A social enterprise working with communities, health and care partners to create innovative change of local benefit and national significance.
Find out more www.carecity.org
Parent Zone sits at the heart of digital family life, shaping the best possible future for children.
For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Working to ensure that human rights underpin the development, use and governance of digital technologies
The UK's tech trade association championing tech's role in preparing and empowering the UK for what comes next.
https://www.techuk.org/
Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
We defend human rights around the world.
Let's get to work!
We defend and extend the digital rights of people and communities at risk 🌎.
The Internet Society Foundation exists to support the positive difference the Internet can make to people everywhere.
Research centre led from University College London focused on tackling and reducing health inequalities. Supported by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and a wide range of health equity focused advocacy groups.
ESRC Research Centre addressing pressures and inequities in how people experience social care.
Visit our website and sign up to our newsletter: https://centreforcare.ac.uk/
The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.
Launched in 2020, the ESRC Centre at King's College London aims to transform understanding of how social, economic and cultural changes affect mental health.
Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
CEO at YoungMinds. Society, technology, design, change. Hoping this is a more hopeful place.
Welcome to Government Digital Service - see blog posts
[bridged from https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/gds.blog.gov.uk ]
We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
UKRI's Building a Secure and Resilient World: Research and co-ordination hub. We are a collaboration of the universities of Manchester, Bath, Exeter, and Sussex. Our work focuses on national security and resilience through a human-centred systems approach.
We're the national agency for youth work representing more than 100 youth organisation members across Scotland.
Lecturer in Librarianship and Information Management @ University of Sheffield
Researching digital inclusion, digital poverty, rural digital connectivity, social inclusion, community space (inc libraries), intermediaries & access to reading
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
CLES is the national organisation for local economies. We're working towards a future where local economies benefit people, place and the planet.
🔗 cles.org.uk
Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
🤖 Digital anthropologist. Interested in politics & platforms in the UK. PhD on social media in Sri Lanka. Work @ Uni of Munich. Based in London. craigeryder.com
Head of the Center for Political Communication Research at Zeppelin University and netPOL. Does research on the disruptive transformation of democracy and the public sphere through digitalization, entertainment, and the anthropocene.
The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) is the largest 🇪🇺 network of anti-poverty NGOs & European Organisations fighting poverty & social exclusion.
linktr.ee/eapneurope
🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Open For All & NPC - civil society in the digital commons; Intersticia UK; Ashoka Special Relationship Fellow
📍Researcher at Media@LSE | Manager of the Digital Futures for Children centre
🎯Focus: digital technologies, GenAI, platformisation; mental health & wellbeing; children, families, intimacy; multi-method + cross-national analyses; rights & advocacy
News, views, guidance and tools for teachers, school leaders and other educators navigating AI and digital learning: substack.com/@connectedlearning from Michelle Pauli @michellepauli.bsky.social and Sarah Horrocks
Participatory grant-making body in the UK working to end the imbalances of wealth and power. Run for and by grassroots organisers! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/edge-funds-root-funding-round
Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/
Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social
ClearCommunityWeb help people, of all abilities, develop their digital skills, awareness and confidence in order to learn new things, live more independently.
Research-driven insights on online behaviours, tech innovation, youth media engagement and digital safety.
Online risks, product and tech for good
Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
💁♀️ She/her | Feminist 🏳️🌈 | 📚 PhD on data literacy & digital inclusion at VUB | 🔍 Curious about tech, power & participation
Bsky archive of Official Horizon EU profile for the EU's Research & Innovation Programme.
europa.eu/!Xf47NRP
check out also @creativeeurope.bsky.social and @euerasmusplus.bsky.social
atm powered by @gogash.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Interdisciplinary Research Centre - Supporting AI, Machine Learning and Data Science across the University of Cambridge.
National resource & catalyst for change in Scotland's Digital Health and Social Care Sector. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Government. Organiser of @digiinventors.com
https://linktr.ee/dhiscotland
Delivering Scotland’s AI Strategy with the vision for Scotland to become a world leader in the development and use of TRUSTWORTHY, ETHICAL and INCLUSIVE AI.
