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Revitalizing the Policy Community. Research, training, and convening for Today's Policy Professionals. Tweets by @jonathan_craft

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16 Dec 2025
Bianca Wiley with an incisive read "Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism". policyready.ca/policymaking-… 2025s final post for Policymaking Today! #canpoli #digitalgov #gcdigital

Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers

By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes:   “Tech critics become...

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Governance Journal@Gov_Journal
25 Nov 2025
THE 2026 CHARLES H. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (See thread below and attached screenshot for nomination instructions):
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Rachel Wernick with Rethinking Medium Term Planning: an essential tool for policy relevance” for the policy making today series policyready.ca/policymaking-… #canpoli #strategy #capacity

Rethinking Medium Term Planning: an essential tool for policy relevance — Resources for today's...

By Rachel Wernick I was struck by an interview with Yuval Noah Harari I listened to recently.  Harari became known for his book Sapiens that distils thousands of years of history into an engaging...

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Not Just Putting Out Fires: Building Capacity for Long-Term Public Governance. Nicholas Chesterley shares insights on how governments can avoid short-term traps & encourage future-focused policies #canpoli #policy #government policyready.ca/policymaking-…

Not Just Putting Out Fires: Building Capacity for Long-Term Public Governance — Resources for...

By Nicholas Chesterley In the 1930s and 40s President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered around thirty fireside chats. These were a series of radio addresses on the Great Depression and World War II...

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What's holding back policy innovation in Canada's public service? Views from senior policy leaders in Part I of 'Battling the Deep Status Quo'. From the policymaking today convening in Ottawa policyready.ca/policymaking-… #canpoli #reform #modernization

Battling the Deep Status Quo: Policy Innovation in Canada’s Public Service  (Part I) — Resources...

by Sharon Ayele & Jonathan Craft

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Innovative policymaking: from destination to discipline. Neil Bower on 'avoiding pilotitus' with the latest policymaking today post. policyready.ca/policymaking-… #government #innovation #design #canpoli
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Policy professionals care about policy coherence but is it getting harder to achieve? @ashleighweeden & co with a new post for Policymaking Today "Addressing Dis-Connected Policy in the Age of Incoherence". #policy #GC #publicadmin #government policyready.ca/policymaking-…

Addressing Dis-Connected Policy in the Age of Incoherence — Resources for today's policymakers

By: S. Ashleigh Weeden, Wayne Kelly, Joel Templeman It might seem self-evident, but it is essential to start any discussion about contemporary policy making with the reminder that digital technolog...

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GovTech Research@GovTechResearch
21 Jan 2025
UK Government publishes "A Blueprint for Modern Digital Government" gov.uk/government/publicatio… UK led the world in digital government when GDS was founded now it is determined to regain that leadership
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25 Sep 2024
Replying to @NoahZon
@NoahZon on golden handcuffs, invisible fences, & how to get to smarter revolving doors for better policymaking. The latest in the Policy Making Today series policyready.ca/policymaking-… #publicpolicy #canpoli #capacity #reform

When revolving doors are good, actually — Resources for today's policymakers

Author: Noah Zon

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Public Service Culture, Risk Management and Governance: The Prerequisite of Effective Strategic Governance to Realizing Our Digital Ambition cgai.ca/public_service_cultu… #digitalgov #gcdigitsl

Public Service Culture, Risk Management and Governance: The Prerequisite of Effective Strategic...

All organizations, whether public or private sector, have an aggregate risk profile that can be measured between low to high. As the aggregate risk increases over time, eventually it will result in...

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PA Journal@journal_pa
17 Jul 2024
Today we're highlighting another Call for Papers open at Public Administration! "Unveiling the Dynamics of Digital Transformation in Public Administrations" guest edited by @MilaGasco @albertmeijer @InesMergel Jae Moon & @gretanasi is accepting proposals until Sept 1st. 1/3
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Civil Service World@CSWnews
24 Jun 2024
Building trust goes beyond the 'yes'. Learn about building relationships with new ministers from the wisdom of former senior civil servants Johnathan Slater, Alex Thomas, and Kavian Brown from @Baringa. civilserviceworld.com/in-dep…

'You’ve got to establish yourself as credible. That doesn’t always involve saying yes': How to...

CSW convenes an expert panel to discuss how the civil service can prepare for what's going to happen after the election

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Geoff Mulgan@geoffmulgan
20 Jun 2024
I'll be co hosting a roundtable on Future Generations and Institutional Design with Chris Taylor/sparc & tial.org, Mon 15 July 2024, 13.30-15.00 UK time, in-person and online @derekwalker, Roman Kznaric, @CatTullyFOH & more. Tickets here: rb.gy/e3imvs
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New Policymaking Today post based on a recent convening on creativity & policymaking. It was refreshing to think about policy practice from a new vantage point.  How are you creative in policymaking? Where does creativity intersect with policymaking? policyready.ca/policymaking-…

Creativity and Policymaking — Resources for today's policymakers

Authors: Laura Nelson-Hamilton, Daphnée Nostrome, Jonathan Craft When thinking about creativity, the complex, rules based, process heavy and incremental world of policymaking may not spring to mind....

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New post from @digitaldaph for the @policyready blog Policy Making Today. Check out ‘Rethinking Policy: Harnessing Creative Approaches' policyready.ca/policymaking-…
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giulio quaggiotto@gquaggiotto
3 Jun 2024
How ready is your org for systemic design? by @EmiliaSaa drive.google.com/file/d/1_uW… (like the "systemic void" label)
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AJPA@AusJPA
27 May 2024
📣🆕Early View❗️ Should Humphrey Appleby incorporate ChatGPT in policy briefs to ministers❓ @DanielCasey_CBR discusses the findings of a student task (using ChatGPT to write a policy brief) & the role of ChatGPT in public policy teaching/assessment👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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