This is brilliant - 5 simple heuristics for making change on big and complex problems nesta.org.uk/blog/insights-…

.Harry Scott-Trimble explores using #DigitalProof to make delivering and accessing public services easier. The more public services someone needs, the more they have to prove facts about themselves. It's a slog for government too. So, what can we do? bit.ly/44fGvaF

Interesting use of openness as a competitive strategy - Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release large openly licensed map data michelletan.substack.com/p/why-meta-mic…

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A Sunday game for digital geeks: What institutions are we missing when it comes to public digital infrastructure? I’m thinking long-term - ones we should build in the next 10 years. My starter list to critique/build on: 🧵

I'm looking for an Executive Director for Digital to join my top team CitizensAdvice. We're a people-centred service with digital at the heart of all we do, from advice to the data that powers our amazing advocacy, and a big strategic agenda. Interested? jobtrain.co.uk/citizensadvice…

As generative AI creates content that proliferates online, does it pollute the very lake from which it drinks? Presuming it is less valuable to train on inauthentic data. Maybe this will even constrain the ability to train future models?

“My action was to literally uphold the law,” she said. “This is a gross abuse of state power. It is a chilling attack on freedom of speech and should concern everyone.” Trudi Warner now faces contempt of court proceedings – just for holding a placard. goodlaw.social/gcr

I'm old enough to remember "Photoshop could never be a web app"

Last few tickets available for #UKCharityCamp next week. If you can get to Birmingham next Thursday and want to join an unconference for the #ThirdSector, drop us an email 🙂 📧 [email protected]

My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks Neontribe for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/ref…

Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 It's a pivotal moment, and the Museums Association published the following. As, you know, there can't be "free and creative" choice in just, err... copying images. The general market trend is slowly towards Creative Commons anyway... /26 museumsassociation.org/museums-journa…

If anyone was in doubt about ai changing everything

So much of the UK needs improving. But we don't have money to throw at problems, so the attention needs to be on how we do things instead. This is the clearest argument I've seen for how we can improve our public services. By Nesta and Public Digital options2040.co.uk/the-radical-ho…

Interesting ideas for how monopolies for local gov digital services could be disrupted and those services rebuilt on sustainable open source components. medium.com/@maltbyps/yet-…