Information Scientist based in Berlin, Vice Chair at http://grenzenlos-digital.org and Co-Founder of https://www.you-we-digital.com researching #digitalskills #digitaleinklusion #digitaldivide she/her
We live in a sociodigital world – a world where society and digital technology are increasingly bound together. Founded in 2022, we bring together leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making. www.bristol.ac.uk/censof
Aussie speech pathologist, passionate about creating better futures for people affected by aphasia
Based at City St George’s, University of London
'Frankly disturbing' performance artist, writer, producer, irritant, arts admin and research fairy, jack of all trades, master of some. http://linktr.ee/alistairgentry
https://alistairgentry.net
Academic at King's College London. HCI, mostly in accessibility. Occasional musician. Capybara fanatic. tdjneate.github.io
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
We need digital learning hubs in every community to facilitate digital literacy attainment. Digital hubs that foster basic skills, that nurture cultural awareness, that develop critical thinking, that enable everyone to fully engage with the digital realm
i criticize the tech industry
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
Digital Xtra is the leading Scottish charity working to give every young person in Scotland access to innovative and digitally creative activities regardless of their gender, background, or where they live.
CPAG in Scotland works to end child poverty in Scotland.
www.cpag.org.uk
Ending the #PovertyPremium: the extra costs people on low incomes pay for essential products & services.
Director, Libraries at Arts Council England. Data, emerging tech, literacies, reading for pleasure and the joy of libraries. ‘Libraries gave us power.’ Personal views only.
We’re connecting the (digital) dots and bringing people together to make Manchester a better place to live. #DoingDigitalTogether
https://linktr.ee/manchesterdigitalstrategy
CIM - interdisciplinary research centre at Uni. of Warwick - innovative & experimental knowledge production, methodology focus, expanding roles of interdisciplinary methods, new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries.
https://warwick.ac.uk/cim
Inclusivity through content design, digital inclusion and... y'know, life.
Current GOV.UK, ex Good Things Foundation.
she/her
Official account for Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator.
ofcom.org.uk
People United is a socially engaged arts organisation based in East Kent , we make art, connect people and work for change.
Podcast & social media chat focused on disability, accessibility, innovation & social good.
https://www.axschat.com/
Building bridges & creating inclusive communities online for the last decade.
Banner: Bridge with hands supporting - Aleks Barsukov
Accentuate, a pioneering programme by Screen South, creates and delivers projects that break new ground for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the cultural sector.
https://curatingforchange.org/
We are the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve #LocalGov
Visit our website: https://www.local.gov.uk/
Doing digital inclusion in Scotland 🧑🏻💻
Bringing together people in research, practice, and policy with a focus on digital contexts. We are the go-to point of contact to engage with the broadest UK network of interdisciplinary, cross-sector digital Trust, Identity, Privacy, Security experts.
Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab
Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance,
data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏
www.thewhynotlab.com
Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability open til Feb 26.
she/they
ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• blog: https://berjon.com/
• fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
We're SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations). The national body supporting Scotland's essential voluntary sector. We monitor socials Mon-Thu 9-5 Fri 9-4.
🔗 www.scvo.scot
UK based geeky, gamer, vegan foodie, who loves a bit of science and evidence based policy 👌
📚professor @MyBCU, @LHC4MD, SFHEA
👩👧mum of my girl
📃 poet by personal need
🌍 citizen of a lovely and complex world
University of Leeds - Research and Innovation
Always searching for good coffee.
Prof. @ UoL. Farmer. Feminist
Law & Social Justice (L&SJ) is a research centre based at the University of Leeds School Law, engaging with questions about inequalities in welfare and social justice. https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/research-centre-law-social-justice
Global research platform building partnerships, enhancing interdisciplinary skills & elevating interdisciplinary research to address pressing global challenges.
Society needs to change - let's change it together.
Visit: https://societal.leeds.ac.uk/
Everyday ethics with the experts, from IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds (@idea-leeds.bsky.social).
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-research-degrees/doc/ethics-untangled
Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI): initiating and incubating cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research across and beyond the arts and humanities @universityofleeds.bsky.social Website: https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/
At the intersection of organizing, community based research, socially engaged arts & digital security for South Asian religious & cultural minorities💙💛
Learn more: linktr.ee/equalitylabs
Head of Digital, Office for Equality and Opportunity, Cabinet Office. Trustee @bodyandsoulcharity.bsky.social
Cambridge-based husband, father, free software & green energy geek, digital rights & equity advocate, open source technologist, CEO of Endless Access, Vice President of GNOME
Sociologist | participatory and creative methods, digital technologies, and science communication
@INESC-ID
Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford @DSPI
Co-design and Mental Health (COM) Team Lead
Youth participation, digital innovation, community wellbeing, equity and social justice.
A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
