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InState of the FuturebyGavin Freeguard·Oct 14Newsletter #2: Devo, digital, Data BitesAh, autumn. Mists and mellow fruitfulness, and all that. Or at least it was before climate change.
InState of the FuturebyGavin Freeguard·Oct 6NEW PROJECT: Automatic Voter Registration — how can data deliver it?I’m delighted to announce that State of the Future has received a grant (£10,000) from the UK Democracy Fund for a project on ‘Automatic…
InState of the FuturebyGavin Freeguard·Jul 30The State of the Present: Andy Burnham’s new governmentIn common with lots of other policy people in recent weeks, I’ve been reading Head North, the (very readable) book by new Prime Minister…A response icon1A response icon1
David Rau·Apr 7AI Citation Registries Are Infrastructure, Not SoftwareWhy AI systems require a persistent, machine-readable layer — not applications — to preserve authority
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Rich Brown·May 1, 2025Public Data, Private PowerScraping Government Sites for AdvantageA response icon1A response icon1
Congressional Communities·Jan 31, 2025Featured Article: Congressional District Geography Workbook (119th Congress) — An Interactive Tool…Today’s featured CRS article, “Congressional District Geography Workbook (119th Congress): An Interactive Tool for Congressional Users,”…
Milda Aksamitauskas·Nov 13, 2024Should a government form ask for your race?I became white when I moved to the United States in 1998. Until then, I had always simply thought of myself as Lithuanian, but in my new…
Milda Aksamitauskas·Nov 13, 2024Letter to the data leadersWhen I first started in my role as the chief data officer (CDO) at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, I spoke with attorneys, special…