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“Defence against the Dark Arts” how do you deal with people bringing you the solution? @publicdigital.bsky.social facilitating an open discussion at #ukgc26

Folks at #ukgc26 talking about #TotalPlace might find this useful from CLES: the national organisation for local economics #CommunityWealthBuilding

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Seeing links made in real time at #ukgc26 is always fun - folks from OpenDigital Planning team in MHCLG and GDS Local picking up opportunities to collaborate 🫶🏽

It would be great to see you 😁 will head Dorset way later in the year 🫶🏽

Excellent… a pitch from GDS Local at #ukgc26 I’ll be there 🤩

Agree with @jacattell.bsky.social if it’s general we will all descend into general doom-mongering 😬 go for something crunchy and concrete that we can dive into

Will do 🫡

Selfie of Gavin Beckett at UKGovCamp with a crowd of attendees behind him in a grand civic chamber

Great to be back at #ukgc26 with @publicdigital.bsky.social - come and talk to us during the day! I’m here with Gurpreet, Oli and Linda (and hopefully Jess if the train eventually arrives!)

A slide reading #ukgc26 in partnership with Birmingham City Council

Great to be hosted by a council for #ukgc26 - public services all come together around people in places 🫶🏽

...and we're off 🙂 #ukgc26

A promotional banner for our PD Sessions panel event featuring the host and panelists. It lists the following individuals and their organisations: Host: Rob Miller, Senior Director, Public Digital Hamida Ali, Head of Learning and Practice, Future Governance Forum Lorna Rogers, Interim Director of Digital & Transformation, Liverpool City Region Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology & Innovation Vincent Van Beek, Omnichannel Project Manager, Mijnservices, Netherlands

This Thursday we're hosting a PD Sessions event on Finding Opportunities for Radical Transformation in Local Public Services.

Book your place to attend in person or online ⬇️

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Public Digital #101 | Public Digital On Thursday we’re hosting a session on finding opportunities for radical transformation in local public services.   As well as our monthly round-up of internet era ways of working and technology news,...

As well as our monthly round-up of internet era ways of working and technology news, Public Digital newsletter #101 explores examples of change and innovation in local government.

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Looking forward to @govcampcymru.bsky.social tomorrow in Cardiff 🤩 who else is going?

Heading to Cardiff this afternoon, looking forward to tomorrow 🥰

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UK local government is at a pivotal moment.

As PD Director Gavin Beckett writes, it’s time to start building dynamic service organisations to respond to the challenges of today.

Our event on 27 November will explore how we can build a movement across the sector.

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Oh wow! We went back to spend a weekend with a college friend two years ago, and made a special effort to visit and have a Gardenia burger for the first time in 30 years… seeing this news, very glad we did 🫶🏽

The UK Gov Camp logo, which look like a fireball heading right. The top half is blue and rest is red. In the middle is a white line that looks like the river Thames.

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.

We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.

@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.

Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

Ha ha… we could do that too

Paging @ox1digital.co.uk

👀 did I hear Weymouth mentioned??? I’m in…

Ahh it looked so amazing via the interwebs, so pleased it went well for you (of course everyone else loved it!) 🥰 Wish I could have seen it IRL instead of snippets via social media 😁 See you in Bristol for a catch up soon I hope!

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Absolutely loved your talk and clips from the film 🫶🏽 today

Looking forward to my first @localgov.digital event of the year… at AWS HQ to listen and talk about how AI is being used in local public services. And to share some thoughts from a @publicdigital.bsky.social perspective about the value of test and learn to help us avoid false certainty around AI

A massive thank you to Emily @civicdatacoop.bsky.social, Adam @merseycarenhs.bsky.social, Michael @socialfinance.bsky.social, Sam @opendatamcr.bsky.social and Ste @sthelenscouncil.bsky.social for a brilliant Data Bites, and everyone in Liverpool for welcoming us!

Watch back bit.ly/databites56

French supermarket crisps are amazing. I always try as many new flavours as possible when we are over on hols 😁

A Fox/alien like creature with red orange hair and blue skin. Teeth are sharp. Strange white clothing which in closer inspection has faces. Caption: What is your need?

#WoTShowSpoilers

Finn: What is your need??!

Fandom: Season 4, NOW!

#TheWheelOfTime
#WoTSkies

Proud husband moment #OUFamily @openuniversity.bsky.social

Based on eps1-3 I’m expecting my personal score will be in line with yours! Wow, all three were great, and in Ep3 particularly I loved the way scenes from the books have been transformed into live TV 😍🔥 And you are so right about the pacing and cuts between characters/locations - so well done 🙌🏽

Just watched ep2 of s3 #TheWheelofTime and it was fantastic 🤩 contains so much book content and great TV… @amazonprime.bsky.social @sonypicturestv.bsky.social we love it, get season 4 greenlit now!