Tag: government
Death by a thousand cuts and the 28th Amendment
Why The Economist hates wealth taxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8mfqPNdENw "I want to speak to you now, somebody who is not incredibly rich, but has a bit of money, and is opposed to wealth taxation of the very rich. And I want to explain to you what is going to happen from here. Okay, we have increasingly, in this country, in America, in the...
On E-Governance
By: Raquisha Givens, Hussain Punjani, Andrew Schwegler, Savannah ViarOriginally published: November 21, 2013 It has been overwhelming stated that our world is becoming smaller with the use of technology. With the click of a mouse we can connect to people on the other side of the world. Technology has allowed the Earth community as a...
On Portugal's Coming Presidential Elections
In just under a week, Portugal will be undergoing this year's Presidential Elections, in which the next president will be chosen. And what a ridiculous spectacle - to not say the other word that is in my mind - they are already.
Naturalization Periods and Dutch Politics
The, already twice fallen, Dutch government is still trying to get their coalition plans moving forward. Part of the agreement was increasing the minimum period one needs to wait before being allowed to apply for naturalization, from 5 to 10 years.
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server?
Reflecting on some of the hurdles for procuring a Fediverse instance for the US Government. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, but is it worthwhile?
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse
Joe Biden's official account is now connected to the Fediverse, thanks to Threads. We'll see if anything comes of it.
Changing Phone Numbers Is Hard
Changing phone number within the same country is hard. But it is definitely not as hard as when changing to a foreign number. If you've ever moved abroad or live abroad, and wanted to mostly ditch your previous phone number, you know what I am talking about.
When Does Abroad Stop Feeling Like Abroad?
The title of this post is just a question I added to my impossible list back in September 2022. It has been sitting there since. After making a little cleanup to the page today, I thought: I really want to develop this feeling a bit more, and explain it better, as well as how I feel in this moment regarding my plans for "living abroad".
An Update to My DigiD Saga and Driving Licenses
Some time ago, I wrote an article where I essentially complained and layed out the issues I have had with the Dutch digital identification (DigiD) system as a foreigner. In the meanwhile, there have been a few minor updates, and some other things that changed in my understanding. Hence, this new article.
The Framework laptop and the world machine
My new laptop shows the extent to which the world in connected.
Issues With DigiD as a Foreigner
When Wouter published an article on government website design mistakes, I immediately thought: I have a very similar topic in the back of my mind that has bothered me since I moved to The Netherlands. It is not related to a website per se, but to a service that is used to login into many public services: the DigiD.
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The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
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The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
critical-conversations-american-indian-worldview-and-the-twinned-cosmos-of-indigenous-america-transcript-barbara-alice-mann-onondawaga-bear-clan-and-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation
The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
critical-conversations-american-indian-worldview-and-the-twinned-cosmos-of-indigenous-america-transcript-barbara-alice-mann-onondawaga-bear-clan-and-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation
The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
critical-conversations-american-indian-worldview-and-the-twinned-cosmos-of-indigenous-america-transcript-barbara-alice-mann-onondawaga-bear-clan-and-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation
The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
The Future of Fringe
Puppeteer Chris Carlson, currently running for California governor, might be the long-shot political candidate the world needs in 2018. Please keep running.
What is Good Design?
Exploring good design principles through the lens of the UK Government Digital Service website
Wikileaks is about capitalist paradigm shift, not single government overthrow
Open data at data.gov.uk
The British equivalent to Obama’s data.gov opened today. Over at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick points out the scale of the ambition involved: At launch, Data.gov.uk has nearly 3,000 data sets available for developers to build mashups with. The U.S. site, Data.gov, has less than 1,000 data sets today. […][Unlike the US equivalent, the site] includes 22 military data sets at launch, including one called Suicide and Open Verdict Deaths in the U.K. Regular Armed Forces. However, these are ra
Public IT project hell: let’s make government work for us
Why does it cost $235 million to integrate a few IT systems? Johannes Ernst contrasts the Yahoo/Facebook deep integration announcement with the US government’s announcement that they will spend $235 million on integrating incompatible healthcare IT systems, and asks some pertinent questions: I assume we all agree that an environment in which leading-edge companies innovate on their own to the benefit of their customers is better than one in which the government has to spend large amounts of mo
Amerikanische Regierung startet „Open Identity Pilotprogramm“
Aus der offiziellen Presseerklärung: Washington, D.C. — September 9, 2009 — Ten industry leaders — Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems — announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government — government that is transparent, participatory, and collaborative....
The mechanics of "open"
Since we started Elgg, I've always kept a very open philosophy about how the software should work. From the human perspective, we wanted it to be as inclusive as possible, with an easy-to-use interface and innards that allowed you to do very technical things (like, in Elgg 0.x, republishing aggregated RSS) with very little knowhow. From the organizational perspective, we didn't want there to be a barrier to entry; we released it under the GNU Public License and allowed anyone to download and ins