Welcomed Nick Walsh I Am Here to Stats NZ for a kōrero around mental health, wellbeing across our tīma and 2 share mahi stories in Aotearoa. Timely for Mental Health Awareness Week;as we create conditions where people can bring their best selves to our spaces and services:)

I am still processing that game today, 12 hours later (not looking forward to work tomorrow!) - the team did us proud; awesome run, tournament - but still....😭😭

An unintended (I assume!) consequence of GenAI, and should be of concern to everybody. I've seen many examples where incorrect image content is displayed against name searches (usually news), which of course is problematic, but this is another level 😲 theguardian.com/media/2023/oct…

really informative, engaging (and at times confronting!) sessions Microsoft GovTech Futures event, lots to ponder and plan for; included a fascinating look at cybersecurity trends and threats arising out of the conflict in Ukraine…and of course, AI was a recurring topic

A lot of AI dazzlement across executive cohorts in public service at mo. While i admire and encourage future thinking, there’s scope for ill considered decisions in this space. Some fundamental technical, structural, strategic and cultural issues to address first. Be ethical.

Good to read some pro-solutioning content!:)...have thought about this many times in terms of efficiency, and once validation is an ongoing thing - this can save time...context everything but defo room for this visitmy.website/2024/01/30/sta…

'Virtual International Keynote' Government Chief Data Officer 4 Estonia Ott Velsberg #DigiGovNZ - lessons learned: * Improve search / access to data * Ensure data and metadata quality * Reusability, open source works (hallelujah! :)) * Start small, iterate, measure, iterate!

2nd day #DigiGovNZ - the **Singapore government** journey in rolling out common reusable components ; the **Trust Tairāwhiti** mahi to measure and understand impacts of their work , to the final panel session talking about buiding better, diverse org culture - ka pai all

Wishing Claire Hanna and team, all the best today there today - hoping for better, brighter things in days ahead for that brill part of the world :)

Met Martin after their brill gig in 2018 Welly - hero of mine, lovely guy - i'm a Chills fan since my teens in Ireland, (introduced to me by The City Remains) - so sad to hear news - RIP Martin and condolences to his family, friends n all T H E C H I L L S whānau - rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Brill news - IMHO: for the many and the few ‘Claire Hanna for SDLP leader’ is the _definition_ of a ‘no-brainer’ – she has the talent, tenacity, the passion, personality and probity to push things forward - for the party and society there – all best to Claire agus an fhoireann!😊

Been gorging on this all weekend - youtu.be/sx9SVAtMkJM?fe… - sublime hearing them back in this form...can't wait for album

Great topics, speakers and a _lot_ of inspiration @ **Aotearoa Government Innovation Showcase** in Welly today…good focus on getting, setting the foundations right in building better, quicker, the Digital Public Infrastructure model resonates; a lot to be positive about👌…

Ka pai - Arrived here just in time for my weekend read :)

I have no idea of what being number 1 means these days in terms of scale of 'sale' etc.; but this is lovely nme.com/news/music/the… - and been listening through the week - love the album and hopefully shall see it live at some stage soon :)

Heartening to see the GCDO announce a Service Modernisation Roadmap too, committing to improving CX of government, - a truly cross-agency community of contribution in building tangible, useful ‘assets’, capabilities for our present and future selves.digital.govt.nz/digital-govern…

I went down to pay respect to Sergeant Lyn Fleming today; a very moving experience and heartening to see the community turn out in such numbers on a suitably damp and dark evening, also to hear folk speak of a wonderful person and professional...Kia kaha - lnkd.in/gJT956Er

Sat down Sunday evening here readying for tee off at Dubai classic - shall be willing on Dan Hillier - been an incredible tournament for the kiwi golfer so far - I'm sure the Royal Wellington clubhouse is buzzing :)

Our Miss Rima (5) was a little peeved, out of sorts when I dropped her off for school earlier because I was WFH..."that's unusual" I thought. With her teacher, she has expressed why in a lovely drawing :)- I must say though, an absolutely scandalous assumption...and half-truth 😀

🖤 this; great to learn about accessibility and why important to design our services better, cognisant of diverse needs - lnkd.in/ge64-75P - play around with the tasks; also, (i assume) how gd to have _design systems_ to be able to put these types of prototypes together