A Guide To The New Field Of Software Politics

2016 was the year it became impossible to ignore the power software exerts on society. Today, in 2018, we can start to identify the companies and…

Definitions: government-as-a-platform (a proposal)

This is the second of several posts about definitions. The previous one looked at the range of ways people have been talking about government-as-a-platform to date. This blog post is an attempt to come up with a single working definition of…

Definitions: quotes and themes on ‘government-as-a-platform’

Written by Richard Pope and Malika Mehrotra HKS MPP 2020

We’ve been looking at how people have talked about the idea of government as a platform since the original Tim O’Reilly article in 2011…

The politics of making it easier to design digital services

A couple of weeks ago I asked on Twitter if there was a term in service design for the explicit, political choice to make something harder to do through sub-optimal implementation.