Albert Meijer

Hoera! Een NWO Vici‑beurs!🎉

Miljoenen mensen kunnen ontsnappen aan armoede met hulp van de overheid, maar doen geen aanvraag voor bijvoorbeeld huurtoeslag.

Ze lopen tegen barrières aan. Ik noem dit welzijnsmuren: Welfare Walls.

Wil je het onderzoek volgen? Laat het weten of mail L.G.Tummers@uu.nl

Captured Futures Talk Show In 2025 Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen published Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. In this talk show, moderated by Vanessa Timmer,…

Hopeful perspectives on the futures of our planet in these dark times. Our planetary futures are captured but we can unleash radical new ones. Please take the time to view this interview by @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen on their book 'Captured Futures'. vimeo.com/1161055336?f...

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Congrats @rosema.bsky.social !

New article in GIQ on Digital Transformation Leadership, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X25000851

📣 New article in Government Information Quarterly 📣

OPEN ACCESS.

Governments try to adopt new digital technologies.

However, there was no reliable way to measure how public leaders are directing such transformations.

We therefore validated a Digital Transformation Leadership scale.

There is no such thing as a digital twin: Deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies in Dutch urban governance - Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, Sharon van Geldere, Mirko Tobias S... Within the context of three-dimensional simulations of urban space and their variables within, digital twin technologies (DTs) are touted as making urban govern...

So happy to see this paper out on deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies with Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, @mtschaefer.bsky.social & @albertmeijer.bsky.social! 🚀

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📣🆕Early View

Why can the #humanities be beneficial for the practice of #PublicAdministration (PA)❓

In this Forum article, dedicated to Fabienne Maron, Edoardo Ongaro, @albertmeijer.bsky.social & colleagues argue that the humanities can deepen our understanding of PA👇

Opinie | De vloek van AI Kunstmatige intelligentie: Het AI-plan van Trump zal desastreuze gevolgen hebben voor de planeet, schrijft Roel Dobbe.

Roel Dobbe (TU Delft) in NRC: "De vloek van AI" (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

@haroonsheikh.bsky.social @marleenstikker.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @mtschaefer.bsky.social @algosoc.org @silvertje.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

EU OS Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

Faced with USA technological vendor dependency and the risks this entails, initiatives such as EU OS are beginning to emerge. This is a proof-of-concept operating system based on Fedora (GNU/Linux) for European civil service. @itgespub.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

+ info: eu-os.gitlab.io

When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector - Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector

cityleadership.harvard.edu/resources/wh...

via @albertmeijer.bsky.social

Gary Lineker among 500 media figures urging BBC to reinstate Gaza documentary Exclusive: Film and TV stars among those writing to corporation after it pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

A bizarre decision by BBC; the documentary is indeed excellent:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Algorithm Registers

- What are they?
- What drives them?
- Do they work?

OA-paper from our ALGOPOL-project by Esther Nieuwenhuizen based on extensive research in the Netherlands.

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Same here! My favorite director. Loved Twin Peaks but also all his films (except for the straight story).

Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests Published in Public Performance & Management Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Algorithmic Recommendations

- Survey experiments
- Interventions: procedural, rationale & combined
- Findings: any type increases trust

With E. Nieuwenhuizen, F. Bex & @stephangrim.bsky.social

Main points: video

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Design science in public administration: producing both situational interventions and generic knowledge Abstract. Design science is making a comeback in the discipline of public administration: inspired by the growing popularity of design thinking, various sc

📣 I want to share with you a very interesting article recently authored by Albert Meijer on how to design science on public administration research. Includes guidelines to create better situational and generic knowledge.

The article is open access. More info here: academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance...