fund work at the edges
Particularly,
Create legitimating environments for reformers
Modernise some important outmoded processes
Fund work at the edges
"One CEO of a pioneering council I spoke to described this as a process of ‘waking up’. It’s as if staff snap out of a trance, suddenly seeing the human being in front of them" medium.com/@jamestplunk...
How to save bureaucracy from itself
Seven ways to make big institutions less sclerotic
medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very interesting and à propos
Particularly,
Create legitimating environments for reformers
Modernise some important outmoded processes
Fund work at the edges
Particularly,
Create legitimating environments for reformers
Modernise some important outmoded processes
Fund work at the edges
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
May 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...