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Reconstituting Governance

This past weekend I did something that I hadn’t done since I was in college: I read the constitution. Not just the …

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[Review] Switch

Chip and Dan Heath’s Switch is propaganda manual for the social activist. If your job, like mine, is to present people with …

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Hacia una Gobernanza Participativa

Ha sido difícil identificar cómo se maneja la agenda del gobierno digital. La Secretaría de Función Pública tiene su Unidad de Gobierno …

This Week in Transparency

Links Two must-read posts for entrepreneurs launching for-profit “civic startups.” First, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures partner, Charlie O’Donnell describes his participation as the …

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[Review] First Stop in the New World

Why this explosion of English-language books about Mexico City by Americans after decades of disregard? Ironically, it has much to do with the city’s cultural and economic rise over the past five to ten years. I say ‘ironically’ because none of the three above-mentioned authors chart the city’s progress.

[Review] Citizenville

If you’re willing to wade through the predictable, tired applause lines of the past few years of TED talks, then Citizenville offers readers an interesting glimpse of some of the obstacles that stand in the way of bringing innovation to government.

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[Review] Checklist Manifesto

The Checklist Manifesto is like a modern rock album from the 1990s: it’s got two or three solid tracks, but the rest is filler to sell CDs. There’s no reason to read the book in order to be convinced of the importance of using checklists.