No one signed the denial. No one made the decision. But the harm arrived anyway.
🎥 New short film: The Disappearance of Accountability
📖 Companion post: The Bureaucratic Abyss
Kafka foresaw the system. We built it.
Watch + read:
🔗 https://redefine.pt/2025/07/10/the-bureaucratic-abyss/
🎬 https://youtu.be/M754BTKTjXM
#theruleofnobody #kafkaesque #systemdesign #digitalwelfare #bureaucracy #publicaccountability #shortfilm #designjustice #techandsociety
India leads the way in equality!
According to the World Bank’s 2025 Gini Index, India ranks as the 4th most income-equal nation worldwide 🌍
📉 Gini Score: 25.5
📊 Surpasses the US, China & all G7 nations
✅ Jan Dhan Yojana
✅ DBT
✅ Ayushman Bharat
✅ Stand-Up India
India’s growth isn’t just fast—it’s fair.
https://news24media.org/india-ranks-among-worlds-most-equal-nations/
#IndiaPride #GiniIndex2025 #DigitalWelfare #SocialJustice #WorldBank #IndiaSuccessStory
India now ranks 4th globally in income equality, surpassing the US and China, according to the World Bank’s 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief. Learn what drove this transformation. equal nation gini index
Automation fail. Two-thirds of benefit claims flagged as potentially high risk of being fraud or errors by a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) automated system actually found to be legitimate. In other words 2/3 were neither fraudulent nor having errors.
My paper, co-authored with Open Lab colleagues at Newcastle University, Clara Crivellaro, Adam W Parnaby, and Ahmed Kharrufa, titled "Hostile Systems: A Taxonomy of Harms Articulated by Citizens Living with Socio-Economic Deprivation" has now been published in the ACM CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642562
#digitalwelfare #welfarebenefits #universalcredit #egovernment #servicedesign #ethics #access #harms #responsibleinnivation
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