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Land Talks #4: Land-For-Flats, A New Forest City, Undead Property Taxes & More! · Luma 🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

Speaking at Land Talks next week - come along! luma.com/ba8uvclo

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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.

Making Product Work in Public Services If you want to adopt the product playbook, you need to change how the game is played

Good post from Ayesha about the clash between product and programme thinking ayeshamoarif.substack.com/p/making-pro...

a bald man is smiling with the words welcome aboard behind him ALT: a bald man is smiling with the words welcome aboard behind him

Welcome! 🤗 @franco-grech.bsky.social

“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”

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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

Prototyping digital credentials for care leavers @harrytrimble.bsky.social #sdingov

Definition of hypernormalisation

A pink elephant in the room

Adam Curtis would be proud 🥲 @rdietkus.bsky.social #sdingov

A woman with light skin and grey hair standing at a lectern in front of an audience with a projected slide above her saying: “slowing down and taking the time that’s necessary can become the acts of resistance” next to a photograph of a pile of small colourful stickers on top of a note pad

Great to see this here:

“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov

3 people on a conference stage sitting in front of an audience, 1 woman with grey hair standing at a lectern speaking, a projected slide on top of them says “defining public design — “Public design is an iterative process of generating, legitimising, and achieving policy intent whilst de-risking operational delivery. It involves a range of practical, creative and collaborative approaches grounded in citizens' day-to-day experiences of - and relations to - people, objects, organisations, communities and places.”; next to it, a version of a policy cycle

“This is a clarification. It’s not new.”— Lucy Kimbell

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#PublicDesign is an iterative process of generating, legitimising, and achieving policy intent whilst de-risking operational delivery.
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#SDinGov

David’s asking us to look into the future of public design: what do you see? 👀 @the80skid.bsky.social #sdingov

"The machine (of government) is breaking before our eyes and if we're not careful it's going to be dismantled," says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social kicking off #SDinGov.

We'll be looking at how to bring a more curious, humble, and systemic mindset to the work of govt tomorrow afternoon.

Lovely tribute to Vicky - I often still share her blog posts @maredwards.bsky.social #sdingov

GOV.UK Services List

Shout out to everyone at #SDinGov!

I’m not there, but I’ll be following with interest.

A quick reminder that I help maintain a list of all UK gov digital services, including links to service assessments and code: govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

If your service is missing, let me know!

Slide featuring front pages of books by Hobbs and Newton

Nice to see Newton and Hobbs getting shoutouts 🤗@jamestplunkett.bsky.social #sdingov

University campus building with Arthur’s Seat in the background

Excited to be back at #SDinGov !Team Transform is me, David, Franco and Jen this year 🎉 Come say hi if you’re here too 🤗

"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind

grandpa reading a story: let's see, where were we? Oh yes, in the pit of despair.

'The Princess Bride' (1987)
dir: Rob Reiner 📽️

I am thrilled to share my upcoming book which is now available for pre-order!

Thank you to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and my amazing agent @juliasreading.bsky.social

Thank you @lizoriordan.bsky.social for the foreword and @iandunt.bsky.social for the endorsement!

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