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I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).

I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.

Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.

Thx :)

We're delighted to welcome Olivia Elson to Public Digital as a Director in the Global Impact team.

public.digital/about-pd/our...

Follow @adhdpathfinding.org.uk to hear about this new volunteer group helping people with “undiagnosed” #ADHD in the UK

Background:
- millions of us
- mostly unsupported/no access to helpful meds
- waiting lists years long
- access to lists denied for older people

Or an Erdinger for that matter!

I'm hosting an unconference for community professionals in Lagos, Nigeria on July 12, 2025.

If you enjoy having an open and honest conversation around the messy and grey areas of building a community regardless of the industry, you should plan to attend!

Link in thread 👇

It's looking likely I'll be back helping to deliver services in the #NHS again soon. It's been 3 years since my last stint with the awesome #111online team and I'm trying to get the lay of the land, what's changed, what hasn't? Let me know in the comments or drop me a DM if you're up for a chat 👍

How do we repair the mess Trump & the tech titan have made? Public servants who know how to build things can tell us.

Here’s @merici.bsky.social, who built IRS Direct File AND helped launched the beloved CFPB on @cnn.com with @philmattingly.bsky.social

transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date...

A piece of career advice I give people I mentor is to go where you are valued. It means it’s important to be in a role where you are respected, recognized and rewarded.

Sometimes despite tenure, it’s better to leave and accelerate your career trajectory versus staying where you’ve been written off.

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

More of this please.

Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

Building Successful Communities of Practice in organisations Take this self-paced course to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Learn about the benefits for members and organisations, how to build them and ...

I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know 👍

(inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❤️)

Bookmarking this

AI is doing the coursework.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.

Data Bites #55 Data Bites #55

Join us in Westminster on 7 May for Data Bites #55.

Speakers include:

🔹 Alex Blandford (Public Digital & Oxford)
🔹 Laura Gilbert (Ellison Institute)
🔹 Ed Humpherson on data, trust & regulation
🔹 MHCLG on Local Digital & AI

📍Broadway House, London SW1H

Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch. Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse

Exciting news! I'm launching my brand new online self-paced course very soon.

With videos, reading, and hands-on activities, learn how to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations.

Sign up now to receive a discount at launch tacit.pub/onlinecourse

If you're an #HTML nerd, I would love your help.

I've released a new Pretty-Printer for PHP 8.4's Dom\HTMLDocument class.

Could you please go to shkspr.mobi/blog/random and hit view source in your browser. Does everything look OK? Anything weird? It should all be formatted nicely.

THANKS!

Internet of Public Service Jobs - Test/Learn/Grow This is a special edition supporting the Cabinet Office's Test, Learn and Grow team with their recruitment campaign. I have nothing to do with the team in any capacity and nobody asked me to do it but...

A special edition of my newsletter focused on the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team vacancies (and principles).

@karakane-kk.bsky.social

newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...

If you have some training budget you would like to use up before the end of the financial year, I have some availability for coaching sessions. Make an inquiry here, let me know your timescales and anything else important and I will be in touch.
21cmindset.com/inquiry/

Don’t outsource control. Agencies often outsource projects so thoroughly that they give up their ability to control the projects’ outcomes. What does it look like to retain control?

Blog entry: "It’s important that we reconsider how much to government software development outsource. I don’t mean what percentage of development, I mean the extent of each project that is handed off to a vendor. What might it look like to reduce the outsourced extent, if that would reduce risk?"

The Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team are hiring 11 roles across product, delivery management, data analysis and design. Come work with us on public sector reform! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

API users survey March 2025 Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

Do you use an API?

Do you run an API?

Then I'd love to hear from you!

I'm supporting the ONS with some work looking at the current API landscape and best practice (esp government, and esp stats)

We have a short survey - v grateful for thoughts, and please share! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FISUES/

This is a very good piece of writing.

3 Examples: Inclusive Digital Transformation Government Services - ICTworks digital transformation efforts address inclusive, user-centred digital government services that meet citizens where they are in 3 countries

Governments must design digital services that work for everyone, not just the digitally connected. 🌍

Public Digital’s Head of Africa, @abisola.bsky.social explored the importance of inclusive digital transformation on our blog. This week, ICT Works featured it on their site.

Read it here: 🔗

#18F site wiped from internet. Some parts have been saved & reposted.

Dug Falby has the Methods pages goodlookslikethis.com/guides.18f.g... #GovDesign #ServiceDesign

When we pick up the pieces in the future of a broken humanity, will we look back on social media timeline algorithms as a major contributor to our collective demise?

Reminds me of when we were extending our house. Took 4 days for them to demolish the kitchen and downstairs lounge, but 3.5 months to rebuild. Destroying things is easy.

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Last week GOV.UK Pay completed £38.80m in payments safely, securely and accessibly. 💸

We are recruiting permanent roles until 24th February 2025.

Apply now www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....

A really interesting take. Thanks for sharing Dan.

My love to everyone!!

Direct File is live and you can now choose to import your tax information directly from the IRS. 💥

Direct File is a free, secure, accurate product from the IRS - and it is available in 25 states.

Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.