We’re looking for a venue partner who can help with physical space to support this open, community-driven, and free-to-attend event. 🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible) 👥 Size: 100-120 people 📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue

I have a new job. To explain it, let me tell you a story. Have you ever been in the hospital, or with a family member in the hospital, when all the chaos is surrounding you — the busy nurses, the other patients talking, the machines going beep-beep-beep, the occasional… 1/

Starting day 1 of the W3C/IETF TAG & IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access. Adult content, alcohol, social media restrictions, advertising/tracking…We’re looking at the technical and architectural choices in solutions.

Do I know anyone who publishes children’s books? A close friend has inherited several wonderful books originally published in the 1960s, and they’d like to bring them back to the world. Can anyone help?

@paulclarke.com And what would Harry Pearce actually be doing today? “Power failure”…!

This is such a shock. Nick was one of the most human, funniest (often inappropriately so), and kindest people I know. He often reminds me (reminded? reminded) me that it’s not about the tech, it’s about the people. What a loss to our world. Thank you for many years of everything, Nick.

Looking for good teaching material: case study from a low or middle-income country of a healthcare innovation that was successfully adopted and transformed patient outcomes. Got some old examples, looking for a recent one. THANKS if you can suggest. #healthpolicy #digitalhealth

@davidallengreen.bsky.social For reasons I can not fathom, American schools do teach it as “the Magna Carta”. Or at least, they did when I was a kid there. 🤷‍♀️

🚨The UKDayOne think-tank has published a major new paper by @peterkwells.com and @annapowellsmith.bsky.social on how opening up UK geospatial data – including the Postcode Address File – could unlock billions in economic value, modernise public services and foster competition. 🚨

Hey data nerds, Defra has just launched a 'Land Use Consultation' which says government wants to: - make more [geospatial] data accessible for the public benefit - free up more Land Registry data - explore options to increase transparency of land & property data. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Thank you to everyone for another wonderful @ukgovcamp.bsky.social. This year felt cautiously hopeful, enthusiastic, and looking for the spaces in which to do good. Fingers crossed that everyone in the community finds those spaces, whether they be teams, policy areas or tech advances. #UKGC25

Happy first night! 🕎

One of the best parts of Christmas… it’s #duvetKnowItsChristmas A laugh about where we are sleeping tonight, and a few pennies for those who don’t have a bed. Merry merry, all 🎄

If you run an indie or community web service of some kind and are worried about the incoming Online Safety compliance duties, we’ve put together a @carefultrouble.bsky.social mailing list and been in touch with Ofcom to see if they’ll do some engagement buttondown.com/indie-and-co...

For anyone having trouble with the earlier link, the Ethical Web Principles are here www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...

We began the Ethical Web Principles as a W3CTAG doc, to record the ethics behind our architectural decisions & advice. Today, it’s a W3C statement: it’s been endorsed by W3C as a whole Thanks to my co-editors @torgo.com & @rhiaro.co.uk; rest of the TAG; & all who helped www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...

We began the Ethical Web Principles as a W3CTAG doc, to record the ethics behind our architectural decisions & advice. Today, it’s a W3C statement: it’s been endorsed by W3C as a whole Thanks to my co-editors @torgo.com & @rhiaro.co.uk; rest of the TAG; & all who helped www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...

This is fantastic. More of this please!

New to @bsky.app? We’ve got some etiquette just for you! Turn on the little feature that reminds you to post alt text with your images. Alt text allows blind and partially sighted people to understand what's in your images using screen readers. Without alt text, it just says "image".

This is lovely

So many comments I could make on this post, but let’s go with the most important one: I’m so glad they wrote it. Read their wisdom.

While I’m at it, the topic isn’t “data sharing”, it’s “data access”. The words matter. Here we go: #NHS #digitalRecords 1/

Lots of discussion about digital health records in the NHS today. Modernisation, and privacy. But here’s the thing — we DON’T need a massive new database. Here’s how we do it. 1/

While I’m at it, the topic isn’t “data sharing”, it’s “data access”. The words matter. Here we go: #NHS #digitalRecords 1/

Lots of discussion about digital health records in the NHS today. Modernisation, and privacy. But here’s the thing — we DON’T need a massive new database. Here’s how we do it. 1/

Want to chat in the House of Lords about #OpenSource and the Skills Gap? We've got about 20 spaces left for the #OpenUK event on Thursday, November 7th openukskillsroundtable.eventbrite.co.uk

Hats off to @lesteph.bsky.social. What an impact you’ve made: in government, in our country’s public services — and incidentally, in my life. I’m grateful for all the scheming, strategising and dreaming of what’s possible that govcamps have let me be a part of. I’ve learned so much. Thank you 🙏

Starting in 2 weeks! Our @thekingsfund.bsky.social community to support people who are adapting & creating change with tech in the NHS & social care. We know it’s not easy but see the potential for tech done well to help staff & patients. Come join us - www.kingsfund.org.uk/leadership-d...

