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Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Report after report recommends Civil Service Reform - but it never happens. Here's why:-
ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/civil-serv...
Includes references to writing by @andrewgreenway.bsky.social , @samfr.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social
The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
Nearly 800 people responded to a simple question from the Bevan Commission and Llais:
If you could break or change any rule to provide a better care experience in Wales, what would it be?
bevancommission.org/silly-rules-...
"Gwnewch y pethau bychain" - do the small things. - Compounding impact - Collective transformation
Happy St Davidβs Day.
He famously said: "Gwnewch y pethau bychain" - do the small things.
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"Gwnewch y pethau bychain" - Effaith sy'n cronni - Trawsnewid ar y cyd
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Sant Hapus.
βGwnewch y pethau bychain.β
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The first chapter on "a better government" is v. interesting...
"people centred", "open and transparent", "measurable outcomes", "test and learn"
Political parties don't often focus on ways of working/culture in government.
For those of us in early-GDS who kept track of the Chief Mousers, this is very sad news. I am however very glad Palmerston enjoyed their retirement in Bermuda.
Badly written consultation questions are a perfect invite for a judicial review. Itβs amazing how often government forgets about the Gunning principles test.
Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
β οΈ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
McSweeney. Starmer. Mandelson. Enough
Can we please re-centre and focus on what Epstein is about.
Justice for these women.
Stopping this shit so no more women, girls have to go through this again.
Dywedodd y Prif Weinidog wrth @willhaycardiff.bsky.social ei bod yn anfodlon gyda chyflymder trawsnewid digidol. Rydyn ni hefyd.
Maeβr broblem yn systemig - mae gennym amgylchedd lle maeβn haws siarad am newid nag yw hi iβw gyflawni mewn gwirionedd.
Darllenwch ein hymateb, a sut iβw drwsio.
The FM told @willhaycardiff.bsky.social she's frustrated with the pace of digital transformation. We are too.
The problem is systemic - we have an environment where it is easier to talk about change than to actually do it.
Read our response, and how to fix it.
Interestingly, Iβve noticed a few local stations missing/not showing. Both Shell garages. Looks like they *are* providing data though the scheme though.
www.shell.co.uk/fuel-prices-data.html
I've written a piece for the @econ-observatory.bsky.social on the history of GDS. Notably, why you need change both top down and bottom up incentives if you're aiming to help a large, federated organisation adopt radical change.
You can thank @daverog.bsky.social for that particular analogy:
public.digital/pd-insights/...
Find out more in the PD newsletter: www.linkedin.com/posts/dafydd...
And order a copy:
public.digital/pd-technolog...
Itβs a collection of essays from my colleagues, edited by me, on the culture and leadership conditions that make tech work. We dig into: digital sovereignty π°, tech spaghetti π, leadership debt πΈ, knowing when to stop π and weathering a crisis π₯.
Really excited to share a thing I've been working on: a new book from @publicdigital.bsky.social on shaping technology for transformation.
Tech is a fundamental part of every organisation - but they're often hamstrung by layers of digital geology, alongside huge pressure to chase the latest hype.
"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised."
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
Itβs part of Franceβs open source collaboration software suite that other governments can adopt and run.
Three errors here. First, in confusing some kind of SEND classification (20%) with EHCPs (5.5%).
Secondly in assuming it gives automatic right to DLA. Though there is a strong ECHP/DLA overlap.
Third in assuming that those moving to DLA to PIP never work (it's not an out of work benefit).
The insanity of UK public bodies threatening other UK public bodies with the apparent intention of limiting the reuse of UK address data. Meanwhile the rest of the world has long recognised that postal address data is critical digital public infrastructure in the 21st century.
If you - like me - are totally baffled by the complete incoherence of the Labour Partyβs positioning ahead of #Senedd26, this thread from RWJ shines a bit of light on the already glaring inconsistencies in the FMβs speech on Labourβs constitutional aims for the futurenof #Wales. π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώππ
#FWD50
For reasons I canβt remember, it didnβt really work, and content designers didnβt take to it, so it got retired. But very cool something similar is now live and working.
Ah! I was just searching for this, but couldnβt remember what it was called. The team prototyped this back in 2013. github.com/alphagov/fac...
Mark working on his laptop at a mySociety retreat. Behind him, an upright piano is festooned with coloured Post-It notes.
In tribute to Mark Longair: www.mysociety.org/2026/01/15/a...
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Yes: we spent unfathomable millions on a bridge to nowhere because process forced us to. But we also spent Β£100m on an unusable prison because of recklessness about process. State capacity is not a problem that bold leadership will magically resolve.
open.substack.com/pub/howtorun...
