When the State meets the Street

Books like this one come along rarely.

“When the State meets the Street” is a discussion of how public sector algorithm designers keep screwing up in practice – and is probably applicable to the technical people working on everything from AI (everywhere) to Universal Credit and any GDS/DCMS digital programme.

It’s an easy read, and if you read it, you’re less likely to do the sort of stupid stuff that lands across my desk…

https://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/bookshop/product/When-the-State-Meets-the-Street-by-Professor-Bernardo-Zacka/9780674545540 

If you have a ban on new paper books in your house, read pages 250-254 in a bookshop (and then buy the book and keep it at work — There is currently no ebook available in the UK (which is really annoying)). An ebook is now available.

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Jan 2018
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