Professional commentary on digital infrastructure governance informed by my research and practitioner experience.
Data is supposed to improve decision-making, yet political action remains uneven. What data gets used, whose data gets used, and what type of data receives political legitimacy? A look at that question through Oakland's Interstate 580 truck ban and the environmental burden it shifted onto East Oakland.
Read more →Technology's benefits come with hidden transaction costs, the work of searching, coordinating, contracting, and complying that surrounds any adoption. Drawing on original research into municipal cyber risk management, this piece argues that the cost of a technological intervention can't be separated from the institutional capacity required to govern it.
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