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The Code Beneath The Floorboards: When Systems Cannot Talk

by red flower | Sep 15, 2026 | The Code Beneath the Floorboard

Why we keep copying, uploading and re-entering information that computers already have This post is about a modern administrative comedy that begins with a sentence like this: “Please upload proof of your address.” You have already changed your address in the system....

Before the Proposal Becomes Respectable

by red flower | Sep 10, 2026 | Becoming a Change Architect

What project architecture looks like before the acronym, the work packages and the reassuringly confident arrows. By the time a European project appears in public, most of the argument that created it has already been tidied away. The name is settled, the acronym has...

EU in Practice: Can You Still Call It “Green”?

by red flower | Sep 8, 2026 | EU in Practice

Europe’s new consumer rules are about to make some very familiar environmental claims considerably more difficult to use Most of us have probably noticed that the humble leaf has had quite a career in marketing. Once confined largely to trees, it eventually discovered...

CARE-NE: What If Capacity Building Actually Left Capacity Behind?

by red flower | Sep 3, 2026 | Becoming a Change Architect, CARE-NE

Inside the EU-funded methodology REDefine designed with exceptional partners from Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Ukraine There are project announcements that begin with a grant number, a programme logo and a sentence involving the words “we are...

And Beneath the Floorboards, Privacy Gets Funky

by red flower | Sep 3, 2026 | Civic Tech

Why changing one checkbox cannot repair an extractive system The internet has developed an extraordinary faith in the checkbox. A website may depend on cloud infrastructure scattered across several physical locations, load software written by companies the visitor has...

The Code Beneath The Floorboards: When Systems Cannot Talk

Before the Proposal Becomes Respectable

EU in Practice: Can You Still Call It “Green”?

CARE-NE: What If Capacity Building Actually Left Capacity Behind?

And Beneath the Floorboards, Privacy Gets Funky

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