Applying computer programming techniques to government:
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“Hacking” is not just for technologists. “Hacks” include innovations in policy, architecture, organizational process, art and design, and educational materials, as well as new software and technologies.
An innovative way to fix government, or computer programmer hubris finding a new venue? I suppose it’s what we used to call a brainstorming session with a lot of expertise crossover. Still, they really seem to think this is an operational problem, and not a problem with ideological rigidity, which seems to me to be the heart of the problem – along with a lack of seriousness about the problem of responsible governance.
