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Advancing trust in data.
How can AI be used for industries with strict data regulations? Catch up on this webinar from our data-centric AI series and take a deep dive into the topic.
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DCAI Webinar#8
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November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#TheWeekinData: Nobody’s going to burst my bubble
* AI warning, bubble reinflates
* EU AI regulation delayed
* School attendance? Not so fast…
The head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet warned this week that if the AI bubble bursts, every company would be affected. Find out more…
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* AI warning, bubble reinflates
* EU AI regulation delayed
* School attendance? Not so fast…
The head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet warned this week that if the AI bubble bursts, every company would be affected. Find out more…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#TheWeekinData: Nobody’s going to burst my bubble
* AI warning, bubble reinflates
* EU AI regulation delayed
* School attendance? Not so fast…
The head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet warned this week that if the AI bubble bursts, every company would be affected. Find out more…
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* AI warning, bubble reinflates
* EU AI regulation delayed
* School attendance? Not so fast…
The head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet warned this week that if the AI bubble bursts, every company would be affected. Find out more…
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Join our #hackathon and help make #volunteering opportunities easier to find and share. We need you to test the first draft of a new data standard and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. Sign up now
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November 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Join our #hackathon and help make #volunteering opportunities easier to find and share. We need you to test the first draft of a new data standard and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. Sign up now
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Better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS. Embedding data standards can help professionals recommend activities for rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term conditions. Learn more.
Data infrastructure for a healthy nation
Learn more about how better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS. Embedding data standards can help professionals recommend activities for rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term conditions. Learn more.
The Open Data Maturity Model is a way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement. You can explore the tool now!
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Open Data Maturity Model
The Open Data Maturity Model is a way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The Open Data Maturity Model is a way to assess how well an organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identifies actions for improvement. You can explore the tool now!
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Join our FREE webinar Why open data matters in the age of AI - and the steps we need to take to ensure data is truly AI ready. Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and creates hidden problems. Find out the steps we need to take to mitigate this. buff.ly/QJkrXiW
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join our FREE webinar Why open data matters in the age of AI - and the steps we need to take to ensure data is truly AI ready. Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and creates hidden problems. Find out the steps we need to take to mitigate this. buff.ly/QJkrXiW
While AI may often seem to exist abstractly in cyberspace, it is also driving major supply chains of both materials and labour. This report explores the data work behind AI models and the key ways in which it is evolving in a rapidly changing AI landscape.
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Mapping the role of data work in AI supply chains
Explore the data work behind AI models and the key ways in which it is evolving in a rapidly changing AI landscape.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can you help us make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share? Join our hackathon to test and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. 3–4 December 2025, find out more
Open Data Infrastructure for Volunteering Hackathon.
Join us to help make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share
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November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can you help us make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share? Join our hackathon to test and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. 3–4 December 2025, find out more
#TheWeekinData: On Fridays we just chill
* Data reveals food deserts
* Anthropic data centre deal
* Used an AI on a Monday…
Research published by the University of Nottingham has used data from Londoners’ food shopping to pinpoint ‘food deserts’ across the UK capital. Find out more…
* Data reveals food deserts
* Anthropic data centre deal
* Used an AI on a Monday…
Research published by the University of Nottingham has used data from Londoners’ food shopping to pinpoint ‘food deserts’ across the UK capital. Find out more…
On Fridays we just chill
Your round-up of the latest, greatest data stories
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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#TheWeekinData: On Fridays we just chill
* Data reveals food deserts
* Anthropic data centre deal
* Used an AI on a Monday…
Research published by the University of Nottingham has used data from Londoners’ food shopping to pinpoint ‘food deserts’ across the UK capital. Find out more…
* Data reveals food deserts
* Anthropic data centre deal
* Used an AI on a Monday…
Research published by the University of Nottingham has used data from Londoners’ food shopping to pinpoint ‘food deserts’ across the UK capital. Find out more…
Missed our webinar exploring #data transparency and #AI? You can catch up now and explore the gap in research on data transparency and AI development.
