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2026-08-08 09:07 UTC
But the motherlode of public interest technologist opportunities wasn't the nonprofit sector - it was the *public* sector. It started with the UK's Government Digital Service, a group of public-spirited hackers (many of them ex- of the BBC, where they'd been tempest-tossed by endless internal power-struggles over the role of the internet in public service media) who retooled many of the UK government's most important administrative front-ends.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:07
For several glorious years, Britons delighted to the daily marvel of having their routine interactions with their government transformed from clunky, broken web-pages to slick, superbly thought through online processes that had all the polish of Amazon or Google, but without any of the gamesmanship, manipulation or privacy invasions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service 7/