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Mar 24

"Products increasingly becoming services" under digital conditions - not just library services

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In 1966, media futurist Marshall McLuhan envisioned a form of digital research eerily similar to the customized queries now answered by AI. Then he makes a surprising admission about why he studies technological change—with a lesson I think many need to hear.

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It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

NPR

@NPR

Mar 24

In just 8 minutes, a professor created a deepfake video of himself giving a lecture by feeding an AI app a selfie and voice clip. It cost $11 to make. He's warning that the risks from this technology are not in the distant future — they're already here.

npr.org

Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text, and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.

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Universität Konstanz

Mar 23

Tandem-Fellowship für digitale Hochschullehre für Prof.

und Dr. Susanne Brüggen im Team Hochschuldidaktik der #UniKonstanz: t1p.de/7axur

Fabienne Maron

@FabienneMaron

Mar 23

📢 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝗳𝗼𝗿-𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗚𝗣𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! If you're interested in presenting your research, submit your papers through the conference website now. Visit the website here: egpa-conference2023.org #EGPA2023

📕In this report

discusses how #DigitalService teams bring "service designers" into government to transform #ServiceDelivery. 🎯It focuses on how human centricity can help to improve government agility. 👉europa.eu/!F9XVCT

@Georges_Lobo

@unikonstanz

@NAPAwash

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wissenschaftskommunikation.de

Mar 21

I learned how to use a Science Escape Room exercise for seminar settings: Each group received a sealed letter w/ three tasks corresponding to the correct code to open the classroom door at the end of the session. Everyone was engaged & applied today's class knowledge to 'escape'.

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Every format includes a description, costs, and most important examples. Here is one that was new to me: Famelab:

FameLab

3 Minuten, eine Bühne und die Chance auf ewigen Ruhm: Das FameLab ist ein Wettbewerb für junge Forschende, die mit ihrer Wissenschaft begeistern wollen. Idee „Beim Famelab treten wortgewandte...

Second aha moment of the day: there are so many different ways how to communicate our results to an interested public. Here are 100 different formats for science communication:

wissenschaftskommunikation.de

Wissenschaftskommunikation.de

Ein Portal für all diejenigen, die Wissenschaft kommunizieren.

First aha moment of the day: the German basic law states in Art 14(2) GG that „Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen“ - Ownership obligates. At the same time, its use should serve the public good. - same is true for knowledge 🤯

Today: science communication seminar

on how to structure science communication, write and identify quality texts for public consumption.

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Have to share this gem: Skillful #writing of an awful paper" pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac

Mariana Mazzucato: UK budget should avoid austerity

Mariana Mazzucato

@MazzucatoM

Mar 15

The consulting industry's business model relies on winning the next contract. There is no incentive to invest in the ‘clients’ capability to thrive without them, which is a fundamental conflict of interest.

@BloombergTV

@flacqua

on my book #TheBigCon.

bloomberg.com

UCL Professor Mariana Mazzucato discusses the relationship between the consulting industry, modern capitalism and government. She speaks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on "Bloomberg Surveillance:...

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Mar 13

How can we evaluate #agile teaching practices & #eduscrum in higher education? We developed a cartographic stakeholder model first to understand who needs what in my

project funded by

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Scrum in der Lehre in den Verwaltungswissenschaften. Tolles Projekt von @InesMergel polver.uni-konstanz.de/mergel/team/te #scrum #hochschule40 #twittercampus

Elon Musk Has Broken Disaster-Response Twitter

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

Mar 12

"Before Elon Musk bought it last fall, before it was overrun with scammy ads, before it amplified fake personas, and before its engineers were told to get more eyeballs on the owner’s tweets, Twitter was useful in saving lives,"

@juliettekayyem

writes:

theatlantic.com

The social-media platform’s crisis has become a real-world crisis.

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John M. Kamensky

@JMKamensky

Mar 10

NEW OMB GUIDANCE: What does “collaborative governance” look like in action? OMB describes how the cross-agency #infrastructure permitting process promotes “timely and sound delivery” of major projects under the Bipartisan Infra Law + a tracking dashboard - bit.ly/3ZZkLOC

Mar 10

We are looking for experts to join our stakeholder panel: opportunity to learn and be part of a research environment that looks into digital service & library innovations:

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LibrarIN_eu

@LibrarIN_eu

Mar 6

Are you experienced in social #innovation, value #cocreation & demand-driven design of #library services? We're looking for experts to join our stakeholder panel! Deadline for applications

March 22nd #librarin_eu

Mar 8

Academic women around the world who need to hear this on international women's day (and really every day): I just learned how to say no without saying now. Instead, express the need that keeps you from saying yes, don't say no. (NVC - Marshall Rosenberg)

Forget fun fonts. A new study finds formal government communications can be more effective.

Mar 7

Counterintuitively, people are more likely to act when messages they receive from the government appear formal in wording and design. In a new study, HKS researchers from the People Lab join other collaborators to explore this “Formality Effect"

hks.harvard.edu

HKS People Lab researchers and collaborators find a counterintuitive “Formality Effect” in which subjects associate formality with credibility and importance—leading them to act.

