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How can #policyDesign happen in collaboration with the people affected? Last June, Alejandra Diaz, Head of Policy & #ServiceDesign at @[email protected], talked about how she and her team are ‘Designing policy with communities’. The talk was recorded as part of an Intl #GovDesign event.

Designing policy with communit...

Designing policy with communities • Alejandra Diaz, Camden Council

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HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat Apr 19

HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026

Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence

Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/hybridmind42-april-2026-paper-6-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems

HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat Apr 19

What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?

https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign

HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026 Paper 5 — Administrative Complexity and Access Friction

When Systems Become Difficult to Use for the People They Serve

Hysnap Mar 28

Let's Rethink The Lords: The Experts Bench
Not technocracy.
Not control.
Just people who remember how things actually work.
#LetsRethink #PublicInstitutions #PolicyDesign

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/lets-rethink-the-lords-the-experts-bench/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Let’s Rethink The Lords: The Experts Bench

In the last post, we landed on a fairly uncomfortable place. We rely on expertise and institutional memory far more than we tend to admit. We benefit from it when it’s there, and we notice when it’…

Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health

M365Show Mar 24

What if the real legacy of ‘hire-to-retire’ was not seamless experience but layered technical debt, failed integrations, and frustrated users? It’s time to question the very premise we built our systems on.

Debunking the Hire-to-Retire Myth in HR Systems

Explore why hire-to-retire is a myth and learn how to fix architectural debt in modern HR systems for better AI and policy design.

M365 FM Podcast

Hysnap Mar 24

Good ideas don’t fail because they’re evil.
They fail because no one asked how they break.
Let’s do that part properly.
#LetsRethink #PolicyDesign #UKPolitics

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/lets-rethink-the-lords-testing-ethical-guardians/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Let’s Rethink The Lords: Testing Ethical Guardians

At this point in the conversation, someone sensible usually clears their throat. “Okay,” they say. “I can see what you’re aiming at. But surely this is where it all starts to fall apart.” And that’…

Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health

FINOkoye Mar 14

We're creating a toolkit for using African Speculative Fiction for policy making and review - help us out by giving feedback on the overall structure of the website:

- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGDdpQLxKvowoMkdYq3tRhtDnoejGb4us_AnyPd6gmcWyQgg/viewform
- https://app.lyssna.com/do/jmvq88qqonck/dpywla
- https://app.lyssna.com/do/e0vqbtftx42c/kt3bsi

Each one only takes 2-3 minutes. Do share!

#AfricanFuturist #AfroFuturist #AfricanSpeculativeFiction #PolicyDesign

How should we tag the stories?

We are creating an online African Speculative Fiction toolkit, which is intended to help create equitable and socially responsible policy making for STEM projects. All the stories and articles will be tagged by themes and topics to make them easier to find. In this survey you will be asked to: Give us your feedback on some of the proposed tags which will be used to organise stories Tell us how you would try to filter through the various short stories, essays and other content within the toolkit Share your thoughts on how this toolkit could be useful for your work. If you have any questions, do get in touch to [email protected]

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M365Show Feb 16

We’ve been sold on the idea that one system could support every career moment. But in reality, the HR software house is riddled with rooms that don’t connect. How much is this architectural debt costing us?

Debunking the Hire-to-Retire Myth in HR Systems

Explore why hire-to-retire is a myth and learn how to fix architectural debt in modern HR systems for better AI and policy design.

M365 FM Podcast

M365Show Feb 15

‘Hire-to-retire’ seduced us with its illusion of end-to-end simplicity, but beneath the surface lies a labyrinth of patchwork integrations. Are HR leaders inadvertently building foundations on sand?

Debunking the Hire-to-Retire Myth in HR Systems

Explore why hire-to-retire is a myth and learn how to fix architectural debt in modern HR systems for better AI and policy design.

M365 FM Podcast

M365Show Feb 15

Most HR systems don’t suffer from a lack of features—they’re suffering from decades of piecemeal fixes, patched together with hope rather than strategy. The real issue? The foundational lie we keep selling ourselves.

Debunking the Hire-to-Retire Myth in HR Systems

Explore why hire-to-retire is a myth and learn how to fix architectural debt in modern HR systems for better AI and policy design.

M365 FM Podcast