On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we will hold the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

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

As the the Open Government Community, Connected by Data amongst them, meet in Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain this week, they will reaffirm a commitment to the Open Government Declaration, with it’s central focus on supporting civic participation. In the new Vitoria-Gasteiz Declaration they will also highlight the need to link open government with broader global agendas, including the governance of “artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies”, providing renewed backing for the idea that “public participation in civic life” must extend to the public decisions about data and digital.

This preliminary mapping study, carried out for the Open Government Partnership, seeks to identify the organisations and institutions leading work and thinking on participatory digital governance, and to identify examples of promising practice that might be used in case studies, communications or peer-learning, with a view to informing future SMART recommendations for reforms that could be explored by Open Government Partnership stakeholders.

On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we will hold the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

Learning from decades of global convening on climate change, AI Governance must place local lived experiences at its heart, write Tim Davies and Anna Colom.

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

This session is part of The Campaign Fringe, an all-day gathering of progressive campaigners and experts exploring bold ideas, practical tools, and best…

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

This session is part of The Campaign Fringe, an all-day gathering of progressive campaigners and experts exploring bold ideas, practical tools, and best…

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

This session is part of The Campaign Fringe, an all-day gathering of progressive campaigners and experts exploring bold ideas, practical tools, and best…

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

This session is part of The Campaign Fringe, an all-day gathering of progressive campaigners and experts exploring bold ideas, practical tools, and best…

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.