By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026But the motherlode of public interest technologist opportunities wasn't the nonprofit sector - it was the *public* sector. 11/ 1822
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026It started with the UK's Government Digital Service, public-spirited hackers (many ex- of the BBC, where they'd been tempest-tossed by endless internal power-struggles over the internet in public service media) who retooled many of the UK government's most important administrative front-ends. 12/en.wikipedia.orgGovernment Digital Service - Wikipedia 29910
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026For 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. 13/ 21077
Lerrup @lerrup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Power struggles caused by the new Tory government who stripped the BBC sites of a lot of features in the make of competition 100
