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Civic Punks

Derek Alton

This is my experiment in creating interesting podcasts about public sector innovation. Disclaimer: All opinions on this channel are my own opinions or the personal opinions of those who I interview.

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66 episodes

  1. Britain's Big Experiment in Reinventing Government with Catherine Day 29:53
  2. The Anti-Cambridge Analytica 56:40
  3. Finding Your People: Henry Grunzweig on the State Capacity Ecosystem 30:38
  4. You Might Get Fired - A Conversation with Iain Montgomery 53:25
  5. Why Is Government So Bad at Working With Startups with Kateryna Frolova 36:34
  6. Ukraine’s AI Playbook: Sovereignty, Agents and the Future of Government 37:22
  7. Why Kyiv Works: A Debrief with Denys Nazarenko 17:48
  8. Six Weeks Under Siege: Kyiv’s CIO on Keeping the City Running 10:41
  9. Backing Civic Punks Before It Had a Name — Olivia Dorey on Kindred, Ambassadorship & Building a Movement 33:43
  10. Chika Masuda on Japan’s Digital Agency, Christian Bason, and Finding Your Way Into Government 14:24
  11. The Local Government Everyone Is Asking About 37:25
  12. Europe Tour Begins: Kyiv, AI, and the Future of Government 7:30
  13. AI, Sovereignty, and the Future of Public Service 34:24
  14. Where Civic Punks Goes From Here 6:43
  15. Reclaiming Imagination in Government with Sir Geoff Mulgan 41:14
  16. What If Government Loved You? with Thea Snow 38:27
  17. Lines, Loops, Vibes: Suhit Anantula on How Government Finds Its Rhythm 37:57
  18. When Innovation Stops Changing Things 12:26
  19. What Comes After Human-Centred Design? 38:55
  20. Michael Baskin on AI, Tools, and Doing Your Best Work 38:24
  21. Shannon Salter on Designing Government Around Life Events 17:33
  22. I participate therefore I am 12:10
  23. Government is doing this wrong 7:01
  24. What Happens When Urgency Meets Bureaucracy 44:03
  25. Ukraine and Agentic AI: A Glimpse of the Future of Government 4:56
  26. It Feels Like We’ve Lost a Step… What Happened? 5:42
  27. Carving a middle path on AI 8:52
  28. From Dystopia to Utopia - A conversation with Amber Guette 18:19
  29. Agentic AI Is Coming… Are Governments Ready? 9:40
  30. Brenton's Favourite Book 6:25
  31. When a Government Hired the World’s Smartest People… It Worked 7:56
  32. The Hidden Trap Behind Cutting the Public Service 2:50
  33. 3 Thoughts From Australia 5:23
  34. Can Victoria Actually Deliver on Government Innovation? 10:51
  35. Pia Andrew's Top 3 Recommendations 3:07
  36. Fixing Innovation 1:44
  37. The housing theory of everything 8:01
  38. Navigating Tensions 5:15
  39. The Future of Government — A Conversation with Pia Andrews 44:21
  40. What Singapore Taught Me About AI and the Future of Government 3:47
  41. Is Singapore right!? 3:36
  42. Have we broken innovation? 3:18
  43. Can we fix hiring? 6:11
  44. What did we learn from PSN Government Innovation Week - Federal 40:53
  45. The power of data analysis 4:33
  46. Civic Punks Launch 14:54
  47. Wiki Government Inspired Ryan 9:38
  48. Your New Best Friend 7:19
  49. What did we learn from PSN Digital Leadership Day - Federal 9:07
  50. Have we become too digital? 3:08