Mar 4

Given that +900 German delegations have visited Estonia so far, we thought about what German public administrations can actually learn from the Estonian digital transformation & apply it at home. An original short article in German, translated here: inesmergel.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/new

Where Digital Payments, Even for a 10-Cent Chai, Are Colossal in Scale

Mar 2

India's digital payment system: Where Digital Payments, Even for a 10-Cent Chai, Are Colossal in Scale

nytimes.com

India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy.

Richard Pope @richardjpope@mastodon.me.uk

@richardjpope

Mar 1

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A reworking of the XKCD open-source cartoon showing digital public services supported by proof of benefit letters

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The age of cargo cult Agile must end.

Feb 22

Important summary and corrections of some of the misconceptions of agile: jchyip.medium.com/the-age-of-car I would also add that in government we are mixing up agile with responsive and quick/fast results. One should be reserved for emergency management and the other not necessarily used:

jchyip.medium.com

Via LinkedIn, I learned about an article called “The age of Agile must end” by Michael Burnett, and I’ve since seen it pop up again in…

Feb 22

My article "Agile: A New Way of Governing" co-authored w/ Andy Whitford & Sukumar Ganapati in

@PAReview

was among the top cited articles in 2021-2022 & as Wiley said, "generated immediate impact in your community"! Here is the link to the article: lnkd.in/ea4NWCHe

Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re...

Mariana Mazzucato

@MazzucatoM

Feb 14

Consultancies know less than they claim, cost more than they seem to, and — over the long term — prevent the public sector developing in-house capabilities. From my

interview with

on my new book with

- The Big Con.

The economist argues that consultants are hobbling the state’s ability to perform the role of economic motor

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EmilyTav

@EmilyTav

Feb 14

I am *extremely* here for this, and unreasonably excited to read this. Had a front row seat to *exactly* this countless times while I was in government. I look forward to finding a place for this in my syllabus 🤗

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Tony Tassell

@TonyTassell

Feb 13

Tremendous @MazzucatoM interview on how consultancies like McKinsey, Bain, Boston and the BIg 4 #accounting firms are hobbling governments -by @henrymance ft.com/content/fb1254

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Gabriella "Biella" Coleman

@BiellaColeman

Feb 12

If you are asking people to do work with no credit or $ it should come as no surprise when they turn you down. Please, don't be that person, non-profit or institute.

Feb 9

Today: guest lecture at Yonsei University in South Korea introducing agile governance to my colleague Jae Moon's MPA students. Timely, given that South Korean president Yoon just announced that his administration will become more agile and flexible: lnkd.in/eYKESRF7

and David Eaves

have been named Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows for their project "Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age". Full story: t1p.de/cizcx

and David Eaves

have been named Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows for their project Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age. Press release (in German): t1p.de/z1mam

Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

@IIPP_UCL

Feb 3

Congratulations to IIPP Deputy Director

@daeaves

, who has been named as one of two Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows with the

Award-winning: Open access materials to teach digital skills in

for their project 'Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age'. Read our story ➡️

ucl.ac.uk

David Eaves, UCL IIPP Deputy Director and Associate Professor in Digital Government, has been named as one of two Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows.

CTG UAlbany

@CTGUAlbany

Feb 3

Thrilled with our inaugural Faculty Fellows event! Excellent discussion with

& #UAlbany #Communication Dept. colleagues. Outstanding keynote by

on #DigitalTransformation & #AgileGovernment.

Opinion | How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy

Feb 1

How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy

nytimes.com

The greatest threat A.I. may present is its ability to replace humans in lobbying.

Jan 23

Danke für die Förderung! Bin sehr gespannt auf die Austausche und freue mich über die Möglichkeit meine Vorlesungsdidaktik neu zu denken 🙏

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Stifterverband

@stifterverband

Jan 23

Digitale Hochschullehre: Zusammen mit dem @mwk__bw fördern wir 14 Hochschul-Tandems mit je maximal 50.000 Euro. Petra #Olschowski: „Mit dem Programm unterstützen wir die Hochschulen dabei, ihre digitalen Lehr-Konzepte zu sichern und weiterzuentwickeln.“ buff.ly/3XvVfzQ

Jan 23

Wir werden uns auf deeper learning Möglichkeiten in Grossveranstaltungen im verwaltungswissenschaftlichen Bereich fokussieren.

Yay! Susanne Brüggen und ich haben Fellowships für Lehrnnovationen Baden-Württemberg | Stifterverband erhalten: stifterverband.org/bwdigifellows cc

@Konstanz_Pol_PA

Fellowships für Lehrinnovationen und Unterstützungsangebote in der digitalen Hochschullehre

stifterverband.org

In case you are considering to apply, our project website is now online: librarin.eu

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Jan 11

We are looking to hire a postdoc to conduct the research for our new EU Horizon 2020 project on digital innovations in public services (digital transformation, innovation labs, and innovation networks). Job ads here: lnkd.in/eNbwfSGW

and lnkd.in/eAzkVQRx

Are Cities Too Reliant on Twitter?

Jan 14

Twitter has become a key communication tool for government agencies. The recent suspension of the DC Metrobus account shows the perils. bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via

@citylab

bloomberg.com

Social media platforms have become key communication tools for government agencies. The recent suspension of the DC Metrobus account shows the perils.