Building The State Capacity Ecosystem

Government works better when the people trying to fix it can find each other.

That sounds obvious. It isn’t happening.

The practitioners, technologists, researchers, and funders working to make government more capable are largely operating in silos, without a clear picture of who else is in the space, what they’re building, or where the gaps are. Great work gets duplicated. Good partnerships never form. Talent can’t find its way in.

This Substack is about changing that.

Here’s what you’ll find in this newsletter:

• Who’s doing the work — profiles of orgs and people building government capacity

• How the ecosystem fits together — patterns, gaps, and connections across the field

• What’s actually working — honest takes on tools, approaches, and models that move the needle

• Tools to help you act — Hub resources and events to turn theory into action

If that’s interesting to you, please subscribe. And if you’re doing this work yourself, reach out. The whole point is to connect the dots.