🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"
Last year, João Antônio Trindade Bastos was watching a football game in Aracaju, Brazil, when military police dragged him from the stadium in front of 10,000 fans. A surveillance camera had misidentified him as a wanted fugitive
Law enforcement doesn’t yet “have the capacity to look at these judicial matters beyond just asking whether a piece of evidence is real or not" restofworld.org/2025/latin-a...
[Somehow i had missed this] The New Formal - "Much of the rhetoric around impact, innovation and inclusion does not account for informality" nextbillion.net/new-formal-l...
Adoption is not just technical—it’s emotional (does it fit the craft’s rhythm?), economic (does it pay off now?), and relational (will this produce value for my peers/community?). Sustainable change must begin where artisans are, not where systems assume they should be.
"Adoption isn’t a simple checklist... Many artisan enterprises—even experienced social businesses—adopt new technologies only after years of ironing out concerns and building community trust" idronline.org/article/tech...
These luxury cloths, which were often favourably compared to Italian velvet, were first described in Kongo during the 16th century. They appear as currencies in both Kongo and the northern kingdom of Loango during the early 17th century www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-...
Data doesn't flow because of standards; standards emerge because data needs to flow. Data sharing thrives when it’s directly tied to a tangible outcome, be it a charged battery, a balanced station, or a compliant ride fermonge.substack.com/p/the-data-s...
"In 2020, Wellington’s city council decided to map 16 kilometers of the city’s streets using GPR and Lidar technologies. They were astounded by what they found. Just in that relatively shorter mileage they identified 100 anomalies"
"By the summer, 350 MSMEs and over 1,100 students had been bluedotted across Dharwad district. Job-seekers were receiving interview calls even before completing their training. Some MSMEs made their first ever digital hires"
“There is an ITI on one side of the road & an MSME on the other—they never met. The students inside don’t know the jobs exist; the employer across the road never walks in. Both are invisible to each other." drive.google.com/file/d/1RV46... India launches "blue dot experiment"
Some companies are experimenting with AI-generated hosts who can hawk products on livestreams without tiring or creating controversy. Their success mirrors that of the virtual news anchors & government communicators, which Indonesians have readily embraced restofworld.org/2025/indones...
"Treat open data like roads or power lines: shared infrastructure that others can build on. That means investing in stewardship or the unglamorous work of cleaning, documenting, versioning, and keeping APIs up" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/powerin...
"AI may be giving you a million prototypes, but if you listen, AI is telling you in quite a painful way that being able to get feedback on your artefacts is much, much more important than the artefacts themselves."
Much hard-earned test and learn wisdom in this post from @duncanjbrown.com
