Join Ishmael Interactive this week as we talk to Derek Alton, government veteran and soon-to-be globetrotting Youtube star :)

Alton has spent years inside government digital transformation efforts and now plans to travel the world documenting what he calls "civic punks"—the unglamorous rebels who ignore political theatre to fix the actual machinery of state.

While politicians debate policy, civil servants quietly pioneer innovations from disaster-mapping systems to privacy-first digital identities, proving that the most radical work in government happens far from the spotlight, in the technical decisions that determine whether the state can actually deliver on its promises.

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