State Capacity EcosystemWe map who works on state capacity, bring them into one room, and build the ecosystem that turns their work into tools government can use. The aim: a government with the best technology and the talent to run it.
State capacity is the government's ability to do what it sets out to do: issue the permit, deliver the benefit, keep the trains running. Many people care about it. Few know who else is out there or how to help. Make the work visible and it starts to move.
Inspired by Jennifer Pahlka, Recoding America.
Map the ecosystem. Put technologists and practitioners in the same room and turn what they build into something government uses. Expand the community. Repeat.
A visible, connected ecosystem enabling a government with the talent, tools, and operating capacity to deliver for the people it serves.
Many contributors, one room. The work moves when they work together.
We're building a flywheel. The ecosystem feeds events, events create community, and community drives ecosystem growth.
300+ organizations, a Connect board of people and problems, and a map of commonalities. Find who you might work with.
Practitioners and technologists in one room, ending with running software judged against real agency problems. Demo nights put it in front of the people who can adopt it.
See events →A Slack for practitioners and builders, a Substack that makes the case, and playbooks so the next organizer can run the format without us in the room.
Join the community →Working software, built by technologists and practitioners together.
A playbook, so the next room doesn't need us in it.
A standing group of people that keeps producing both.
Join the conversation, make yourself findable, and be in the room next time we build.