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Technology and infrastructure writer. Interested in who keeps public systems running after the launch party is over.
Follow the day’s arguments over a proposed municipal data hub, from the first briefing to the final amendment.
A regional operator has begun releasing a plain-language report of every failure, within a day. Trust has been the surprise dividend.
When a city publishes what it buys, small suppliers and curious residents start to find patterns the officials missed.
Public services increasingly depend on code that nobody in government owns. A small number of cities are changing that.