Cases
Governance projects, recorded against a common set of fields.
16 records. Review labels describe the catalogue entry, not the source’s reliability. About record status
Bee Network, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester's publicly controlled transport network, starting with franchised buses from September 2023.
Qualified confidence
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
The January 2025 executive order renamed the United States Digital Service and created a temporary DOGE organisation. This record covers that founding instrument rather than a verified assessment of later results.
Limited evidenceTime-sensitive details due for reviewImage credit
Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC, photographed in 2020.Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Dutch childcare benefits scandal
Dutch childcare-benefit enforcement involved unlawful nationality processing and serious failures of legal protection. A parliamentary inquiry reported in 2020, and the cabinet resigned in January 2021.
Qualified confidenceImage credit
mystic_mabel · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Holbeck Viaduct, Leeds
A disused Victorian railway viaduct in Leeds that a community group has campaigned to reopen as a green walking and cycling route.
Qualified confidenceIndia Stack
India Stack describes a set of digital infrastructure components spanning identity, payments and data sharing. Aadhaar is one component; it is not synonymous with the entire stack.
Qualified confidenceLeeds mass transit
The repeated attempts to build a tram or mass transit system in Leeds, the latest of which has slipped towards the late 2030s.
Qualified confidenceMonkbridge Viaduct Garden, Leeds
A disused 1840s railway viaduct in Leeds converted into a 300-metre linear garden as part of a mixed-use development.
Qualified confidenceOGAS
Glushkov’s proposed national computer network for Soviet economic management was never realised as intended. Benjamin Peters interprets its history through institutional competition and failed coordination.
Limited evidence
Project Cybersyn
A Chilean project of 1971–1973 combining communications, modelling and management tools for nationalised industry. Its telex network saw operational use, but the coup ended the wider project before a full assessment of its ambitions.
Qualified confidenceImage credit
Reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room, Design Museum of Barcelona, 2025.Farisori · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster
The long-delayed programme to restore the Palace of Westminster, during which Parliament spends heavily on maintaining a deteriorating building.
Qualified confidenceRobodebt
An Australian welfare debt scheme that relied on averaging annual income across fortnightly benefit periods. Income averaging stopped in November 2019; refunds, litigation and a royal commission followed.
Qualified confidenceSystem Risk Indication (SyRI)
A Dutch system linking administrative data to identify people at risk of fraud within selected projects. In February 2020, The Hague District Court held its legal framework incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
High confidenceThe Fulton Report on the Civil Service
The 1966–1968 inquiry recommended professionalisation and structural changes to the British Civil Service. Some recommendations were implemented, including a new department and college; implementation was incomplete.
High confidenceThe Portugal game
A documented Portugal game ending in France’s diplomatic victory at turn 318, after two nuclear strikes on Toulouse. The log records both tool failures and awareness of France’s diplomatic lead.
Qualified confidenceTransformation of the Grand Parc buildings, Bordeaux
The transformation of 530 occupied social housing flats in three early-1960s blocks at the Cité du Grand Parc, Bordeaux, by adding winter gardens and balconies instead of demolishing them.
High confidenceX-Road and Estonian digital government
X-Road is software for secure exchange between organisations’ information systems. Estonia’s X-tee deployment began in 2001 and remains part of its digital public infrastructure.
Qualified confidence
