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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Stop funding fictional target architecture blueprints and start funding empowered, long-lived teams. The traditional, rigid approach is too slow for the age of AI and will never solve your real-world legacy tech problems. It’s time to trade the fiction for empowered teams and clear principles.

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty

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The issue is linked to a CRA systems update that has resulted in some tax-slip providers running into challenges when uploading taxpayers’ data to the government’s secure portal

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We’re six weeks into a new US government administration. The scale of deliberate and gleeful destruction of US state capacity on the part of the Trump administration is hard to process. As someone who writes about public service excellence it’s heartbreaking to hear so many stories of people’s careers, teams, and accomplishments being ripped apart. In my specific field of government tech, it was jaw-dropping to learn this past week that the US’s best digital government teams are being fired.