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Regulation, innovation and the activist state www.nesta.org.uk/report/regul...
Regulation, innovation and the activist state
Anticipatory regulation for an era of mission-driven government
www.nesta.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Regulation, innovation and the activist state www.nesta.org.uk/report/regul...
"Generating the technologies that would empower workers in traditionally low-paying jobs such as care, retail, and food services requires a dedicated public effort, similar to what we need for renewables" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
Neglected Solutions to Our Biggest Problems
Dani Rodrik argues that we already have the tools we need to address the world's biggest economic challenges.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"Generating the technologies that would empower workers in traditionally low-paying jobs such as care, retail, and food services requires a dedicated public effort, similar to what we need for renewables" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
There are many subnational experiments in which partnerships.. are delivering meaningful economic transformations. These local, place-based initiatives may not look like traditional industrial policies, but they are similar to China’s strategy www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
Neglected Solutions to Our Biggest Problems
Dani Rodrik argues that we already have the tools we need to address the world's biggest economic challenges.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
There are many subnational experiments in which partnerships.. are delivering meaningful economic transformations. These local, place-based initiatives may not look like traditional industrial policies, but they are similar to China’s strategy www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
"The best we managed to create was an online party – one that sounded new, but inherited many old vices, and failed to introduce any meaningful organisational innovation" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"The best we managed to create was an online party – one that sounded new, but inherited many old vices, and failed to introduce any meaningful organisational innovation" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"Deliberative democrats find it easier to design technical systems than build political movements. No algorithm substitutes for that work" eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/1/202...
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"Deliberative democrats find it easier to design technical systems than build political movements. No algorithm substitutes for that work" eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/1/202...
New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures is a research project that explores how evolving national ties and the exchange of ideas and material cultures shape the future of the Indian Ocean region nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...
New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures
A research project that explores how evolving national ties and the exchange of ideas and material cultures shape the future of the Indian Ocean region
nieuweinstituut.nl
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures is a research project that explores how evolving national ties and the exchange of ideas and material cultures shape the future of the Indian Ocean region nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...
What if innovation is about order — about how societies — companies, governments, non-governmental actors — repeatedly try to organise chaos into new forms of coherence, sense-making, and coordination? rainerkattel.substack.com/p/order-and-...
Order and Innovation — Rethinking What Innovation Really Is
What If Innovation Was Never Really About Disruption?
rainerkattel.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What if innovation is about order — about how societies — companies, governments, non-governmental actors — repeatedly try to organise chaos into new forms of coherence, sense-making, and coordination? rainerkattel.substack.com/p/order-and-...
"How can a nation without natural resources think differently in order to survive and thrive? The Unnatural History Museum of Singapore is an exhibition that celebrates our nation’s unconventional history" sdw.designsingapore.org/events/unnat...
Unnatural History Museum of Singapore - Singapore Design Week
Poor in natural resources but rich with creativity — explore some of Singapore’s unnatural solutions designed to help us survive and thrive.
sdw.designsingapore.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
"How can a nation without natural resources think differently in order to survive and thrive? The Unnatural History Museum of Singapore is an exhibition that celebrates our nation’s unconventional history" sdw.designsingapore.org/events/unnat...
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"Governments treat learning as a political performance" and other reasons why governments don't learn paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/w...
Why don’t governments learn, and what can we do about it?
The first in our PoPP group’s series of blog posts reflecting on the connections between established political science/ policy theory insights and a renewed focus on learning from success. Learning…
paulcairney.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Governments treat learning as a political performance" and other reasons why governments don't learn paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/w...
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Our nation-states expect that cities should function in one way. But when you see the strength of informality thrive in markets like these, it becomes impossible to deny that cities can function in another way www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Positions - Tosin Oshinowo et al. - Rethinking Cultural Representation
Within the idea of modernity, there is opportunity to create representation through spatial use.
www.e-flux.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our nation-states expect that cities should function in one way. But when you see the strength of informality thrive in markets like these, it becomes impossible to deny that cities can function in another way www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Our nation-states expect that cities should function in one way. But when you see the strength of informality thrive in markets like these, it becomes impossible to deny that cities can function in another way www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Positions - Tosin Oshinowo et al. - Rethinking Cultural Representation
Within the idea of modernity, there is opportunity to create representation through spatial use.
www.e-flux.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our nation-states expect that cities should function in one way. But when you see the strength of informality thrive in markets like these, it becomes impossible to deny that cities can function in another way www.e-flux.com/architecture...
[Wow] Humanitarian imagery in the age of social media www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - Javier Fernández Contreras et al. - Architecture, Humanitarianism, and Social Media
Social media is transforming the public’s relationship with humanitarianism in two opposing but complementary ways.
www.e-flux.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
[Wow] Humanitarian imagery in the age of social media www.e-flux.com/architecture...
“We don’t compete with GPT on scale,” Talukdar said. “We compete on relevance.” restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt...
ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.
restofworld.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“We don’t compete with GPT on scale,” Talukdar said. “We compete on relevance.” restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt...
