DPI-662: Digital Government

The relative financial health of Johannesburg and Cape Town; and four other things Open Data taught me this week

Open Data is a term that has quietly added itself to the messy jumble of ideas that make up my general knowledge. In South Africa openness…

Open letter to the Mayor of Johannesburg

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Mr. Mayor,

Government Platforms — the Case of Healthcare

Platforms are powerful tools that many times make the difference. They might start as a simple software, protocol or even a device, but then evolve to be the ground upon which other elements are built. They essentially create the proper environment…

Annoying Surveys as a Useful Government Platform

What do Deloitte consultants, presidential campaign interns, federal government economic policy analysts, and your grandmother all have in common (other than probably [hopefully?] voting for Hillary Clinton this November 8th)? Most of them…

Platform in Chilecon Valley

When I think of platform I think of:

and the pain it will definitely cause to both my wallet and my feet. It can also damage my pride if I fall in public which is highly probable.

Platform and Government: reflexions

Lets start with the basics. What is a platform? Sounds easy right? Well it appears it’s not that simple. There are multiple definitions out there and specialists do not seem to agree on everything. That being said, a negotiation slash coding genius hiding at HKS as a…

The importance of platforms — especially in government

Battery. iPhone. iOS. Tinder. Uber. Gasoline. Road.

How are these things related to each other?

Besides the fact that you might have used all of them to go on a date last weekend, they…

Common Core as Government Platform

If you’re anything like me, you’ve long been confused about the differences between words like curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, standards, and all sorts of other teacher jargon. Which terms mean the same thing, I’ve wondered? What are their relationships with one…

How Platform Thinking is Revolutionizing Public Service Delivery in Big Cities: Seoul’s Open Data Initiative

In March 2016, I took a group of fellow Stanford Business School students on a trip to South Korea: the tech hub of Asia, home of Samsung and LG…