Opening panel ⁦Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais⁩ on #DPI and a complete delight to find ⁦Helen Margetts⁩ here whose pioneering work on government tech is not praised enough. Nails it as ever.

Yesterday's riots have woken people up to the scale of the far right challenge. But we’re still getting a lot of things wrong. 1/ The fascists achieved something: they have terrorised Britain’s BAME population. I’ve got people contacting me saying they don’t feel safe…

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles

Opinion I This sad, reprehensible, empty little man is finally exposed for what he is 🖋️ Ian Dunt trib.al/GYeKUfc

By the way, no way am I leaving Twitter. This place is like a lovely pub, that got taken over by some soulless pub company and with a full on wazzock as a new landlord. But I was here first and I’m staying.

The new government faces an urgent challenge: revitalising the UK's crumbling public services without major increases in public spending Helen Margetts Cosmina Dorobantu Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 explore in their latest article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #DigitalGovernment #ArtificialIntelligence

New! ‘How to Build Progressive Public Services with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence’ write Helen Margetts Cosmina Dorobantu and Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 Oxford Internet Institute The Alan Turing Institute in their new blog. (Original article published today open access in Political Quarterly). Blog post: bit.ly/3McPHGs

whenever Elon Musk tweets about UK politics I think of this

News alert! Governments can learn from Silicon Valley as they tackle AI and Data Science, say Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute The Alan Turing Institute and Patrick Dunleavy LSE. Read their new study published today by Public Money & Management. Taylor&Francis News @CIPFA: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/go…

Delighted to see article Helen Margetts Patrick Dunleavy Oxford Internet Institute LSE 'The Political Economy of Digital Government: How Silicon Valley firms drove conversion to data science & AI in public management' in Public Money & Management,highlighted University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/node/8768346

The study from Oxford Internet Institute and LSE highlights how governments in the US, UK and Australia were slow to modernise public services due to their dependence on traditional large computer firms. More info ⬇️

There needs to be a really thorough review of the impact of Voter ID (as the government has promised). We shouldn't just let the waters close over this.

Has anyone shown Musk how to google stuff? A very quick search would have told him this is nonsense.

This is a brilliant line in Peter Kyle’s speech yesterday: “they promised a small state but all they did was give us a slow one”. This is at the heart of so many current problems & takes attention away from the biggest, knottiest issues decision-makers should be grappling with.