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Derek Alton

Civic Punk — a Definition

By @DerekAlton

Aug 4

Aug 4

Gov AI, Geoff Mulgan and India’s Public Service

Weeknote: Jan 5, 2024

Jan 22

Jan 22

Derek’s Goals for Q1–2024

Weeknote: Jan 5, 2024

Jan 14

Jan 14

Weeknotes — Sept. 15th

What are Weeknotes:

Oct 7, 2023

Oct 7, 2023

Weeknotes — Sept. 1st, 2023

Wales

Oct 7, 2023

Oct 7, 2023

The Municipal Innovation Pilot Project: A Retrospective

Recently I wrote a twitter thread on my thoughts on government and open source. It got me thinking about how I always meant to sit down and…

May 21, 2022

May 21, 2022

5 Lessons from building global communities of practice for governments

Public servants all over the world are doing basically the same thing, so how can we stop reinventing the wheel and instead better share…

Apr 19, 2022

A graph with energy and sustainability on the y axis and five stages listed on the x axis. The first stage is potential which see’s a rise in energy peaking at the second stage of forming. Here it drops before rising through maturity and peaking at self sustaining. The final stage is transformation and marks the closing of the community. There is a second line marking the input needed for the community, it starts high in stage 1 and then drops at each of the next stages before rising at the end.

Apr 19, 2022

What is Digital Government Transformation?

Recently, I have had lots of people (from friends and family to work colleagues) ask me what does this whole digital government…

Mar 23, 2022

Mar 23, 2022

Thank you for this Cate, I loved reading this and have flagged your thesis for future reading.

The question I have though is that everyone I have talked to working in government for the last 5 years has said the biggest problems with…

Jan 6, 2022

Jan 6, 2022

Building a framework to grow ecosystems… a rough rough draft.

I have been sitting on this for a while try develop and re-work it, and I figure maybe its best to just put a draft out and get feedback…

Sep 7, 2021

Sep 7, 2021

Derek Alton

Derek Alton

Community Animator, Democratic Reformer and Social Innovation Experimenter. Currently working for the Digital Collaboration Division in the Government of Canada

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