Believelander in DC helping governments serve people better. Not here anymore — moved to @aaronsnow.net on https://teapaw.org/t.co/fdIoig8gDY
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It was an honor to serve as CEO of the Canadian Digital Service. Some reflections on @CDS_GC's first four years: medium.com/@aaronsnow/the-ca…
“Le merde est utilisé pour fertiliser la croissance des années suivantes.”
A friend introduced me to this excellent New Year sentiment, which translates roughly to:
“The manure of shit years is used to fertilize the growth of the next.”
May our 2024 be so filled. HNY, y'all.
For folks who don't know the backstory:
About 200 years before Jesus, the Jews were subjects of an empire whose ruler respected their cultural and religious freedom. That lasted for ~25 years.
Then the empire's leadership changed.
The new leader took all that away … (1/2)
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🎶 Butter me up
and know you're enough
To sauté me good
- my 17yo just now, flipping onions & spinach on the pan for his special grilled cheese sandwiches
He says sorry-not-sorry @JasonIsbell
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An incredible example of why government services should be open source
By funding this: washingtonpost.com/business/…
Check out this photo. With Fergus, that's Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal leader PM Justin Trudeau — polar opposite foes. But per tradition, they led Fergus down the aisle and into the Speaker's chair together, literally arm in arm, smiling and laughing.
ALT A photo from the linked CBC article, of Pierre Poilievre, Greg Fergus, and Justin Trudeau, arm in arm, smiling, during today's ceremony installing Fergus as Speaker of Canada's House of Commons
At least our neighbors have a new Speaker of the House!
And he's terrific. An historic choice, well deserved. Congratulations, Mr. Speaker @GregFergus.
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At least our neighbors have a new Speaker of the House!
And he's terrific. An historic choice, well deserved. Congratulations, Mr. Speaker @GregFergus.
#Breaking: Liberal MP Greg Fergus has been elected the next Speaker of the House of Commons.
Fergus pitched improving decorum in the Commons — something past Speakers have also promised with little success. cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vot…
Is there any country on earth that punches itself in the face quite the way we do when we threaten or actually enact government shutdowns?
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A good, important read about the aspirations vs. realities of federal child care subsidies from my colleagues here at @BeeckCenter
🧵Currently only 2m of 12m eligible children in the US receive the child care subsidies due to them. In our new report, we set out a way for federal government and states to come together to show how this is entirely preventable. beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/b…
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Hey, I wrote a thing in the Ottawa Citizen today, about what Canada's new Citizen Services ministry can learn from Ukraine's resounding success in becoming a truly digital government. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/sn…
Anonymous IT officials calling GSA's US Notify pilot a “small niche project” is a terrible look, twice over.
Firstly, is it small or niche if it saves government $45 million a year? That's what UK's Notify service does for them, while also making people's experiences with (1/)
Scoop: Key parts of the Biden admin tech agenda have stalled due to misalignment and major disagreements between top federal IT officials causing massive delays to key digital projects, according to four Biden officials familiar with the matter. @fedscoop
fedscoop.com/top-biden-tech-…
digital government better in important ways. A good centralized notifications service for government may not be important to IT officials, but it's important to the customer experience of the end users they're supposed to be serving. public.digital/2023/03/21/th… (2/)
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100 million messages sent!
@CDS_GC's GCNotify shows what a small team can do to make services a little better and more transparent; and to help the rest of the civil service work a little better, faster, easier.
Government's toolkit matters.
Congratulations, team 💥🎉
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I'm not replacing my house's cement foundation to store a day's worth of backup power but I would 100% build a Stonehenge in my back yard made of this stuff science.org/content/article/…
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Got a civtech/govtech fail story? Oh yes you do. Here comes @BeeckCenter's second annual FailFest. Join us next Wed (5/17) for an open-mic night of off-the-record woe-sharing. eventbrite.com/e/failfest-at…
What's a fail fest? A quick explainer from last year's event: teapaw.org/aaronsnow/status/15263…
#CfASummit goers: join us for N underground-yet-epic public interest tech Fail Fest, Tuesday, 9pm to midnight. Chatham House Rules. RSVP below. What’s a fail fest you ask? Thread on …
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We've all accepted that email inboxes are personal to-do lists that other people can arbitrarily add to, right?
Is there an email client that lets you reorder the messages in your inbox manually, like you can with almost any to-do list? (I don't mean a different "sort-by" field; I mean "keep the messages I haven't yet dealt with in the order I specify)