Tim Davies (@timdavies.org.uk)

Tim Weeknotes Lots of update in these, rather sporadic week month notes. East Coast and West Coast In the middle of September I had a week in the USA, anchored around a draft paper I was presenting at the World Bank Global Forum on Coalitions for Reform (still in review, more on that soon hopefully), but building in the opportunity to catch-up with friends and colleagues in Ithaca, Washington, New York and the Bay Area. Thanks to kind hosting by Joe Foti at the Open Government Partnership I was able to run a hybrid workshop on draft principles for public participation in AI procurement (see below) at the Open Gov Hub, and the timing of the trip worked out just right to be able to join the Open Environmental Data Project for a convening on climate data infrastructures on Oakland (hosted in a building just next door to the home of one of my favourite infrastructure/architecture podcasts). I was also able to catch up with some of the team from the Collective Intelligence Project, and with leaders of https://connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/2025/10/09/tim-weeknotes