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"The network of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) seeks to promote the sharing of expertise and transferable policy practices among governments who have a shared ambition of delivering wellbeing through their economic approach."

"The Well-being of Future Generations Act gives us the ambition, permission and legal obligation to improve our social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being."

"The United States needs to invest in a new digital public sphere-a new civic infrastructure-if it hopes to sustain democratic practice and informed participation."

"As technology-especially computer, information, and Internet technology-permeates all aspects of our society, people who understand that technology need to be part of public-policy discussions. We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists. Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest." A group of academics in this field wrote that "public-interest technology refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.""

The push for a "PBS for the internet"

"rather than try to build the next Google, should we not focus on building the infrastructures that prevent the next Google instead?"

"Rachel Coldicutt;s talk at the 2019 publicspaces/BBC conference"

"Physical public spaces are increasingly being digitised through technologies such as surveillance cameras and facial recognition."

An essay, in the form of an FAQ, about the possibility of digital social spaces built with taxpayer dollars.

"The BBC's R&D team has built experimental systems that pull in data from Netflix and Spotify. The goal? More personalisation "

BBC development of a personal data store

Christian Fuchs's talk on the public service internet

Michel Bauwens' Data ownership library on diigo

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