Publications

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  Building the next generation of digital public services

  05 September 2024 | Computer Weekly

  Despite decades of digitisation of public services, governments have not been sharing the benefits of digitisation with the public.

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  Government as a platform - who pays?

  15 February 2021 | The Bennett Institute for Public Policy

  Having both worked for the UK Government Digital Service in its early days of formulating the ‘Government as a Platform’ (GaaP) approach, Richard Pope and Antonio Weiss outline some of the initial considerations for developing and funding GaaP and invite views about where next to focus their efforts.

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  A working definition of Government as a Platform

  31 May 2020 | Harvard Kennedy School - Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

  Part of the 2019 State of Digital Transformation report.

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  The Online Resolution Service: a prototype of a shared platform for online complaints

  11 May 2020 | Doteveryone

  As part of Doteveryone’s work on redress, and in partnership with the issue resolution service Resolver, we developed a prototype of a new service to help people report negative or harmful things online to the right places.

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  Government as a Platform: How Policy Makers Should Think about the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure

  14 January 2020 | Kennedy School Review

  By David Eaves, Richard Pope and Ben McGuire

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  Playbook: Government as a Platform

  01 November 2019 | Harvard Kennedy School - Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

  A practitioners manual for teams designing and operating government platforms.

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  Tech States: Digital Government, In Practice and On Reflection

  23 September 2019 | Bennett Institute for Public Policy

  Richard Pope and Antonio Weiss join Tanya Filer to talk about core themes in digital government today. They explore the topics that Richard and Antonio intend to investigate as Digital State affiliated researchers at the Bennett Institute, from digitalisation and historical patterns of state reform to user-centricity and its discontents, as well as platform governance and shared national infrastructures.

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  Government as a Platform - the hard problems

  28 March 2019 | digitalHKS

  A review of some of the emerging political, ethical, governance and technical challenges of Government as a Platform

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  Richard Pope - Ensuring a more open society in the digital age by putting power back in the hands of citizens and consumers

  01 September 2018 | Offscreen Magazine

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  A Right to the Digital City

  28 March 2018 | Medium.com

  A response to the Smart London ‘new deal for city data’ consultation, cowritten with Andrew Eland

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  Building a Bicycle Barometer

  21 May 2013 | IEEE Spectrum

  An interview with IEEE Spectrum Magazine about building a bicycle barometer.