Beautiful live sketch notes from Jenny Leonard 🎨
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Beautiful live sketch notes from Jenny Leonard 🎨
Look up the IT Reuse for Good Charter to learn more about how to adopt this approach www.gov.uk/government/p...
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Christine Liang, DSIT: “1.6m people in the UK are offline…Blockers can include cost of device/connectivity.” Programmes to refurb old gov devices and pass them on to digitally excluded people address both waste and exclusion at the same time.
Astrid Wynne: “The first rule of sustainability is: don’t“. Efficiency metrics are helpful, but prevention of unnecessary products/services is more powerful.
Carbon is just one metric we need to consider in environmental impact. Including the cost of mining precious metals and processing physical materials requires a full life cycle assessment, which is much harder for organisations to do.
Emma Charles worked out that a recent procurement process had an equivalent carbon cost of 4 tonnes! An average of 300 hours contributed by 30 suppliers competing for a relatively small government contract 🤯
Claire Robinson is passionate about net positive (net zero doesn’t go far enough!)
Mary Creagh: “ICT is already responsible for 4% of global emissions… how we design, build and buy digital technology matters!”
Apparently we’re sitting right on top of the British Tunnelling Society 🤔 How apt.
Venue for the GDSA Summit is 👌 Institution of Civil Engineers is very fancy.
AI agents will join up government before government joins up government. This may be a mixed blessing.
Blog post. with some reflections about my recent agentic adventures:
loosemore.com/2026/02/25/a...
Chris talking about his work with the Green Web Foundation 🌱@mrchrisadams.bsky.social
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Are people sicker now than in 2019?
Civil servants in England are.
Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*.
Are things getting worse?
It certainly looks like it.
This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
Hello, Brian. 21:12 S02E01 Back February 23 2001
computer: say "im not a robot" person: captcha, im not a robot computer: oh my god
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
Good post from Ayesha about the clash between product and programme thinking ayeshamoarif.substack.com/p/making-pro...
“AI isn’t taking your job, the people making the decisions are”
“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”
“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”
“Be hopeful AND cynical”
Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov
Photo of Rachael speaking. The slide behind her says "the chaos is not normal." With an illustration of a pink elephant.
Brilliant keynote from @rdietkus.bsky.social at #sdingov about public services as care.
She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.
“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
And a great shoutout for betterimagesofai.org - a useful resource for more interesting, less misleading visuals #sdingov
Love the focus on choice: we can choose how/if we use AI! Dystopia is not inevitable! @elmosmoe.bsky.social #sdingov
So many great points being made by Steph Wright on AI in today’s keynote. #sdingov Copilot Agents are here, slowly creeping into our workflows. Local Gov needs more support in how to:
- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control
A woman with long dark hair and light skin standing behind a lectern and in front of a large canvas with a projected slide above her, saying: “what’s next? Collecting feedback and ideas, governance model, onboarding more departments, new content: professions, engineering portal” next to a picture of a laptop showing a digital library with the headline “find and reuse digital service elements”
“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”
@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
The 10 year health plan mentions the NHS App 55 times! How can the NHS App team live up the weight of expectation, manage their roadmap, and avoid becoming a bottleneck?@jiggott.bsky.social #sdingov
Reminding us of the scale of the civil service, and the value of looking outside of silos @nikolagoger.bsky.social #sdingov
Great to see progress being made on tackling vaccine hesitancy, such an important issue! @carolinefinucane.bsky.social #sdingov
