Lisa Allen

Nonprofit data jobs 2025-05-18 Featuring jobs with Birdlife International, AgeUK, Impetus, Wellcome Trust and Natural Resources Wales

Just in case, for some reason, you are not already signed up to the snappily titled Nonprofit data jobs newsletter... you can view this week's here buttondown.com/likeaword/ar... (and sign up to have it emailed to you in the future)

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

Big news this evening

This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 2pm we will hold the eight meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

🗣️ Our next Community of Practice speakers are announced! Julian from @opendatamcr.bsky.social on developing principles for putting residents at the heart of how automated decision making is used; and Louise from GDS.

💻 Zoom
🗓️ Wed 14, 2-3pm GMT
🎟️ Free, register: connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Looking for a summer internship?
@openuk has a *paid* internship from May-August, for a UK-based intern interested in digital and policy.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrocktech_looking-for-a-summer-internship-openuk-activity-7326630298652192768-UWm-

Please share 😃

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Fantastic to attend Women in Data #WID Still amazes me that #data is not routinely split by gender resulting in harms for everyone.

Big job leading the UK Government's "mission to better use its data as part of the National Data Strategy":

Deputy Director, Data Strategy at the Government Digital Service www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

(If you think GDS is the right place to do that.)

#datastrategy #govtech

Amazing to publish our TPR data strategy today #data #Savers #Pensions

www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...

Attended an excellent event tonight hosted by startupcoalition.io on Making Open Finance happen. #data #open

You read my mind. I was just going to ask for the links to the economic research! ☺️

Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Very useful summary of how the fully open source Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 is beating OpenAI at its own game venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...

AI Opportunities Action Plan: government response Government response to recommendations set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan and the steps it will take to implement them.

The UK AI Opportunity Plan and Gov's response is now live...

There's lots to comb through, but a few first thoughts below 🧵(1/8).

www.gov.uk/government/p... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

#OpenSource Nerds Assemble!

The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*.

sessionize.com/state-of-ope...

State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM.

We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open technology.

📣Job klaxon📣 Another brilliant job in my team. This one is to lead our Data Quality & Requirements team.

Come join us!
Check out this job at The Pensions Regulator: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

#data #jobs

Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament Current version of Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] with latest news, sponsors, and progress through Houses

Happy Data (Use and Access) Bill Day to all who celebrate!

It’s Second Reading in the Lords today – the first chance for peers to debate the detail of the Bill

Bill docs from:
- Parliament bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825
- Government www.gov.uk/government/c...

Excellent thanks Ben for sharing

The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners over the data used to train their generative AI systems. A lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in December was the first from a media outlet. Unlike similar lawsuits, Raw Story and AlterNet's complaint accused OpenAI of unlawfully removing their articles' copyright management information (CMI) without arguing that it infringed their copyrights. McMahon agreed with OpenAI that the claims should be dismissed. "Let us be clear about what is really at stake here," McMahon said. "The alleged injury for which Plaintiffs truly seek redress is not the exclusion of CMI" but the "use of Plaintiffs' articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation."

OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... (US)

Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. – Order on Motion to Dismiss www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290...

#genAI #IPlaw #AIlaw #techlaw

Connected Conversation: Generative AI and Worker Rights Across industries, companies are seeking to exploit content generated by their workers past and present to create customised generative AI. The same pattern is appearing across journalism, education, ...

#GenerativeAI is impacting on workers now, and increasingly.

Our recent Connected Conversations with provocations from @jenitennison.com, Janis Wong, Aparna Surendra and Adio Dinika, discussed #WorkerRights in relation to #data and #AI.

connectedbydata.org/events/2024-...

Ditto. Hoping we can create the community over here to talk about data and tech 🤞

At The Pensions Regulator, we’ve published our DDaT Strategy. Take a look 👀 #DDAT #data #digital #tech #opendata
www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/media-hub...

Fascinating discussion on #PoliticsLive today about the role of #Data and #Analytics in shaping the NHS. Great to hear conversations on data and analytics becoming mainstream

Launch: State of the Sector Data Maturity Report 2024 — Data Orchard Join us for first sight of this year's State of the Sector report and be first to understand how data maturity across sectors is changing.

Looking forward to this event with Data Orchard and seeing what has changed. #data #maturity www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/launc...

Kicking off at the IRM Data, AI and Analytics conferences. We’re celebrating 21 years of DAMA UK today too 😊#DAIA24 #data #damauk

Ooh I’ll take a listen!

View from the bottom of an electricity pylon looking up to the apex and showing the symmetrical structure of beams and cross braces

📣Calling all energy and data people📣
⚡Open Data Manchester is running an Electricity Data Dive with Electricity North West and Kraken on 5th November. If you're interested in the data behind our electricity generation, supply and usage, this is for you 👉 bit.ly/ODM-SPARK

Trying to pull all/most of the responses to this together, I've put together some of my own reflections on the big questions around the "digital centre" here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/10...

The framework is an extension of our existing Accountability Framework, and it has nine toolkits covering the following key areas: ● Accountability ● Records management ● Information & cyber security ● Training and awareness ● Data sharing ● Requests for data ● Personal data breach management ● Artificial intelligence ● Age-appropriate design

New #dataprotection audit framework launched to help organisations improve compliance ico.org.uk/about-the-ic... from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Related: Accountability Framework ico.org.uk/for-organisa...

Hey great to see you here!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #910,933, Lisa Allen ‪@lisaallen.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 8, 2023"

Love this stat! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #910,933! #data #stats

Kicking off the #ThinkData event with Jonathan Roberts, Chief Data Officer at the Ministry of Justice. It's fascinating to see how the data challenges we face are remarkably similar across industries.