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Martha Edwards @maredwards.bsky.social · 19d

“AI isn’t taking your job, the people making the decisions are”

“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”

“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”

“Be hopeful AND cynical”

Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov

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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 19d

Brilliant keynote from @rdietkus.bsky.social at #sdingov about public services as care.

She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.

“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”

Photo of Rachael speaking. The slide behind her says "the chaos is not normal." With an illustration of a pink elephant.

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 19d

And a great shoutout for betterimagesofai.org - a useful resource for more interesting, less misleading visuals #sdingov

Better Images of AI

We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

betterimagesofai.org

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 19d

Love the focus on choice: we can choose how/if we use AI! Dystopia is not inevitable! @elmosmoe.bsky.social #sdingov

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Samina @meanius.bsky.social · 19d

So many great points being made by Steph Wright on AI in today’s keynote. #sdingov Copilot Agents are here, slowly creeping into our workflows. Local Gov needs more support in how to:

- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 20d

“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”

@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:

reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk

A woman with long dark hair and light skin standing behind a lectern and in front of a large canvas with a projected slide above her, saying: “what’s next? Collecting feedback and ideas, governance model, onboarding more departments, new content: professions, engineering portal” next to a picture of a laptop showing a digital library with the headline “find and reuse digital service elements”

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

The 10 year health plan mentions the NHS App 55 times! How can the NHS App team live up the weight of expectation, manage their roadmap, and avoid becoming a [email protected] #sdingov

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

Reminding us of the scale of the civil service, and the value of looking outside of silos @nikolagoger.bsky.social #sdingov

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

Great to see progress being made on tackling vaccine hesitancy, such an important issue! @carolinefinucane.bsky.social #sdingov

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

Prototyping digital credentials for care leavers @harrytrimble.bsky.social #sdingov

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

Adam Curtis would be proud 🥲 @rdietkus.bsky.social #sdingov

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 20d

Great to see this here:

“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov

A woman with light skin and grey hair standing at a lectern in front of an audience with a projected slide above her saying: “slowing down and taking the time that’s necessary can become the acts of resistance” next to a photograph of a pile of small colourful stickers on top of a note pad

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 21d

“This is a clarification. It’s not new.”— Lucy Kimbell

“
#PublicDesign is an iterative process of generating, legitimising, and achieving policy intent whilst de-risking operational delivery.
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#SDinGov

3 people on a conference stage sitting in front of an audience, 1 woman with grey hair standing at a lectern speaking, a projected slide on top of them says “defining public design — “Public design is an iterative process of generating, legitimising, and achieving policy intent whilst de-risking operational delivery.
It involves a range of practical, creative and collaborative approaches grounded in citizens' day-to-day experiences of - and relations to - people, objects, organisations, communities and places.”; next to it, a version of a policy cycle

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

David’s asking us to look into the future of public design: what do you see? 👀 @the80skid.bsky.social #sdingov

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Jeffrey Allen @jallen300.bsky.social · 21d

"The machine (of government) is breaking before our eyes and if we're not careful it's going to be dismantled," says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social kicking off #SDinGov.

We'll be looking at how to bring a more curious, humble, and systemic mindset to the work of govt tomorrow afternoon.

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely tribute to Vicky - I often still share her blog posts @maredwards.bsky.social #sdingov

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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · 21d

Shout out to everyone at #SDinGov!

I’m not there, but I’ll be following with interest.

A quick reminder that I help maintain a list of all UK gov digital services, including links to service assessments and code: govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

If your service is missing, let me know!

GOV.UK Services List

govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

Nice to see Newton and Hobbs getting shoutouts 🤗@jamestplunkett.bsky.social #sdingov

Slide featuring front pages of books by Hobbs and Newton

smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to be back at #SDinGov !Team Transform is me, David, Franco and Jen this year 🎉 Come say hi if you’re here too 🤗

University campus building with Arthur’s Seat in the background

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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.bsky.social · Jul 24

"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Jul 8

'The Princess Bride' (1987)
dir: Rob Reiner 📽️

grandpa reading a story:
let's see, where were we?
Oh yes, in the pit of despair.

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · Jul 3

I am thrilled to share my upcoming book which is now available for pre-order!

Thank you to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and my amazing agent @juliasreading.bsky.social

Thank you @lizoriordan.bsky.social for the foreword and @iandunt.bsky.social for the endorsement!

linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · Jul 3

"A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people"

Henrik Karlsson, via @jukes.ie

#CampDigital2025

A white man on a conference stage, standing in front of a large screen on which are the words:

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people

Henrick Karlsson

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · Jul 3

Claire Dellar on principles of universal design: low physical effort is as relevant to digital interfaces as it is to the built environment #campdigital

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smcdoyle.bsky.social @smcdoyle.bsky.social · Jul 3

You’re an inspiration 🥰 (A blogging/weeknoting/working-in-the-open inspiration!)

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