Francis Bacon
@andeggs.bsky.social
Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.
Feels like this should inspire reflection in UK - how would our legal, technical and social controls withstand similar attempts to abuse our core data/digital infrastructure?
New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
February 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Feels like this should inspire reflection in UK - how would our legal, technical and social controls withstand similar attempts to abuse our core data/digital infrastructure?
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This is brilliant piece, required reading
Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.
This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is brilliant piece, required reading
“We may be living in a world where multiple orders coexist or compete and where little is left of near-universal rules, principles, and patterns of cooperation. In such a ‘multi-order’... world, the liberal order's... reach will increasingly be restricted to the west, or what is left of it.”
February 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“We may be living in a world where multiple orders coexist or compete and where little is left of near-universal rules, principles, and patterns of cooperation. In such a ‘multi-order’... world, the liberal order's... reach will increasingly be restricted to the west, or what is left of it.”
"a decade...from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and...watch it on a future version of Vision Pro" crazystupidtech.com/archive/will...
Will A.I. Eat The Browser?
By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be...
crazystupidtech.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"a decade...from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and...watch it on a future version of Vision Pro" crazystupidtech.com/archive/will...
Towards personalised AI as a way for big tech to avoid contentious politics stratechery.com/2024/aggrega...
Aggregator’s AI Risk
A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI
stratechery.com
March 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Towards personalised AI as a way for big tech to avoid contentious politics stratechery.com/2024/aggrega...
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Doing user research is about looking for clues. And while user research can’t provide certainty, it will inform the bets you place in your organisational strategy.
Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...
Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...
February 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Doing user research is about looking for clues. And while user research can’t provide certainty, it will inform the bets you place in your organisational strategy.
Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...
Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...
New ruling further exposes organisations claiming copyright on public domain images
How does a recent landmark ruling change museums’ understanding of copyright? - Museums Association
Naomi Korn and Sean Waterman explain what a ruling on out-of-copyright items means for the sector
www.museumsassociation.org
February 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
New ruling further exposes organisations claiming copyright on public domain images
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No more Big IT.
"We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here:
www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
"We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here:
www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
No more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many lives
Governments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters
www.ft.com
January 20, 2024 at 9:49 AM
No more Big IT.
"We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here:
www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
"We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here:
www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
My cousin's email address recently hacked and I just received a very convincing spear phishing attack from the address. I'm wondering if they're using LLMs to hone the sender's writing style 😱
December 24, 2023 at 5:19 PM
My cousin's email address recently hacked and I just received a very convincing spear phishing attack from the address. I'm wondering if they're using LLMs to hone the sender's writing style 😱
Geoff Mulgan provides useful framework for decision-making in complex environments: patterns, proven, promising, possible. (personally the idea of a physical room doesn't add anything for me) apolitical.co/solution-art...
Creating useful policy steering rooms
The experience of working in a 4P room should build skilled public service teams able to work with imperfect evidence, surface edge innovations and make compelling arguments to help decision-making.
apolitical.co
December 20, 2023 at 10:20 PM
Geoff Mulgan provides useful framework for decision-making in complex environments: patterns, proven, promising, possible. (personally the idea of a physical room doesn't add anything for me) apolitical.co/solution-art...
My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...
Reflections from UK Charity Camp 2023 — Public Digital
public.digital
December 15, 2023 at 3:04 PM
My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...
On my way for the first ever UKCharityCamp, sketching up a session on the train. Thank you for organising @dxw.bsky.social, this event has been missing for too long
November 30, 2023 at 8:58 AM
On my way for the first ever UKCharityCamp, sketching up a session on the train. Thank you for organising @dxw.bsky.social, this event has been missing for too long
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NEW: our verdict on the Maude Review into government accountability & the civil service
After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed?
Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...
After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed?
Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...
Rishi Sunak has lost the man who would implement Lord Maude’s government reforms | Institute for G...
New Cabinet Office minister John Glen should build on his predecessor Jeremy Quin’s approach to government reform.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 14, 2023 at 1:41 PM
NEW: our verdict on the Maude Review into government accountability & the civil service
After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed?
Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...
After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed?
Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...
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To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns.
Do it with your team, and do it iteratively.
And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape.
www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...
Do it with your team, and do it iteratively.
And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape.
www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...
Rapid and collaborative synthesis — Katherine Wastell
www.katherinewastell.com
October 18, 2023 at 3:08 PM
To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns.
Do it with your team, and do it iteratively.
And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape.
www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...
Do it with your team, and do it iteratively.
And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape.
www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...
Reposted by Francis Bacon
Delighted to announce that we're back and bigger than ever!
Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024.
We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can.
www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u...
#ukgcXL
Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024.
We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can.
www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u...
#ukgcXL
October 13, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Delighted to announce that we're back and bigger than ever!
Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024.
We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can.
www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u...
#ukgcXL
Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024.
We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can.
www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u...
#ukgcXL
Interesting article - marketing attribution (huge industry) could shift from deterministic to probabilistic models. mobiledevmemo.com/flying-blind/
October 14, 2023 at 9:54 AM
Interesting article - marketing attribution (huge industry) could shift from deterministic to probabilistic models. mobiledevmemo.com/flying-blind/
AI, big data and robotics create a further centralising force in government (from local->central gov). Academic paper from Dunleavy and Margetts: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120352/
October 8, 2023 at 1:20 PM
AI, big data and robotics create a further centralising force in government (from local->central gov). Academic paper from Dunleavy and Margetts: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120352/