🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨 - Tues 18 Nov, 530 for 6pm - Online & SW1 - Welsh Govt on StatsWales reimagined - Office for Statistics Regulation on the new Code of Practice - GLA on the Data for London Library - ONS on Census 2031 topic consultation and user insight Join us! public.digital/events/data-...

Thanks @jacattell.bsky.social for sharing this video with me m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8j... - love this @jukes.ie

Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty @nextcloud.bsky.social nextcloud.com/blog/austria... ditching my US cloud provider too!

Just in case, for some reason, you are not already signed up to the snappily titled Nonprofit data jobs newsletter... you can view this week's here buttondown.com/likeaword/ar... (and sign up to have it emailed to you in the future)

Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

🗣️ Our next Community of Practice speakers are announced! Julian from @opendatamcr.bsky.social on developing principles for putting residents at the heart of how automated decision making is used; and Louise from GDS. 💻 Zoom 🗓️ Wed 14, 2-3pm GMT 🎟️ Free, register: connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Looking for a summer internship? @openuk has a *paid* internship from May-August, for a UK-based intern interested in digital and policy. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrocktech_looking-for-a-summer-internship-openuk-activity-7326630298652192768-UWm- Please share 😃

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Fantastic to attend Women in Data #WID Still amazes me that #data is not routinely split by gender resulting in harms for everyone.

Big job leading the UK Government's "mission to better use its data as part of the National Data Strategy": Deputy Director, Data Strategy at the Government Digital Service www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... (If you think GDS is the right place to do that.) #datastrategy #govtech

Amazing to publish our TPR data strategy today #data #Savers #Pensions www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...

Attended an excellent event tonight hosted by startupcoalition.io on Making Open Finance happen. #data #open

Very useful summary of how the fully open source Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 is beating OpenAI at its own game venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...

The UK AI Opportunity Plan and Gov's response is now live... There's lots to comb through, but a few first thoughts below 🧵(1/8). www.gov.uk/government/p... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

#OpenSource Nerds Assemble! The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*. sessionize.com/state-of-ope... State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM. We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open technology.

📣Job klaxon📣 Another brilliant job in my team. This one is to lead our Data Quality & Requirements team. Come join us! Check out this job at The Pensions Regulator: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40... #data #jobs

Happy Data (Use and Access) Bill Day to all who celebrate! It’s Second Reading in the Lords today – the first chance for peers to debate the detail of the Bill Bill docs from: - Parliament bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825 - Government www.gov.uk/government/c...

OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... (US) Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. – Order on Motion to Dismiss www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290... #genAI #IPlaw #AIlaw #techlaw

#GenerativeAI is impacting on workers now, and increasingly. Our recent Connected Conversations with provocations from @jenitennison.com, Janis Wong, Aparna Surendra and Adio Dinika, discussed #WorkerRights in relation to #data and #AI. connectedbydata.org/events/2024-...

At The Pensions Regulator, we’ve published our DDaT Strategy. Take a look 👀 #DDAT #data #digital #tech #opendata www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/media-hub...

Fascinating discussion on #PoliticsLive today about the role of #Data and #Analytics in shaping the NHS. Great to hear conversations on data and analytics becoming mainstream

Looking forward to this event with Data Orchard and seeing what has changed. #data #maturity www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/launc...

Kicking off at the IRM Data, AI and Analytics conferences. We’re celebrating 21 years of DAMA UK today too 😊#DAIA24 #data #damauk

📣Calling all energy and data people📣 ⚡Open Data Manchester is running an Electricity Data Dive with Electricity North West and Kraken on 5th November. If you're interested in the data behind our electricity generation, supply and usage, this is for you 👉 bit.ly/ODM-SPARK

Trying to pull all/most of the responses to this together, I've put together some of my own reflections on the big questions around the "digital centre" here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/10...

New #dataprotection audit framework launched to help organisations improve compliance ico.org.uk/about-the-ic... from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Related: Accountability Framework ico.org.uk/for-organisa...

Love this stat! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #910,933! #data #stats

Kicking off the #ThinkData event with Jonathan Roberts, Chief Data Officer at the Ministry of Justice. It's fascinating to see how the data challenges we face are remarkably similar across industries.

🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨 It’s the first Weds of the month, which is normally Data Bites day! There’s no event today – but I'll have news soon on future dates For the uninitiated (lucky you), Data Bites is a monthly meetup showcasing interesting data projects in govt...

Do you have an #OpenData demo that you'd like to show off to a friendly crowd? We ( OpenUK ) are having an open data meet up on 17th September in London. www.meetup.com/openuk/event... If you'd like to show something - please drop me a message.

Coming to #odcamp 9 in Manchester this weekend? You should have received an email with details of timings, etc., but in case it's got lost, we posted teh information to the webiste www.odcamp.uk/odcamp-9-att... Also, there a a few tickets left if you'd like to come along. #opendata

Open Data Camp 9 will be in held in Manchester on the 6th and 7th July 2024 Tickets are available now, are free and doing brisk business www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-...

It's happening! See you there?

The Internet of Public Service jobs is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukes.ie 🧵 for this week -

Open Data Camp is going back to Manchester! Open Data Camp 9 July 6 & 7, 2024 Keep an eye on odcamp.uk, for more information, coming soon. #odcamp #opendata

Hello everyone! Watch this space for announcements about OD Camp 9, coming soon... 🎉

📢 As an enthusiast of #mapping, #opendata and #innovation I'm thrilled to invite you to the #webinar #openstreetmap's role in fostering collaboration and driving innovation. Join me on Mar 14 at 10:30 AM (CET) for an insightful journey into OSM's impactful as a common good ti.to/ngi/maurizio...

On my way to catch up with the DAMA UK crew! Looking at how we can continue to serve the needs of data professionals in the UK #data #damauk www.dama-uk.org

This weeks newsletter jobs in one handy🧵

#SOOCON24 great talk on open source and the business model around maintaining open source. Dr Allan Friedman “Hackers are the immune system of the internet”

📢Job klaxon📢 Calling all #DataEngineers! Your chance to join our great Data Services Team at the Pensions Regulator. As a forward-thinking team, helping to keep > £2trn of savings safe & positively impacting millions of lives for decades to come www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/about-us/...

Now in its 17th year, UKGovCamp is the unconference for people interested in public sector digital, data and technology. Next event is all day Saturday 20 January 2024 in central London. See www.ukgovcamp.com for more. Registration closes 1730 Friday. See our 2023 video youtu.be/M1hD_Dyb8Zg

🚨 NEW YEAR, NEW DATA BITES 🚨 And what a brilliant line up we have for our 48th event on Monday 26 February, a smart data special with Smart Data Research UK Sign up to join us in person @instituteforgov.bsky.social or online: bit.ly/IFGDataBites48

At Think Data for government conference today. Interesting stat quoted was that data was worth £165 billion to the UK economy last year. Excellent panel chairing by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social #thinkdata

This weeks #jobs newsletter has some BIG roles - tinyletter.com/jukesie/lett...

Hey folks, have you registered for UkGovCamp2024 returning on Sat 20 Jan?! An attendee-led event focused on improving public services. It’s FREE to attend, we’ve got lunch covered & there’s even creche available. Register to be part of the magic! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ukgcXL

My son is on the Berkshire Young People’s Diabetics Council & are raising awareness of Type 1 diabetes. 🩸💪 They’ve just launched the “Hypo to Hero” podcast, sharing their experiences and insights. Listen here: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/9f6... #Type1Diabetes #HypoToHero #ProudParent