David Eaves

Back to the online world. And just noticed this big job posting here in the UK...

Director Service Transformation

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Digital Public Infrastructure Map - UCL IIPP The first global investigation of digital public infrastructure.

I'm insanely excited about the launch of the new DPI Map website.(dpimap.org)

It looks beautiful, easier access country data and has a bunch of new features.

Huge thank you to Michelle Wronski, Ole Evans and @krisstinar.bsky.social for making this update happen!

Have not read the books, but loving the show.

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

I couldn't imagine a starker piece outlining how America lost the future. Literally driving into a deadend from a economic, sustainability and climate perspective.
One day a future Jared Diamond will write about this period of US politics.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧩 The Service Gap

IIPP Profs @eaves.ca and Mike Braken, with Researcher Michelle Wronski, reflect on Europe's new International Digital Strategy & argue that services should be at the centre of Europe's digital future in their article for @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social

✍️ Read more: buff.ly/c0eocfp

So grateful to @gds.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy for hosting a team of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social students for their final semester project. Invaluable opportunity for them to learn working on a real problem.

Also... more grateful they let me take those same students down in ping pong. :)

So many good things going on in this photo.

Can you name them all? :)

Disability tax credits are critical for some Canadians. But applying for them can cost thousands | CBC News As Canada launches its new disability benefit payments in July, medical and disability experts are raising alarms over barriers to obtaining the main eligibility requirement, the disability tax credit...

File under: administrative burden.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shakes head... wow.

The Service Gap: Europe’s International Digital Strategy 2025 - The Lisbon Council Europe’s 2025 digital strategy aims to reshape global digital governance. Yet, without user-focused services, is it just supply-side idealism? This blog by Mike Bracken, senior fellow, digital governm...

Stacks don't beget services, services beget stacks.

New piece out on how Europe should be thinking about its digital strategy.

The Service Gap: Europe’s International Digital Strategy 2025 lisboncouncil.net/the-service-...

Just a note that as a amateur energy nerd, it's been so interesting reading these posts and updates...

5 capitals, 5 countries, 4 continents, 4 weeks.

Home.

BSB -> LIS -> LHR
An amazing week here in Brasilia. Helping create the first large scale RCT testing the impact of digital training.

I also have the privilege of knowing some really great people here.

How do we move from digital feudalism to digital sovereignty? Join me w Francesca Bria, Mike Bracken, David Eaves, Rainer Kattel & Cecilia Rikap to explore developing technological infrastructure that creates value, not just extracts it

20 Jun | 12:00 BST | Join ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Very excited and privilege to be part of this project! We’ve had 2000 people already sign up!!!

Join us: launch of our #ESRC-funded Digital Leadership Training & RCT with 1,000 public managers in Brazil on Tuesday with the @gestaogovbr.bsky.social Executive Secretary, ENAP President, Secretary for Digital Government, @eaves.ca & @fgvoficial.bsky.social. Sign-up: forms.office.com/r/hYyEpjUcpK.

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Whoa. Service culture context shifting from Japan to Germany is… big.

You have been kidnapped and a character from the last tv show you watched is trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Please tell my family I loved them and that we had a good run.

Also. Don’t watch random television on a plane.

For the third time this week I'm sitting in an audience as a government official presents, *using my own slides,* to talk about how they are implementing at country scale, concepts learnt in a class I taught. It's mind blowing.

Also, an absolute delight to spend time with the Japanese Digital Agency - who have been generous with their time and deeply engaging to talk to.
A double joy to have former students among them doing amazing work!
Very interesting work happening here.

Sunny day in Tokyo.

Let’s see how the IMF crowd responds to why the macroeconomic impacts of government digital transformation.

Could not agree more. I remember when @jayrosen.bsky.social included something I wrote online as course material. I reached out and he was so generous and curious to engage.

Some personal news - PressThink As we say on the internet, “some personal news.” After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this post I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I ...

Congratulations to Jay Rosen on his retirement after long and proud academic service. It's hard to think of scholars who've had more impact on their field, and have been kinder to interlopers like me. Glad you are leaving the academy but not the field, friend: pressthink.org/2025/06/some...

The HMT Green Book review seems promising, so here's hoping it feeds through into practice: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68494a...

In OECD countries, performance-based pay & promotions boost bureaucrats' job satisfaction — but not in lower-income countries. A cautionary tale about exporting management practices to the Global South. Multi-level evidence from an original survey with 19,000+ civil servants across 10 countries. ↓

Toyko I am in you!

Current status: Pulling of the triple axel equivalent of time zone shifting. Moving form London -> Ottawa -> London -> Tokyo -> London -> Brasilia -> London.

Say what you will about Brexit, but the brits have nailed airport logistics (efficient passenger flow). Am regularly out of LHR within 20 minutes of landing, and that includes having to get from the satellite terminal to the main terminal, clear customs, etc...

Dulles' just anti-patterns all that.

End note. Delayed three times and then cancelled. Rule adhered on steroids.