DCAI Webinar#7
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November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and can lead to hidden problems for AI, while biased data negatively affects the performance of AI models. In our research, we seek to define AI readiness and its underlying principles. Read more.
A framework for AI-ready data
Define AI readiness and its underlying principles through our new research.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Data is the foundation of AI. Poor quality data drives up costs and can lead to hidden problems for AI, while biased data negatively affects the performance of AI models. In our research, we seek to define AI readiness and its underlying principles. Read more.
Catch up on all of our data-centric AI webinars in one place! Watch Prof Elena Simperl discuss topics from data scraping to the future of public services with a range of fantastic guests, all world experts with their research and experience.
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Learn from world experts on the data in AI
Want to learn more about AI? Join our webinar series and learn from AI experts.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We attended the three main party conferences and recently hosted a cross-sector webinar to follow up. Here's our round-up, exploring how the major parties used the autumn gatherings to test their narratives and did their best to revive their appeal. Find out more.
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Conference season on data & AI
Find out what the parties signalled - and what the UK needs next.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#TheWeekinData: Let everybody eat cake!
* Is the AI bubble about to burst?
* AI health applications
* A week of finals
Doom mongers around the globe muttered ‘we told you so’ this week as fears that the AI bubble was about to burst. Find out more...
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* Is the AI bubble about to burst?
* AI health applications
* A week of finals
Doom mongers around the globe muttered ‘we told you so’ this week as fears that the AI bubble was about to burst. Find out more...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#TheWeekinData: Let everybody eat cake!
* Is the AI bubble about to burst?
* AI health applications
* A week of finals
Doom mongers around the globe muttered ‘we told you so’ this week as fears that the AI bubble was about to burst. Find out more...
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* Is the AI bubble about to burst?
* AI health applications
* A week of finals
Doom mongers around the globe muttered ‘we told you so’ this week as fears that the AI bubble was about to burst. Find out more...
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Join our FREE webinar exploring Advertising & Ethics with Data Ethics Professional & social advertising specialist Laura Jayne Streets. We'll be discussing advertising through the lens of data ethics and inclusive practice; what inform audience selection and proxy data points. buff.ly/kDBSHrO
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Join our FREE webinar exploring Advertising & Ethics with Data Ethics Professional & social advertising specialist Laura Jayne Streets. We'll be discussing advertising through the lens of data ethics and inclusive practice; what inform audience selection and proxy data points. buff.ly/kDBSHrO
#TheWeekinData: Who you gonna call?
* Warnings over AI chatbot use by teens
* Afghan data leak toll
* Don’t stop believing
New research published by Male Allies UK this week found that over a third of boys in secondary school would consider having an AI friend. Find out more…
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* Warnings over AI chatbot use by teens
* Afghan data leak toll
* Don’t stop believing
New research published by Male Allies UK this week found that over a third of boys in secondary school would consider having an AI friend. Find out more…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#TheWeekinData: Who you gonna call?
* Warnings over AI chatbot use by teens
* Afghan data leak toll
* Don’t stop believing
New research published by Male Allies UK this week found that over a third of boys in secondary school would consider having an AI friend. Find out more…
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* Warnings over AI chatbot use by teens
* Afghan data leak toll
* Don’t stop believing
New research published by Male Allies UK this week found that over a third of boys in secondary school would consider having an AI friend. Find out more…
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Join us for an essential discussion on Diversity in Tech. We’ll be asking when data isn’t representative or algorithms reflect our inequalities, technology can deepen bias instead of breaking it. So how do we build systems that are fair, transparent, and trustworthy? Book now
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October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Join us for an essential discussion on Diversity in Tech. We’ll be asking when data isn’t representative or algorithms reflect our inequalities, technology can deepen bias instead of breaking it. So how do we build systems that are fair, transparent, and trustworthy? Book now
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DCMS has commissioned a @odihq.bsky.social initiative to make data about volunteering more accessible
Charities minister backs project to make volunteering data more accessible
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
DCMS has commissioned a @odihq.bsky.social initiative to make data about volunteering more accessible
We’ve begun a new initiative with Do IT and Team Kinetic, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to make data about volunteering more accessible, enabling people to find opportunities and organisations to attract the help they need. Learn more.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We’ve begun a new initiative with Do IT and Team Kinetic, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to make data about volunteering more accessible, enabling people to find opportunities and organisations to attract the help they need. Learn more.
