David Eaves

Four solid takes on it, in a tasty bite sized form factor.

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers

In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/HRCM8Yt

Gemini in gmail - just to search, find trends, is amazing.
Co-pilot in outlook is the opposite. A comparatively hostile experience.
The contrast is stunning. All my email in outlook feels “trapped”.
To be fair to MS mail.app is a vacuum. Search doesn’t exist. Even its non ai search is a disaster.

@mzjacobson.bsky.social has anyone attempted to do a chart like this for any other states? Would be curious what it looks like for a high performing red state with a different policy mix.

BLR -> BOM -> LHR
Great week with friends and colleagues old and new.

Uhhhh. Nothing? I believe our metaverse avatars got legs…

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Was a delight to be interviewed by Taki Sarantakis for the Canadian School of the Public Service on digital government, services & sovereignty.

You can see it here:
youtu.be/OzNAe4geVlU?...

If you have only a few minutes FF to the 39th minute.

Whoops! That was weird. Worked in LinkedIn! Thank you!!!

Was a delight to be interviewed by Taki Sarantakis for the Canadian School of the Public Service on digital government, services & sovereignty.

You can see it here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNAe4…

It’s long. And gets better as we go. But if you have only a few minutes FF to the 39th minute.

18F blog archive Our blog as it existed before March 1, 2025, covering topics like acquisitions, data, engineering, how we worked, user research, security, and others.

Grateful to blog.18f.org for posting all their all files. I had linked to a piece or two in my syllabus and a student just noticed the old "official" links are all dead... but I've just nicely replaced them with this great archive!

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Building tomorrow's digital public infrastructure What is digital public infrastructure and what can the UK learn from global use cases?

Event | Building tomorrow's digital public infrastructure

@rwilkinson.bsky.social, @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social and Jon Lloyd join @eaves.ca to discuss what the UK can learn from digitalization efforts around the world.

Date📅: 22 January
Time⌚️: 17:30

Find out more⤵️

Canada has what the world wants — and in this era of profound change, we’re a strong, reliable partner with ambition to build.

At the World Economic Forum, I met with business leaders from across sectors and nations who want to build with us.

I'm looking for someone who can clean up the group blog of which I'm part, Crooked Timber. All of the old hyperlinks have been borked so that <a href = URL>text</a> becomes "text":URL/. There's also a problem in the comments, where quote marks have been replaced by –

a white chicken stands in front of a sign that says update ALT: a white chicken stands in front of a sign that says update

A little update on some of the work me and my team got up to last year. Grateful to have so many great people to work with.

2025 Year in Review: Work and Impact eaves.ca/2026/01/16/2...

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers

In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/WLk4ynw

The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack Strategic standardization of cloud infrastructure backed by procurement power and market forces is the right way to tame the hyperscalers, writes David Eaves.

On a parallel track I’m really excited about the engagement on this piece.

The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack

www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-...

Also… hi! Great to see you!

Building tomorrow's digital public infrastructure What is digital public infrastructure and what can the UK learn from global use cases?

Hmm. Link is working for me. But… it is using LinkedIn’s link shorten so maybe that’s mucking things up. Here’s the direct one:

www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

🆕 Launching the 2025 State of Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) Report

Join us for the official launch of the 2025 State of #DPI Report, featuring IIPP's @eaves.ca, @jordynfetter.bsky.social, and Krisstina Rao in conversation with Stela Mocan.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/XpoNxPK

I'm chairing a @chathamhouse.org session "Building Tomorrow's Digital Public Infrastructure" Jan 22nd at 5:30pm UK. Register here for this hybrid event: lnkd.in/egkMuBmd
If you work on digital transformation, resilient digital systems, or the intersection of tech & sovereignty, join us!

Love these. Notice that imports are dramatically up. Is that a cause of concern? Insufficient capacity leading to more imports? (and I'm assuming those are carbon based? - or are they wind or hydro)?

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers

In his latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/WLk4ynw

I've said it before and this week has hammered it home.
Every country is going to get nuclear weapons now. In a world where might makes right, the ultimate form of might is now a non-negotiable. Korea, Japan, Poland, Ukraine are the obvious candidates that will move the fastest.

Ent.com. Immensely powerful, and ultimately helpful. But you have to wait on hold for days.

Excited about this piece and the reactions so far.

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers

In his latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.

🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/qt5rz60

This is an effort to figure out what has happened to my 2022(!) tax refund, which is still outstanding, and has no update status (it simply disappeared a half year ago) when I log in.
Service design is hard. And I know the CRA team works hard. But we've got to figure this out for Canadians.

Canada Revenue Agency: before calling us, please learn to define your problem in our terms & then wade through 36+ service areas, each with their responsibility set & phone number.
Also Canada Revenue Agency: Our work is so good we should be except from Treasury Board Rules about organizing content.

A lot of people read drafts and helped with thinking on this: @oli.zilla.org.uk @abadie.bsky.social @jordynfetter.bsky.social @tannock.net @seanblagsvedt.bsky.social and many many others...