Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 2nd from 22:58 to 12:59:

• GovTech is Not Broken | Civic Innovations – When we talk about the challenges that face governments in acquiring and implementing new technology, the conversation eventually winds around to the procurement process. That’s when things…
• Some Principles of Human-Centered Computing – From Perspectives On Cognitive Task Analysis: Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice (emphasis mine) The Aretha Franklin Principle Do not devalue the human to justify the machine.…
• “Elegant Tools” with Facebook, GDS, Orange and OpenIdeo – Last night I went to an event called “Elegant Tools” which was hosted by Facebook in the swanky surrounds of the St Pancras Renaissance, which was also once the location for a great…
• Wisconsin Republicans propose limiting public access to records – Chicago Tribune – Nearly all records created by state lawmakers, including bill drafts and communications with staff, would not be subject to the Wisconsin open records law under a sweeping surprise change Republicans…
• why don’t we just terraform the earth? – In the past few years, science has lurched closer to envisioning habitable Mars, though at the moment estimates for creating breathable oxygen range from hundreds to 100,000 years in the future, the…
• Imgur – Nintendo/Sony PlayStation prototype
• Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design – Engineers and designers who refined Healthcare.gov are on a mission to tame the government’s unruly digital presence.
  After the disastrous launch of…
• Farewell to America | Gary Younge – For the past couple of years the summers, like hurricanes, have had names. Not single names like Katrina or Floyd – but full names like Trayvon Martin or…