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Alex Blandford

CULT FICTION

FIRST: ALL THE WARNINGS

I AM NOT AN EXPERT

ETHNOCENTRISM

CARGO CULTS

“…cargo cults do not exist, or at least their symptoms vanish

when we start to doubt that we can arbitrarily extract a few features from context and label them an institution”

SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

(MOSTLY)

THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

POO & POTHOLES

EVALUATE! EVALUATE!

#broke

CAN WE EVER ESCAPE POWER?

LOL, NO

WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE POWER AND WORK TOGETHER

SILOS ARE THE NATURAL PREDATOR OF USER FACING SERVICES

OUR RESEARCH IS A SECRET THAT WE KEEP

FROM EACH OTHER

YES, YES, THIS IS ALL VERY

BUSINESS BUT WHAT ABOUT

DESIGNERS AND RESEARCHERS?

TREAT GOVERNMENT AS AN OPEN SOURCE

PROJECT

WHAT FEATURES OF OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS TO REPLICATE?

WHAT TO AVOID?

CARGO CULTS && SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

THANKS! ANY QUESTIONS?