New at Can We Still Govern: DOGE failed. The civic tech community DOGE displaced have been having frank conversations about what they did right and wrong, and what should come next.
From Merici Vinton, who led the building of Direct File. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-did-c...
What Did Civic Tech Learn in t...
One insightful point is that under conditions where people wanted tech to make government work better, there is not a shared mental model for how that is supposed to work, and what role tech should play. In this respect the field of digital services is still immature in finding a clear policy niche.