Civic Squares flips the narrative of most retrofit programmes, which usually prioritise ‘bang for your buck’ with vague appeals to social impact as a “co-benefit” marthadillon.substack.com/p/communitie...
Communities are stepping up as government retrofit schemes struggle
This autumn, government retrofit schemes get bad news, while community retrofit projects thrive in Birmingham and beyond
marthadillon.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Civic Squares flips the narrative of most retrofit programmes, which usually prioritise ‘bang for your buck’ with vague appeals to social impact as a “co-benefit” marthadillon.substack.com/p/communitie...
Parents fell in love with Alpha school's promise. Then they wanted out www.wired.com/story/ai-tea... @benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Parents fell in love with Alpha school's promise. Then they wanted out www.wired.com/story/ai-tea... @benpatrickwill.bsky.social
"Governments treat learning as a political performance" and other reasons why governments don't learn paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/w...
Why don’t governments learn, and what can we do about it?
The first in our PoPP group’s series of blog posts reflecting on the connections between established political science/ policy theory insights and a renewed focus on learning from success. Learning…
paulcairney.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Governments treat learning as a political performance" and other reasons why governments don't learn paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/w...
Community members use drones & smartphones to capture georeferenced images of waste in public spaces. Images are uploaded to a digital twin where an AI model classifies the waste. The twin simulates spatial accumulation patterns & critical dumping points ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
Community Based Cyber-Physical Systems for Urban Waste Management: A Socio-Technical Innovation Model in the Fenicia Urban Living Lab
This manuscript presents an urban experiment on waste management developed under the Technological Innovation Management Model of the Urban Living Lab (ULL) in Fenicia, Bogotá. The model enables the c...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Community members use drones & smartphones to capture georeferenced images of waste in public spaces. Images are uploaded to a digital twin where an AI model classifies the waste. The twin simulates spatial accumulation patterns & critical dumping points ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
"We found 198 legislative initiatives on squatting, an issue affecting just 0.06% of the housing stock, but only 54 initiatives on social housing, the area at the heart of the crisis" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/is-your...
Is Your Parliament Transparent or Just Performing? Making Public Data Understandable Opens the Door to Citizen Engagement
Political Watch’s “What Our Representatives Do” tool (QHLD) organizes thousands of congressional initiatives into clear, searchable themes, making political priorities visible, comparable, and actiona...
rebootdemocracy.ai
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"We found 198 legislative initiatives on squatting, an issue affecting just 0.06% of the housing stock, but only 54 initiatives on social housing, the area at the heart of the crisis" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/is-your...
[Brill] How should policy actors respond to buzzwords? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How should policy actors respond to buzzwords? Three ways to deal with policy ambiguity - Policy Sciences
Policy Sciences -
link.springer.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
[Brill] How should policy actors respond to buzzwords? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Portfolios for transformation and systemic finance, with a LAC flavour www.territoriosfuturos.org
Cambio Sistémico Multiactor Basado en Territorios.
Impulsamos la transformación sistémica territorial en Latinoamérica mediante colaboración multi-actor, análisis y financiamiento para resolver problemas complejos en lugares clave.
www.territoriosfuturos.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Portfolios for transformation and systemic finance, with a LAC flavour www.territoriosfuturos.org
AI embodies all that is cutting edge and modern, and yet it anchors us to our history. And our history is a messy mix of triumph and shame... AI systems ingest a mixed history of prejudice and progress, injustice and efforts towards equality www.abc.net.au/religion/edw...
AI may be the technology of the future, but it’s trained on our past - ABC Religion & Ethics
AI is anchored in our history — the source from which the vast data oceans are constituted. AI systems trained on our data ingest a mixed history of prejudice and progress, injustice and efforts towar...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
AI embodies all that is cutting edge and modern, and yet it anchors us to our history. And our history is a messy mix of triumph and shame... AI systems ingest a mixed history of prejudice and progress, injustice and efforts towards equality www.abc.net.au/religion/edw...
Her most radical proposal: treat hope as critical urban infrastructure. This includes digital tools, intellectual infrastructure, and social infrastructure (systems enabling collective learning across cities) sundayguardianlive.com/feature/why-...
Why Our Cities Need a Doctor Like Tolu Oni
Dr Tolullah (Tolu) Oni treats cities as her patient. Herlinde Koelbl, the renowned German photographer who created Fascination of Science, a photo art project featuring 60 internationally renowned…
sundayguardianlive.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Her most radical proposal: treat hope as critical urban infrastructure. This includes digital tools, intellectual infrastructure, and social infrastructure (systems enabling collective learning across cities) sundayguardianlive.com/feature/why-...
Repatriating East Africa’s data cseaafrica.org/postdetails/...
Repatriating East Africa’s Data
cseaafrica.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Repatriating East Africa’s data cseaafrica.org/postdetails/...
BLUE: architecture of UN peacekeeping missions nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
BLUE: architecture of UN peacekeeping missions nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...
Foundation for achieving seamless territory seamlessterritory.org
Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory | FAST
seamlessterritory.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Foundation for achieving seamless territory seamlessterritory.org