With pleasure! Wanna hear more about citizen participation in policymaking? Wanna hear more about the new era of government digital? Of course you do! Sign up for this 👇🏽, it'll be awsm

When working with teams looking at developing proofs-of-concept, I try to avoid describing it as a discovery – tangible, proven results are the goal. An alpha-discovery loop is what it is. visitmy.website/2022/04/09/a...

Hi Bluesky – excited to officially introduce ourselves! We're Earth Species Project, a non-profit decoding animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth. Follow us to join the conversation as we explore the future of interspecies understanding! 💙 🌍

I’m looking at tickets for HowTheLightGetsIn. Has anyone been? I’d love to understand how family friendly it is! #howthelightgetsin

Here's me and @andy-gordon.bsky.social reflecting on a wonderful #ukgc25 torchbox.com/blog/takeawa... lots of creative & problem solving fuel and community vibes from a brilliant day

I don't know why it didn't strike me before, but v glad that today's conversations helped shake loose the thought that a library is (partly) a vehicle for literacy, so maybe a National Data Library can be (partly) about data literacy for everyone. Maybe it has to be. #ukgc25

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

UKGovCamp was brilliant. Passionate people coming together to explore big questions. How might we ask better questions? Make reality-based decisions that reflect the cyclical and complex nature of government? What future roles and culture is needed to realise change and attract talent? #ukgc25

Excited to be attending #ukgc25 for the first time tomorrow! I’ve have only heard amazing things, and the lead-up has been exceptional— clear, kind and wonderfully inclusive. Who else is going?

It's encouraging to hear the government's planned reform of the state, with Pat McFadden highlighting how digital services can work better for everyone: "Start with something small and try it out. Test it on people. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again." www.gov.uk/government/s...

Excited to get a ticket to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social. Who else will be there?

BREAKING: Bristol’s first ‘safe space’ for people on a night out is to be trialled in the city centre this weekend. Idea comes from a police sergeant whose niece had to wait ages for a bus home one night & was continually approached by men. Full story 👇🏼 www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Still one of my favourites..... Design Is [Messy] : Approaches to engaging with complexity www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZEd...

“Innovation policies are increasingly 'shifting away from top-down and centralised approaches towards policies that favour cooperative, multi-actor and often more 'place-based' approaches”. Read our @lpiphub.bsky.social evidence review on #innovation here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cit...

Changes in global temperature (1850-2023) Find similar graphics for your country or city: www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

How can we transform public service design and delivery by focusing on the power of human relationships? We talked to @nick80.bsky.social and Osian Jones about the work being done at Camden Council to build a new relational approach to public services. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

Brilliant article on alternative approaches to complex problems at scale.

We’re excited to announce the speakers for our upcoming unconference shaping the future of AI policy for creative industries! On 19th November hear from: @mialeslie.bsky.social, Lex Fefegha, Dr Erinma Ochu, Dr Susan Oman, and Henry Cooke! Tickets: lu.ma/q03v8qrb

Don't pace around nervously! Read this new essay by me and Matt Dowse from the Centre for Sociodigital Futures. What if innovation were rethought as if people, rather than firms, are the things that matter most? www.promisingtrouble.net/blog/innovat... @carefultrouble.bsky.social

me: I've lost my writing mojo also me: let me just write and publish a thing I've been stewing on, off & on, since 2018. Anyway. I wrote about Registers, and a National Data Library. Sort of. I'd love to know what you think. torchbox.com/blog/nationa...

I am loving the blogging activity from MHCLG lately, and this is a great provocation for a post-Budget Friday mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/30/w... - skipping to the weekend with daydreams of solve-a-whole-problem systems-level policy design bouncing round my brain.

"Designing public services is a baton relay ultramarathon. We pick it up from those before us, carry it for a bit, and hand the baton to the generation after us." medium.com/the-service-...

Brilliant summary and provocation from Andrew Knight, Anni Leppänen and Susan Cullen on the role of Design in Government. publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/24/t...

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Another interesting, and thought provoking, episode of 'The Great Simplification'. Thanks to Nate Hagens (Who it would be awesome to get on this platform), and @indyjohar.bsky.social www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/147-...

This looks like it's going to be a good one! Professor Leon Cruickshank shares his reflections on going beyond tools to get to the fundamentals of co-design in the public sector. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-design-...

Currently working my way through Jean Boulton’s new book - The dao of complexity. Of all the books on complexity I’ve read (more than I care to admit) this is by far the most accessible.

I love “Game design as a policy-making method” by Matteo Menapace. Creativity x Systems x Policy. medium.com/@baddeo/game...

(Long shot for bluesky) Is there anyone on here who researches psychoanalysis and would be up for chat about what AI might do / not do to public servants ability to understand / reflect on the mental state of those members of the public they support?

A vision for public digital work. Do we need a new one? And if so, what is it? A few reflections. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

I’ve been a huge fan of the work of the Griffith Centre of Systems Innovation. It’s extremely sad they are closing but I am equally excited about what emerges next. medium.com/good-shift/w...

Well, this upends a lot of foresight practices. Check out Dave Snowden's fascinating chapter on complex systems and futures. It's also a great primer for why a complexity-aware approach to systems change is so important. Keen to hear what others think? www.researchgate.net/publication/...