Skylight was launched in June of 2017. We’re currently made up of 164 people — and one ferret. A lot of us originally worked for civic-oriented groups such as 18F, the U.S. Digital Service, and the Presidential Innovation Fellows. Now, as part of Skylight, we’re working hard to cultivate an incredible team and culture.
What brings us together is a passion for creating better outcomes for…
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Public systems are full of small failures that compound: a form that doesn't save, an eligibility rule that contradicts itself, a policy that works on paper and nowhere else. I study how these failures propagate and how institutions can build the capacity to catch them before they cascade.
My work sits at the intersection of delivery and governance. I build frameworks for decision…
Today I was a panelist in one of the activities of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability Forum. The panel was called Government as a Platform: from Social Accountability to Institutional Reform and this was what I prepared for the occasion.
So I was asking myself, why I am here. I mean, not the philosophical question, but what do my experience offers in terms of seeing…
Co-authored with Yasodara Córdova.
This blog was originally posted at Governance for Development, World Bank Group.
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Rosie the robot was built to analyze the public expenses of Brazil’s congress members and empower citizen demands for social accountability. As part of a flagship project, Operação Serenata de Amor, the focus was to use data science to better use and…
Co-authored with Yasodara Córdova. Also available in Spanish.
This blog was originally posted at Governance for Development, World Bank Group.
Every month in Brazil, the government team in charge of processing reimbursement expenses incurred by congresspeople receives more than 20,000 claims. This is a manually intensive process that is prone to error and susceptible to corruption.…
Co-authored with Irio Musskopf.
This article was originally posted at Vice.
59 percent of the Brazilian Congress has been implicated. Could this social media-focused project meant to hold elected officials accountable work in the US?
_This is an opinion piece by Operation Serenata de Amor, a project that uses artificial intelligence to analyze public spending and fight…