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Stories from their strange lives. Seven word families lead into a larger argument about how direct human acts become portable institutional systems, and what can be lost in the compression.
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Books, frameworks, playbooks, essays and speeches that make the work inspectable, usable and capable of travelling beyond the room in which it began.
This register was established in August 2026. Each record preserves the item’s original delivered or written date separately from the date it was added to the register.
Stories from their strange lives. Seven word families lead into a larger argument about how direct human acts become portable institutional systems, and what can be lost in the compression.
Five rooms, and what was left in them. Five rooms and companion essays ask what survives when work is mechanised, functions are abstracted and responsibility is redistributed.
Stories from their strange lives. Seven word families lead into a larger argument about how direct human acts become portable institutional systems, and what can be lost in the compression.
Five rooms, and what was left in them. Five literary rooms and five companion essays ask what survives when work is mechanised, functions are abstracted and responsibility is redistributed.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 7. Examines assurance across the shared machinery of Nigeria's emerging digital state, including testing, monitoring, security, data quality, accessibility, resilience, supplier assurance and recovery.
A paper examining why individually held AI capability cannot simultaneously be private, assured and sovereign, and formalising the assurance boundary invariant that emerges when consequential capability depends on external actors.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 5. Examines payments as shared public infrastructure and the assurance problem created when a payment succeeds but the underlying government service, entitlement or institutional workflow does not.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 4. Examines digital identity as public infrastructure and the assurance, governance and institutional questions created when identity becomes a shared layer of the digital state.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 3. Examines the promise of telling government once through connected public data, alongside the governance, trust, accountability and control risks created when public data is joined across services.
The dated canonical framework record establishing the formal definition, four principles, five pillars, Evaluative Sovereignty doctrine, maturity interpretation, Intelligence Sovereignty Test and assessment architecture.
The first controlled application of Foundational Edition 1.0, assessing CEREARK's dependence on externally provided generative AI for consequential knowledge work without producing an aggregate maturity score.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 2. Why Nigeria's Government Service Portal matters and why the long-term ambition must move beyond a directory towards an orchestrated citizen journey.
Building Nigeria's Digital State, Part 1. A systems view of the public-facing front door, shared digital basics, government systems and the backbone needed to make digital government coherent and durable.
Public Consultation Edition v1.1, dated 14 August 2026. Preserved as the public development record that precedes Foundational Edition 1.0.
ANST Conference Launch Edition 2026 — Audience Edition v1.5. A practical playbook for understanding testing needs early, making adequate provision and governing evidence through delivery.
A shorter public route into the argument developed formally in Paper No. 1.
Why evaluation, sampling, audit and challenge may become the practical bottleneck in the age of intelligent work.
An article arguing that AI does not repair a broken operating model by itself and that organisational design, decision flows and ways of working remain decisive.
An article examining why organisational complexity can persist because it serves interests or functions rather than merely arising by accident.
An article on the organisational tendency to confuse visible activity and movement with genuine progress and outcomes.
An article interpreting Meta's AI restructuring as a signal about organisational capability, economics, talent and strategic adaptation rather than simply a technology story.
An article arguing that Nigeria's challenge is not simply a shortage of intelligence but the systems through which intelligence is organised, connected, governed and converted into action.
A keynote on how artificial intelligence changes testing work, professional responsibility and the meaning of quality assurance.
An emerging argument that testing and assurance capability are components of digital state capacity.
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