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I’ve written a briefing note on the social impact of the National Data Strategy. I would like to say it’s short but unfortunately it’s 6000 words long. There’s a very

Fun little nugget I just discovered in the National Data Strategy is the action in s.4.2.1 to “implement the recommendations of the Joined up data in government” paperhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/joined-up-data-in-governme

Today we’re sharing the findings from Glimmers - a real-time investigation into technology and civil society. We’ve looked at how communities and charities digitally transformed at speed since March —

Good morning good morning. Listening to this evidence session on UK ARPA.https://twitter.com/CommonsSTC/status/1313759053655478273 Always v impressed with Greg Clarke’s chairing of this committee - noting that he is picking up on

The UK National Data Strategy takes a v optimistic line on algorithmic and data bias in S. 2.5: “We can harness data as part of struggles to tackle bias and

I absolutely get the need for ambitious, galvanising language but describing rolling out a mass testing programme as “Operation Moonshot” makes me really, very uncomfortable https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-lo

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks embroiled in speeches, policy docs and Cummings’ blog posts, trying to suss out whether there’s any possibility of getting to an equitable tech

So, my very unsexy opinion about both the A Levels algorithm and the months’ long digital contact tracing farrago is that deploying technology without proper supporting structures and governance is

If you’re thinking of applying for the No 10 skunkworks job, you should prob read Cummings’ massive PDF (?) on DARPA and PARC and the romanticism of there being “no

I know there are more important things, and no one cares about government comms as much as I do, *but* just re-upping the Rishi Sunak personal brand situation. There are

When I wrote this https://www.doteveryone.org.uk/2019/11/better-than-ethics/ last year I hadn’t yet read @schock’s Design Justice or @laurenfklein @kanarinka’s Data Feminism, which have me reframe more succinctly: tech ethics should r

What, please, is the German compound word for the worry and fury caused being good at spotting second-order effects and not being able to do anything about them. Feeling v