If you would like to join us tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon for the #NHSHackDay presentations just sign up here nhshackday.com (and you can have some free healthy lunch!) #nhshd

Wishing everyone at #NHSHackDay today creative minds, clean data and smooth debugging. I can’t wait to see what you all make! #NHSHD

Apparently I was Bluesky user #88,132. No one would applaud if I finished 88,132nd in a marathon… I wouldn’t get any concert tickets if that was my place in the queue… It’s hard to believe it’s something to celebrate. Internet-scale is weird.

This is great advice. And also, welcome to all the friends who have recently joined from the digital health and digital government communities! 👋 I’m glad you’re here.

My daughter's placement year position with govt Social Research Service has fallen through. She's busy applying for intern roles eg with MPs & charities but any other suggestions for how to fill her time for the next year, preferably building social policy/research experience?

After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we the W3C TAG wanted to make our position clear. Third-party cookies have got to go. We’ve updated our TAG finding “Third-party cookies must be removed” accordingly. www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc... 1/

This is NOT good for personal data rights on the web. #privacy “Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.” privacysandbox.com/news/privacy...

We’re starting day 1 of W3C Technical Architecture Group face to face meeting in Seattle, with a session on Chrome’s developing Privacy Sandbox APIs to replace third party cookies.

Happy election day — most especially to the people who make it all happen. Wishing a great day to polling station staff, returning officers, ballot box movers, count teams and everyone who makes our elections process work… Cheers to you! #GE2024

The web works because it is a collaboration. No one has full control. We wrote an open letter to the United Nations: the proposed Global Digital Compact threatens this collaborative evolution. That would not be not good. 1/2 #OpenInternet open-internet-governance.org/letter

Sounds like @emfcamp.bsky.social is getting underway! I’m gutted to not be there this year… Hugs to all the friends and fellow hackers and tinkerers. I’ll be keen to see what you make!

I really enjoyed #ukgcXL. Wonderful to see so many old friends, and to scheme with some new ones. Strikes me lots of today’s themes seem constrained by the coming election tho, as everyone waits for new policy directions. I suspect next year’s GovCamp will be a whole new beast.

Ah, you can't do threads on BlueSky. Oh well. Anyway, it’s happening over there right now, raising a bunch of money for Centrepoint at this JustGiving page: www.justgiving.com/page/duvet-x... 2/

There’s this thing called #duvetknowitschristmas. It’s been running for 13 consecutive years, now, in The Other Place Which Cannot Be Mentioned. 1/

This is not surprising — but dramatic to see in such stark numbers.

Insightful wrap-up today from this week’s People’s Panel on AI. A representative group spent the week examining the issues and coming up with recommendations. A thought-provoking discussion to observe. #ConnectedByData

I’m surprised (tho shouldn’t be) how many friends I see at the AI+Society Forum. But — lack of inclusion in AI researchers, harmful content, racists outputs correlating to larger training datasets…These are big problems for all of us. @[email protected]’s talk should be required viewing for all.

This is fantastic

We made banana chocolate chip bread this evening. I took the executive decision to double the chocolate — because the recipe seemed under-chocolated. It was a good decision… but made the bread much gooier and harder to serve. Ah well. Somehow, we suffer through.

That’s day 3 of our #SecureTheWebForward Workshop, from W3C, OWASP, OpenJS, OpenSSF Topics incl’d: -Hardening JS, its supply chain & other web standards -Tooling & doc’n for devs -More in-browser info for end users -Informing policy/regulation Workshop report to follow. Thanks all who contributed!

Where does my NHS patient data go? This work is amazing. Read Jess Morley’s thread (or the Lancet paper) for a breakdown of the issues. And check out this image — I’ve searched my whole career for something this comprehensive and yet simple. #privacy #NHSdata #secondaryUses x.com/jessrmorley/...

I’m sad to hear that Molly has died. She was such a centre of enthusiasm and vision for the open web, and the community around it. She leaves quite a legacy.