Digital Trust

Through the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, the Theia Institute met with Brazilian election officials to exchange insights on electoral innovation, technology, and democratic governance.

(Letting go of code to rediscover the craft) We’ve all noticed it. Everyone uses meeting recorders now, but almost no one reads the notes. Why? Because we didn’t take them ourselves. They lack 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, and 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. That same pattern is showing up in development. As GenAI writes more of the code, individual lines hold less meaning. The real value is shifting. Not toward faster coding, but toward 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 for the people

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