Our Head of Local Government, @madebycatem.bsky.social Cate McLaurin’s latest piece is in The MJ. In “Council culture: Why digital needs to be at the core", Cate argues that digital is everyone’s responsibility, not just the tech team's. 👉 www.themj.co.uk/council-culture-digital-core

Are you prepared for a #cyberattack? 🎙️Tune in to hear @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social‬ interview @madebycatem.bsky.social about: 🟢 Her experience leading the response to a high-profile attack 🟢 How to build your #cyberresilience. ⏯️ bit.ly/446G4RZ @nhsconfed.org @publicdigital.bsky.social

Finally made it to an Interesting in London. So so good. Replenished my people are bloody brilliant bucket. Which tbh has been empty for a while. #interesting2025 Here for agitating around another Sheffield/Northern edition.

Can you please share the post below @janethughes.bsky.social @jenitennison.com @jereeve.bsky.social @johnlsheridan.bsky.social @jukes.ie @ldncdo.bsky.social @libdemdaisy.bsky.social @madebycatem.bsky.social @maltbyps.bsky.social @ndenysua.bsky.social @noursidawi.uk @ntouk.bsky.social

We've opened a ticket ballot for GovCamp Scotland 2025 www.govcamp.scot/tickets. Please register and spread the word 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ik schreef een stukje over mijn worsteling met het woord "innoveren" anneschuth.nl/2025/03/28/n...

Possibly the world’s most boring video. But also immensely exciting. @jamestplunkett.bsky.social finally!

There’s still time to join us on 13th February for our AI 101 Impact Training. This session is aimed at people who have already started with or are interested in improving their AI literacy. lu.ma/lpet76u5

New week, new experiments, new notes anneschuth.nl/2025/01/25/m... #weeknotes

Sunday night kimchi prep.

A massive thank you to all the organisers, campmakers and volunteers who make UKGovCamp the best unconference event. #ukgc25 was a joyous and hopeful thing

That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗

Fabulous day @ukgovcamp.bsky.social Thankyou to all the organisers - you made it a brilliant day. ❤️

I’m staying in a house in Montpellier where it appears the owner *may* have left their cat in a separate part of the house behind a locked door. We have, of course, named it Schrödinger.

How might we build the capacity and resilience of institutions and civil society to respond to cyber attacks and so change the incentives around ransomware?

No more Big IT. "We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here: www.ft.com/content/6b1f...

My best attempt at making sense of what has been happening at the British Library and more importantly how to learn from it ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-mat...

Woke up to lovely snowy Dutch scenes this morning. Also had to unfreeze the bike lock with boiling water.

‘This yawning gap in knowledge and curiosity around technology remains true across senior levels of government, the civil service, parliament, and the judiciary’ . . .

Explanations behind the Horizon scandal cannot be reduced to a rogue supplier or an IT failure, but a set of organisational and systemic failures at the heart of government, writes our founding partner Mike Bracken. public.digital/2024/01/12/a...

Said hello to my fave Utrecht cafe today kushii.nl and thought of you @marxculture.bsky.social

In the coming election year I think we'll hear lots of views on where the future of the NHS App lies. If there was one piece of advice I'd have it's "choose wisely". A seemingly simple could well require fundamental changes to infra, service design, and op models across thousands of orgs...

My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...

This will be excellent. Sign up to either come in person (Clerkenwell) or Zoom.

Weeknotes S16 Ep8: writing is getting easier again weeknot.es/weeknotes-s1...

I can’t wait for this film to be made and tell the story of the impact of section 28. 👏👏👏such a powerful teaser

20 years ago, on the 18th November 2003, Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was removed. S28 'banned' local authorities and schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’ We’re pleased to release a snapshot teaser of the doc we’re developing on Section 28 vimeo.com/885958871?sh...

This is going to be excellent!

Dig out your sequins & Christmas jumpers ... our next @publicdigital.bsky.social PD Sessions is going to be a fun-filled, festive edition! @matildemigliorero.bsky.social & I will be hosting an *awesome* panel to chat about our cities, data & digital. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/publi...

In the latest @publicdigital.bsky.social newsletter: 🏆 Future of Government Awards: nominate smart folk & meaningful work 👏 @audree.bsky.social and her 🚗 trip/transformation programme analogy ✏️ plans, but unbudgeable ones @jiggott.bsky.social ⬛ internet blackouts in Gaza 💪 Fighting AI race bias

It's free to attend, includes lunch and a creche. It's on Saturday 20 January 2024 near St Pauls, London. Register now via forms.gle/9pQb6yThR5q2.... Here's the UKGovCamp2023 video to get you in the mood 🙂 youtu.be/M1hD_Dyb8Zg

UKGovCamp is an annual unconference on digital, data and technology in the public sector. Unlike a conference where it's set by the organisers, the agenda (j.mp/ukgovcamp) is created by the attendees at the start of the day. 1/2

Do you know a brilliant practitioner, team or leader delivering people-centred change that deserves recognition for their work? WELL... nominations for the Future of Government Awards are open! You have until 14th December to submit (and self-nominations are encouraged!) futureofgovernment.com/en

"building services through programmes imposes an artificial cliff edge for the teams responsible, and creates the suggestion that upon programme exit a service is largely “done” changing." @audree.bsky.social examines the effects of programmatic service delivery. public.digital/2023/11/08/b...

This is powerful stuff, capturing what many in Whitehall yearn to do but are confounded from doing by systems and structures - echoing thinking of the Public Office from twenty years ago among many others. And still, here we are. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

First day back in the office after 3 weeks recovery. . . So lovely to see some lovely colleagues IRL

“The future of design is feeling. It can create restoration, transformation and connection which we desperately crave. And it can help us to thrive and create joy together. It can create equity, empathy, community.”✨ #CityLab2023

My Dutch is improving/ mijn nederlands wordt beter! 😎