#digitalgovernance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalgovernance, aggregated by home.social.
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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Jaishankar, Irish FM Discuss Trade, Education Ties as Ireland Assumes EU Council Presidency
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held a conversation with his Irish counterp…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCouncil #administrativeburdens #bilateralties #digitalgovernance #educationties #energycrisis #EUcompetitiveness #EUcouncil #EUleadership #eutrade #HelenMcEntee #IRELANDEUPRESIDENCY #JaishankarIreland #multilateralfora #SingleMarket #tradecooperation
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🧭 Corruption research meets digital responsibility.
From 25–27 June, RC Trust and the University of Cologne co-host the 10th Forum of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network in Duisburg.
The organizing team includes members of Nils Köbis’ HUAM group, together with Anna K. Schwickerath from the University of Cologne.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/corruption-research-meets-digital-responsibility
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Empathy is not a soft extra. It is a warning system.
It tells us where a process is failing before the dashboard does, where people are being lost between forms, platforms, policies, and polite automated replies.
#CivicIntelligence #Empathy #SystemsThinking #DigitalGovernance #HumanCenteredDesign #AlgorithmicGovernance #PublicInterestTech #Ethics #REDefine
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#Recap What can our most-read content of 2025 tell us about what’s next?
Among our most-read pieces, those addressing participation and the redistribution of power stood out.
In this recap, we look at some of the paths explored by APC and its members and partners over the past year, and we celebrate achievements in policy and regulation resulting from joint action. Check out the thread to learn more.
#Multistakeholder #DigitalGovernance #GlobalSouth #DigitalJustice