What Jennifer Pahlka thinks about innovation
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jennifer Pahlka has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA digital-service team embedded in an unchanged agency produces no lasting change once it moves on.
Their wordsA digital service team that works with an agency that continues to hire and manage for the same jobs they did last year, and structures the work in the same way it did last year, is just a tourist.
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