My Harvard University Harvard Kennedy School colleague Lauren Brodsky's & Harris Policy's David Chrisinger's book "Because Data Can't Speak for Itself" is out! Great book for those wanting to use data to support and tell compelling policy stories (or any kind of stories).

I have been listening to Tech Won't Save Us since Episode 1 so it was a huuuuge honor to join Paris Marx today to talk all things government tech, outsourcing, creeping privatisation, open data & the Third Way (& why all these things are related). Episode out some time next month!

📽️📈 ¿Puede una medida que funciona tener efectos indeseables? Los efectos positivos (ahorro e inflación) pero también los costes (consumo de gas incrementado, fugas a Francia y potencial olvido de las reformas estructurales) del tope al gas, explicados por @jorgegalindo.

Hay un gran desorden bajo el cielo de Twitter, pero la situación está lejos de ser excelente. Desde que llegó el señor Musk todo ha sido caos y destrucción… y de los malos. Muchos serían los aspectos a analizar, pero hoy queremos centrarnos en la cuestión de los datos 🧵

Tomorrow, The Big Con, the new book from Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, is published. Find out what Rosie told City A.M. about its contents in this interview. Book launch ➡️ bit.ly/3XPOOaT Article ➡️ bit.ly/3lN9RwH

I wrote some thoughts on why the death of Moore's law is leading to the emergence of vertical tech monopolies. Comments very welcome :) UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose medium.com/iipp-blog/moor…

New paper by Fernando Monge, sarah barns, @rainerkattel and Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social): 'Reclaiming #data for improved city #governance: Barcelona's New Data Deal' ow.ly/U6qs50Q4Yfg

Given increased #policy #activism by city governments, Fernando Monge, sarah barns, @rainerkattel and Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social) argue there is an urgent need to understand better the key goals and instruments deployed by cities to resist corporate control of #UrbanData ow.ly/U6qs50Q4Yfg

si no han escuchado el episodio más reciente de Money Talks donde hablamso sobre ciudades con nuestro invitado de lujo no me hablen... open.spotify.com/episode/3Ueniw…

Why do individual people adopt innovations much faster than (public) organizations? Weeding the right from the wrong motives to delay the adoption of innovations in governments is more important than ever! open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p…

Citizen One Videopodcast: part 2 of the conversation with Douglas Stuart McDaniel (urbannext_net), focused on urban resilience, climate impact mitigation, design for sustainability, and prosperity creation in up-and-coming innovation districts. open.substack.com/pub/multiverse…

If Keynes were an urbanist: “Practical men who believe themselves to be roaming free through city streets and buildings are usually the slaves of some defunct urban planner.”

Even if large parts of our lives are shaped by seemingly intangible technologies, material conditions still determine our destinies. It’s hard to measure and model how street geometry shapes wages or carbon: The Performance of the Form, by Fernando Monge open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p…

A new CS review: Fernando Fernández Monge (Fernando Monge) from the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University (Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University) discusses 'City Science: Performance Follows Form' (Actar Publishers): "How graceful science can make urban beauty" open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p…

1/8¿Vivienda en alquiler o en propiedad? El debate que marcará el futuro de España no va de ideologías, sino de qué tipo de sociedad queremos ser. Y de si estamos dispuestos a desmontar el contrato social que ha definido nuestras ciudades y barrios desde hace más de 70 años. 🧵

Some thoughts on when can data, both government and corporate, be a public infrastructure, and the policy implications of it all. Is Data a Public Infrastructure? open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p…

I was inspired to write this piece after listening to a great conversation between Patrick McKenzie and Alethios Mapping the Invisible City: open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p… Collaboration around data can unlock building abundance. Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University

If you’re a city leader, you’re probably using data to make critical decisions. But is your organization getting the most out of available data? Explore eight key ways cities can use data to solve problems and create public value using a free framework developed by the Bloomberg

Why is building in legacy cities so costly? One reason is that there is a lot already built above but also underground. And we do not have good information to know where these pipes and cables are. Wellington, NZ, is tackling that. open.substack.com/pub/fermonge/p…

I am thinking a lot about feedback loops in city governments. What are the key differences between how information flows in public versus private organizations, as well as within functions within governments (operations, service delivery, policy shops)?