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Have you booked our FREE webinar with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the distinguished authority in artificial intelligence? Don’t miss out, join this exclusive event for a deep dive into the critical issues shaping data and AI today. Book now!
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October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Have you booked our FREE webinar with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the distinguished authority in artificial intelligence? Don’t miss out, join this exclusive event for a deep dive into the critical issues shaping data and AI today. Book now!
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#TheWeekinData: Cloudbusting
*AWS apologises for 14-hour outage
*Thirsty data centres need not bleed the UK dry
*NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI
It was a week of disruption with Amazon’s outage affecting everyone from Snapchat to the Lloyds Bank Group.
*AWS apologises for 14-hour outage
*Thirsty data centres need not bleed the UK dry
*NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI
It was a week of disruption with Amazon’s outage affecting everyone from Snapchat to the Lloyds Bank Group.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#TheWeekinData: Cloudbusting
*AWS apologises for 14-hour outage
*Thirsty data centres need not bleed the UK dry
*NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI
It was a week of disruption with Amazon’s outage affecting everyone from Snapchat to the Lloyds Bank Group.
*AWS apologises for 14-hour outage
*Thirsty data centres need not bleed the UK dry
*NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI
It was a week of disruption with Amazon’s outage affecting everyone from Snapchat to the Lloyds Bank Group.
Join us for the online launch of CoCoDa (Concentration of Control and Data) 20 November, a multi-year project in collaboration with academia to investigate systemic risks in society that arise from large-scale digital platforms.
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CoCoDa Project Launch: Making Online Platforms Accountable
Building the technical and legal solutions to address the risks from social media and recommender systems.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Join us for the online launch of CoCoDa (Concentration of Control and Data) 20 November, a multi-year project in collaboration with academia to investigate systemic risks in society that arise from large-scale digital platforms.
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Join our FREE webinar and be part of an exclusive event with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the distinguished authority in artificial intelligence, as he examines the critical issues defining data and AI. Book now! buff.ly/ulweHQZ+
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Join our FREE webinar and be part of an exclusive event with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the distinguished authority in artificial intelligence, as he examines the critical issues defining data and AI. Book now! buff.ly/ulweHQZ+
#TheWeekinData: Organic reading material
* Data centres in rural India
* ICO fine for Capita
* Organic literature
Alphabet announced this week that it will invest $15 billion to build an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Find out more…
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* Data centres in rural India
* ICO fine for Capita
* Organic literature
Alphabet announced this week that it will invest $15 billion to build an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Find out more…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#TheWeekinData: Organic reading material
* Data centres in rural India
* ICO fine for Capita
* Organic literature
Alphabet announced this week that it will invest $15 billion to build an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Find out more…
buff.ly/ilcv1ls
* Data centres in rural India
* ICO fine for Capita
* Organic literature
Alphabet announced this week that it will invest $15 billion to build an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Find out more…
buff.ly/ilcv1ls
Last chance to book our free webinar, Data Ethics Professional #9: Earning trust in AI. In today’s AI-driven world, trust isn’t optional—it’s the foundation of innovation. Jesslyn Dymond, TELUS Data & Trust, unpacks the critical role of data ethics in the age of AI.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Last chance to book our free webinar, Data Ethics Professional #9: Earning trust in AI. In today’s AI-driven world, trust isn’t optional—it’s the foundation of innovation. Jesslyn Dymond, TELUS Data & Trust, unpacks the critical role of data ethics in the age of AI.
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