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Writing on open data, government transparency, procurement disclosure, and building accountability systems that survive real constraints.

Featured Sector Analysis

The traffic light decision

Procurement risk-scoring systems often produce numbers nobody acts on. The CoST Data Use Manual v4 moved the action layer from scores to traffic-light bands. Here is why scoring fails as an action surface, and why banding works.

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Training is the real launch
Sector Analysis

Training is the real launch

Eight and nine April, Kampala. 143 officers from 59 Ugandan agencies tested the Government Procurement Portal under real workflow pressure. Two days changed how I will design every future rollout.

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Three integration patterns for OC4IDS portals
Technical Guidance

Three integration patterns for OC4IDS portals

Three integration patterns I have actually shipped on OC4IDS portals, and the failure mode each one carries. The standard is rarely the bottleneck. The source-system reality is.

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What 100,000 Contracts Taught Me About Procurement Transparency
Implementation

What 100,000 Contracts Taught Me About Procurement Transparency

After processing 100,000 procurement contracts in Uganda, I learned that disclosure isn't transparency. Here are the patterns the data revealed and what I'd build differently today.

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Why Disclosure Portals Die (And How to Build Ones That Don't)
Sector Analysis

Why Disclosure Portals Die (And How to Build Ones That Don't)

Every infrastructure disclosure portal I have worked with that launched to a press release went dark within three years. The failures follow predictable patterns. Here is what the survivors have in common.

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The OC4IDS Implementation Checklist Nobody Gives You
Technical Guidance

The OC4IDS Implementation Checklist Nobody Gives You

The documentation explains the schema. It doesn't tell you which decisions haunt you eighteen months in. After five implementations across three countries, here's the checklist I wish I'd had.

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