The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
senior reporter @ WIRED covering the politics and power influencing the internet
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Love all things collaboration and community. Founder of GovCamp North and Design System Day. Organiser UKGovCamp, Services Week and GovJams.
Currently doing community @gdsteam.
Site: https://www.imranhussain.uk
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design.
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Founder, Curiosity Incubator | IF, Jesus College, Cambridge
Innovation in Govt, learning that works, behavioural science for good. And books
Oscar-Claude Monet was a 19th century French painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 linktr.ee/monet_artbot
I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
11 March 2026 | Virtual, online | virtual.sdingov.net
23-25 September 2026 | Edinburgh | sdingov.net
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services.
Digital governance, music, footy, Halisky, stuttering pride
Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Host - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Nerding out and helping governments deliver better.
Mother of pugs
Football mom (yes this football 🏈)
Former Deputy Minister CSDS
Still doing this digital gov thing. Making progress for people one pixel at a time.
CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
OXD is an end-to-end design and technology consulting firm.
Make New Experiences Possible
Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design and Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov innovation agency), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC
I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
www.cassierobinson.work
🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
Drawn to gardening, writing, systems thinking, org dev, and public sector reform. #OneTeamGov
Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host
Dollars To Donuts podcast
Always focused on eliminating all the poorly-designed products and services from our world. People’s lives are complicated enough. We don’t have to make it worse for them.
You can find me at CenterCentre.com and in the Leaders of Awesomeness community.
Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Technology journalist, CBC broadcaster researching AI and tech ethics
Data Science that Listens - indiyoung.com
Book - Time to Listen indiyoung.com/books/
Systems thinking research for solutions that support human variety. (Fully human made posts & illustrations; no use of AI)
Service design, UX, strategy. Civic tech and sociotechnical systems oh my! 🇨🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 he/him
Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Vice-President of Learning and Leadership at Institute on Governance, Host of the Let’s Think Digital podcast.
policy designer + writer
Managing Director of the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca)
+ Co-author of The Big Fix, which is all about improving Canada’s competition policy
https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-big-fix/
Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
We're a national non-profit that helps governments and non-profits create digital services for the public good.
Sign up for our newsletter for the latest digital government and civic technology news: https://bit.ly/3RhPVj5
Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. 206 for life, unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. The dadjokes don't stop just b/c they've grown & gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
MLA for Vancouver South Granville and Minister of Finance for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. Past tech entrepreneur and non profit leader. Proud Canadian.
BC Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. BC NDP MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain. Community builder.
Victoria, BC, Canada. Legislative Reporter at Global BC. Host of Focus BC. C division curler. Rookie minors baseball coach. He/him.
Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England.
Human muppet trying to be OK in late stage capitalism. From BC in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
I care about Anti-racism, Reconciliation, and Public Service. My ❤️ languages are questions, gifs, or introspection. Your results may vary.
#protecttranskids🏳️🌈
Dad + Canadian Digital Service + Civic Tech Toronto.
Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
People+planet-centred Service Designer / Product Manager
Service Manual & Service Standard, GDS, DSIT
Woke
he/him
Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Independent design consultant, specialising in service design and strategy. Mainly works in public sector. Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
Fire research, practice and extension in northwest BC. Returning to burning with communities and Nations. Also ping pong, surfing, xc skiing.
Director, Digital investment office in the BC Public Service. (Opinions my own) Lifelong learner. Unapologetic introvert. Marathon runner. Cat mom.
VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope.
Principal Polaris Strategy + Insight | Navigating the energy transition | Climate policy & politics | coffee & bicycles | “charter member of the climate-energy wonk club”
Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
ADHD as a career. Startups (Lean Analytics, Startupfest); fixing government (FWD50); subversive thinking (justevilenough.com) Montreal, or seat 13D.
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Head of Design for GOV.UK at GDS. Ex HM Land Registry. Public speaker. Observer of humans. Crisp connoisseur. Yarn hoarder. Northerner.
Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics. These days, that’s happening with/in BC Parks.
Technology in the service of people. Director with Public Digital.
Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://digitalbydefault.com/
Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Contract interaction designer. User-centred design in gov. User experience (UX). Inclusive design and accessibility. Music fan. https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/ He/him
Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Founder and CEO of Content Design London
Cat person with a dog. (And a cat, horse, hamster and fish.)
Really hoping this takes over from the other place.
Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Nurturing design leadership through inspiring events, retreats & community.
www.leadingdesign.com
Brought to you by @clearleft.com
Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/
Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Head of User Research @NHSEngland
(formerly @NHSDigital) and Head of UCD for Digital Primary Care. Cancer and genetics awareness advocate and patient representative..
Views my own.
She/her.
Professionally awkward. Still trying to make government work better for people.
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https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com
Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com