This is such a thoughtful collection spanning so many areas. Your point about the lack of holistic digital government transformation in the US really resonated - its startling how far behind we are compared to Estonia tbh. I wonder though if decentralized governance might actualy be adaptive, since local experiments like Boston MONUM could iterate faster than national strategies. When I worked with a city innovation team, federal mandates often slowed our best ideas.
There's certainly value in having decentralized and/or autonomous teams. But my issue is with both the scope that they're allowed to pursue (primarily working within existing bounds/systems rather than embarking on 'missions' or moonshots) and the lack of vision of what can be asked of tech/digitization.
I really need to do a longer write-up on Substack of my mental model for government digital transformation. But for now, I've illustrated it here: https://civictransformation.com/framework#phases
This is such a thoughtful collection spanning so many areas. Your point about the lack of holistic digital government transformation in the US really resonated - its startling how far behind we are compared to Estonia tbh. I wonder though if decentralized governance might actualy be adaptive, since local experiments like Boston MONUM could iterate faster than national strategies. When I worked with a city innovation team, federal mandates often slowed our best ideas.
Appreciate the kind note.
There's certainly value in having decentralized and/or autonomous teams. But my issue is with both the scope that they're allowed to pursue (primarily working within existing bounds/systems rather than embarking on 'missions' or moonshots) and the lack of vision of what can be asked of tech/digitization.
I really need to do a longer write-up on Substack of my mental model for government digital transformation. But for now, I've illustrated it here: https://civictransformation.com/framework#phases
There's so much in here I would love to hear more about!