Tris Lumley

Open Letter calling for UK Government to adopt a citizen-led UK Declaration of Digital Rights & Principles Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

Following the global #AIsummit in Paris, today we have issued an Open Letter calling on the UK government to urgently develop and adopt a citizen-led UK Declaration of Digital Rights & Principles.❗

✉️ Read the Open Letter ⬇️

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Tech bros hype up AI to the max. Tech bros help dismantle US gov. But still we are all supposed to carry on working out how to harness lovely AI. When shall we start working out what problems we want to tackle and then what tech we want to build to tackle them pls?

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Almost a third of Tesla owners in the Netherlands want to sell their cars A survey by EenVandaag has revealed that more people in the Netherlands are feeling ashamed about owning a Tesla after the behaviour of Elon Musk.

Tesla sales are down 41% in the Netherlands this year, and a third of existing owners want to sell their cars because they don’t want to be associated with Musk www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/d...

Opening Up · Zoom · Luma Opening up knowledge in the charity and philanthropy/grant-making sectors. If you're a consultant, advisor, freelancer to charities or foundations and you want…

Interested in opening up your knowledge work in the social sector? Join us Feb 28th lu.ma/8rh6pq3g or Mar 14th lu.ma/k7tz1njj

Funders' endowments are (all?) invested in big tech, yet they don't see this gives them a stake in the impacts of tech, and a need to engage

Thanks for everything Promising Trouble has brought to civil society, and to me - learned loads from all the fantastic research & ideas!

I know I'm no Gen Z, but why does Google think I want to maintain a streak of reviewing places on Maps? Like an actual marker of pointless addiction...

Am I weird to think most of the conversation about using AI in the charity sector is like doctors in the 1930s recommending smoking healthier, fresher cigarettes? How about not using AI?

First steps toward openness How can you take a first step across a chasm?

Wrote a piece on ways to step towards radical openness in knowledge work without having to leap the chasm in front of you. Featuring Lego and Road Runner medium.com/@trislumley/...

Finding common purpose through the Three Horizons You know that feeling when a realisation is just in the corner of your mind, and you can almost but not quite see it in full? That’s how…

I wrote a thing about strategy and common purpose: “Finding common purpose through the Three Horizons“ by Tris Lumley on Medium: medium.com/@trislumley/...

Back to the future: reinventing tech intentionally When we look at the artefacts of digital technology today — our devices, the platforms and services we use — and the ways they infuse our…

Hi folks! I wrote a thing about our need to reshape digital technology intentionally - and an initiative I'm working on to put young people at the heart of this medium.com/@trislumley/...