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Kathryn Corrick
@kcorrick.bsky.social
Human centred and responsible strategy, data & innovation
Loves teaching and transformation

Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management
#opendata #netzero

France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
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I think it would be really positive to see bespoke assistive tech: transcription tools that work for folks with dyslexia might be diff to ones that work for ppl with ADHD. Different D/deaf people may have different requirements, depending on many factors. Think that is prob specialist research.
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I've got a copy and yes I'm absolutely using this account to get the message out about my friend's project.

If you're reading this and in anyway running a retro computing or code project - do get in touch with Matt and see if there's any way you can help get the message out to your audience.
Friend of Yore Computer, Matt Round, has made a modern type-in magazine of HTML games. Figured that would be of interest to you lot - buy a copy vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I really feel for these students and others being taught this way. It's disrespectful at best.

I can also see how under funding pressures, that this may have come about. That's not to excuse it but it should make us pause as to where to lay blame. This is a system problem rather than single course
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Ofcom has received a short extension to answer the US complaint filed by 4chan/KF re enforcement of Online Safety Act www.courtlistener.com/docket/71209...

Ofcom declares 'sovereign immunity' in free speech battle with US website www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

#censorship #openweb #techpolicy
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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EU tech law

Amazon loses legal challenge to being designated a 'very large online platform' (therefore subject to extra regulation) under the Digital Services Act

Some thoughts 1/
#EUGeneralCourt dismisses @Amazon’s action against the @EU_Commission’s decision designating Amazon Store as a “very large online platform” #DSA 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
Court of Justice of the European Union
curia.europa.eu
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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DH has reannounced their lack of progress on business models for NHS IP. On that same basis, here’s what we said in January which is a minor tweak from 2019
medconfidential.org/2025/busines...
Business Models for Data (2025)  – What hasn’t worked, what has, and what to do next | medConfidential
medconfidential.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"We're all trying to find the guy that did this"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The fast-moving innovations around AI bring new opportunities & new challenges to the #civictech world - & to #democracy more widely. See how & where mySociety is applying AI, and then hear from stakeholders what a good future looks like for our international conference #TICTeC. youtu.be/B5YuXv1CkGM
TICTeC 25: The future of tech, the future of TICTeC: Navigating AI in Pro-Democracy Tech
Speakers: Louise Crow, Alex Parsons, Julia Cushion from mySociety Maria Vitoria Ramos of Fiquem Sabendo Matt Stempeck of the Civic Tech Field Guide Thanisara Ruangdej (GG), WeVis, Thailand As the…
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
There's an amazing set of suggestions here. Thank you everyone.

In addition to these I'd also add:
- Data portals: dataportals.org/search/
- The Civic Tech Field Guide: civictech.guide for inspiration and community finding
- Getting started on Open Street Map osmuk.org/getting-star...
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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The government doesn’t see UK data assets as priorities at all - includes ONS. Did the idea of a ‘National Data Library’ & data infrastructure in the AI Opps Action Plan just evaporate?
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
If you’re a Windows user looking to avoid upgrading to 11, there are now some more user friendly versions of Linux around such as www.linuxmint.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.

This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳

www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Let there be warmth! The British churches putting their faith in heat pumps
Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of decarbonisation
www.thereengineer.pro
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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And @jwyg.bsky.social's brilliant new Public Data Cultures also offers much inspiration - and critical learning from decades of open data www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jona...
www.hive.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In further #opendata starting points, a lovely plug from Tim and work from the Data for Development team.
If you're looking for big picture view and inspiration on AI in many sectors, can I offer a plug for the State of Open Data book? www.d4d.net/state-of-ope... (and the 2024 update).

I've a few printed copies spare I could share if of interest
resource-centre
www.d4d.net
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Great reminder of the fantastic work done to put the Open Data Handbook together. If you’ve not come across it it’s a really good starting point for understanding, publishing and using #opendata.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Our World in Data! @ourworldindata.org

All their work is very open and accessible. Great resource to learn about open data at the different stages. It is also an amazing data product on itself with real impact.

ourworldindata.org
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
ourworldindata.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This is tremendously short-sighted - if you don't hire junior people, where are your experienced, senior people going to come from in 10 years' time?
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."

nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.

Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Open data friends,

If you could recommend only one resource (book, website, organisation, social media account, video, tool, other) what would you recommend to someone starting on their #opendata journey?

Something that will help them learn and explore.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM