Explores how governments might use Universal Basic Income (UBI) and highly immersive games to address societal inequality and unrest caused by AI-driven economic shifts.
Announcing the 2024 Ihaka Lectures series, featuring talks on literate programming, data journalism, and using R in government.
A GitHub engineer reflects on eight years of impactful projects, including GeoJSON rendering, government outreach, and GitHub Pages improvements.
Analyzes the challenges of using data science and scientific advice for Covid-19 policy, comparing it to the gap between scientists and policymakers.
Explains why government agencies often fail with their first open source project due to cultural and procedural mismatches.
A former government technologist argues for a strong White House open source policy to boost innovation, efficiency, and taxpayer ROI in federal IT.
A guide for government employees on participating in and contributing to open source software projects.
The CFPB accepted a typo fix from an open-source developer on GitHub, marking the first direct public collaboration on federal government code.
Analyzes why WordPress has low adoption in government despite its market dominance, focusing on perception issues vs. technical capabilities.
