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This is the second issue of The Interoperability, a newsletter written by Alek on the margins of our new Shared Digital Europe project. We are exploring what we are provisionally calling the Interoperable Public Civic Ecosystem - and thinking a lot about interoperability.

Since the last newsletter we finalised the first research sprint, which gave us a broad view of the topic: the value proposition of interoperability and proposed ways that it can become a solution to problem we face in the digital space.

We don't yet have the full map of interoperability narratives, but we have a good start. And I'm still perplexed by how this concept suddenly transformed from a bland technical rule to a favourite topic of digital activists and regulators.

We have started work on our new Shared Digital Europe report, on the theme of interoperability. This is a project we’re doing with the same core team of Sophie Bloemen, Paul Keller and Alek Tarkowski.

We decided to start writing personal in-progress notes for this project, largely inspired by the diaries of Robin Sloan and the ethos of the republic of the newsletters.

This is the first note, written by Alek, two weeks into our first research sprint. Thanks for subscribing!

This is the test pattern for "The Interoperability", our new Shared Digital Europe newsletter.

The beginning of a newsletter, of a Twitter account, or any other social media presence, is not a simple matter.

Newsletters, like many other online media forms, are stuck in a constant present and thus easy to imagine as functioning well over stretches of time. It's the beginnings and the endings that are hard to imagine, and to do well.

We are falling back on the well established tradition of the test pattern. Regular programming will ensue promptly.