Cate McLaurin

Was so so good 😊 Thankyou @rufflemuffin.bsky.social

Thankyou!

Council culture: Why digital needs to be at the core Every day, local councils face growing pressure to deliver more with less. But the councils that thrive aren't necessarily those with the biggest budgets, they're...

Our Head of Local Government, @madebycatem.bsky.social Cate McLaurin’s latest piece is in The MJ.

In “Council culture: Why digital needs to be at the core", Cate argues that digital is everyone’s responsibility, not just the tech team's.

👉 www.themj.co.uk/council-culture-digital-core

Quote from Cate McLaurin, Head of Local Government at Public Digital saying "Cyber attacks are inevitable but you can do a lot to prepare for how you will respond if the worst happens. Includes logo for the Provider Podcast.

Are you prepared for a #cyberattack?

🎙️Tune in to hear @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social‬ interview @madebycatem.bsky.social about:

🟢 Her experience leading the response to a high-profile attack
🟢 How to build your #cyberresilience.

⏯️ bit.ly/446G4RZ

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Finally made it to an Interesting in London. So so good. Replenished my people are bloody brilliant bucket. Which tbh has been empty for a while.
#interesting2025
Here for agitating around another Sheffield/Northern edition.

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Also LOTI (London office of technology and innovation) has done loads I think

We've opened a ticket ballot for GovCamp Scotland 2025 www.govcamp.scot/tickets.

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Ik schreef een stukje over mijn worsteling met het woord "innoveren" anneschuth.nl/2025/03/28/n...

Possibly the world’s most boring video. But also immensely exciting. @jamestplunkett.bsky.social finally!

There’s still time to join us on 13th February for our AI 101 Impact Training.

This session is aimed at people who have already started with or are interested in improving their AI literacy.

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New week, new experiments, new notes anneschuth.nl/2025/01/25/m...
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Sunday night kimchi prep.

A massive thank you to all the organisers, campmakers and volunteers who make UKGovCamp the best unconference event. #ukgc25 was a joyous and hopeful thing

That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗

Fabulous day @ukgovcamp.bsky.social Thankyou to all the organisers - you made it a brilliant day. ❤️

So - Episode 6(ish) in this saga - I now have a heat geek appointment for a survey for early March. Persisting. . .

I’m staying in a house in Montpellier where it appears the owner *may* have left their cat in a separate part of the house behind a locked door. We have, of course, named it Schrödinger.

The books (and the adaptation) are excellent, too recommend

Dropping back here with an update (painfully slow progress), but have managed to persuade Heat Geek that we do in fact have a garden. One small step forward. Nothing from Aira though. . .

Ooh love 3 uncles so much!

How might we build the capacity and resilience of institutions and civil society to respond to cyber attacks and so change the incentives around ransomware?

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

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...

On the matter of the British Library cyber incident The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital national institutions.

My best attempt at making sense of what has been happening at the British Library and more importantly how to learn from it

ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-mat...

Woke up to lovely snowy Dutch scenes this morning. Also had to unfreeze the bike lock with boiling water.

💯 that is a great sticker

‘This yawning gap in knowledge and curiosity around technology remains true across senior levels of government, the civil service, parliament, and the judiciary’ . . .

Explanations behind the Horizon scandal cannot be reduced to a rogue supplier or an IT failure, but a set of organisational and systemic failures at the heart of government, writes our founding partner Mike Bracken.

public.digital/2024/01/12/a...

Bear in the window of Kushii.nl cafe

Said hello to my fave Utrecht cafe today kushii.nl and thought of you @marxculture.bsky.social

I’ve tried to solve it by buying several pairs of the same socks. Not black, quite fancy but all the same. And yet, others appear and don’t match.