Five fabulous panellists talk about how deliberative democracy can support climate justice! Precis and link to recording in blog 👇 @climateoxford.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @alanrenwick.bsky.social @timschwanen.bsky.social @reemaspatel.bsky.social #MutiraoGlobalCOP30 #RHRNClimate

Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU)@gchuoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

📜 New Blog 📜 GCHU Research Associate Dr Alison Chisholm shares insights from the Deliberative Democracy and Climate Justice panel discussion held in Oxford as part of the Right Here Right Now global summit. Read the full blog and access the event recording at: www.gchu.org.uk/2025/06/deli...

Are you interested in the use of AI in the public sector? Watch the recording of our recent webinar with @ukevaluation.bsky.social & @the-sra.org.uk to hear @reemaspatel.bsky.social discuss how AI systems are currently deployed in public service delivery. Watch now📽️➡️

Designing and Assuring Equitable AI in Public Services - with Reema Patel

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply integrated into UK public services — from healthcare and social support to policing, education and welfare…

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On June 12, @reemaspatel.bsky.social and Ellie O'Keefe will explore practical insights from a deliberative inquiry process led by the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Institute, as well as a newly developed framework and toolkit designed to support deliberative and participatory practices.

Join me to explore the potential for including the public in shaping the future of AI. I'll be exploring the potential deliberative democracy has for transforming our relationship with AI at interpersonal, local, national and international levels. And of course, transforming our use of AI itself...

Centre for Deliberative Democracy@deldemucan.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't forget to register for our next Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange seminar where we will be joined by @reemaspatel.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social 🧐Dear ChatGPT, what is democracy? 🗓️Tuesday 6 May, 6pm- 7pm AEST 📍Online Register: delibdem.org/seminar-series

Don't forget to register for our next Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange seminar where we will be joined by @reemaspatel.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social 🧐Dear ChatGPT, what is democracy? 🗓️Tuesday 6 May, 6pm- 7pm AEST 📍Online Register: delibdem.org/seminar-series

Make sure you register for our next Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange seminar where we will be joined by @reemaspatel.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for this discussion. 🧐Dear ChatGPT, what is democracy? 🗓️Tuesday 6 May, 6pm- 7pm 📍 Online delibdem.org/seminar-series

Last week it was fantastic to hear from our international fellows working across New Zealand, Brazil, South East Asia and Ecuador. And beautiful weather at the BBC in Salford Quays!

Kicking off the @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social Summit this morning. We are convening two rounds of research fundee recipients and our international fellows at the BBC in Salford!

Join us! I'll be speaking to a working paper that sets out strategies for including public voices in AI, and the potential for a Global Citizens Assembly in this field. @peoplepowered.bsky.social www.peoplepowered.org/events-conte...

AI for Digital Democracy: How to navigate opportunities and threats — People Powered

Explore the latest innovations in AI and participatory democracy. Hear about new helpful tools and resources, including our Playbook!

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Reflecting on a thoroughly brilliant day exploring participatory research and practice at the AI Summit this year. Working with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @iswe-foundation.bsky.social @connectedbydata.org and so many others was a real pleasure.

Artificial intelligence could help power Britain's growth - but only if it is well-regulated, argues @reemaspatel.bsky.social fabians.org.uk/fair-and-equ...

Fair and equal - Fabian Society

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform our economy and society. A recent sector study led by Perspective Economics for the UK government has found that there are more than 3,000 AI com...

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My piece on the role of artificial intelligence is now online in the Fabian Review. The timing couldn't have been better!

Fabian Society@thefabians.bsky.social · 2y ago

Artificial intelligence could help power Britain's growth - but only if it is well-regulated, argues @reemaspatel.bsky.social fabians.org.uk/fair-and-equ...

What a conference in the Catalan mountains, with views of the Montserrat exploring digital commons. Many new ideas, methodologies and connections have been made. Thank you!

Gorgeous views of the Catalan mountains at this retreat on the digital, data and AI commons. Thank you to the Platoniq Foundation for organising. Tomorrow I will share more about @iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social work.

The city of Helsinki closes all it social media accounts, full stop

Reupping this one in light of Starmer's latest announcements. First two paragraphs engage with what implications for the economy are.

Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest from me in the Fabian Review before the close of the year. I consider the implications of a forthcoming AI Bill. Here's to another year of saying AI needs regulating(!)....

The latest from me in the Fabian Review before the close of the year. I consider the implications of a forthcoming AI Bill. Here's to another year of saying AI needs regulating(!)....

We are proud to have consulted on this new landscape review on participatory and inclusive data stewardship. We've been working with @reemaspatel.bsky.social & @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social since our launch, but this piece of work is really crucial to us. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...

Participatory and inclusive data stewardship

A landscape review

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It was a joy to steer and shape this report. You will find a foreword in it from me, reflecting on the deep social and economic traditions of commons thinking that foreground it.

Ada Lovelace Institute@adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new landscape review examines the foundations of participatory and inclusive data stewardship. The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...

And #impact through funding excellent and important work!! @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great to see the Workers Observatory getting a write up in The National today:

We are delighted to be enabling the Workers Observatory to do such excellent work engaging tech workers @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social through the Public Voices in AI fund

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great to hear Xabier Villares introduce the Workers Observatory in Edinburgh.

Here is an open access article, part of the AHRC funded Pandemic and Beyond rapid response COVID-19 grant. What did running citizens juries reveal about democracy in a pandemic? Find out.... www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

A very different but important perspective in my view. In my experience online can be incredibly engaging and participatory, if we can get the design right. It can also be more inclusive.

Emmanuel Valax@evalax.bsky.social · 2y ago

Institutions reverting to in-person-only events are reinstating pre-COVID exclusion. Knowledge-sharing events must include an online option, at the very least, to allow people in the Global South to hear and contest what is being said about them. Do better. #AcademicSky

This is an interesting idea.....

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want a cooperative university that we run. Fair and transparent pay and governance, non-hierarchical and inclusive, dedicated investment in teaching and local community, purpose-driven and functional. We need a new vision grounded in reality.

My #INSPIRE colleague Rikki Dean has pulled together this awesome pack on #democraticinnovation. Give it a follow for the leading thinkers and practitioners in the space.

Rikki Dean@rikkidean.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've added lots of people to this Democratic Innovations Starter Pack since I last shared it. Sorry if I missed you, it has been a busy week. The list is a lot more diverse than the below picture makes it look! go.bsky.app/LX11yEA

Lovely review by Times Literary Supplement of my late friend Shereen Akhtar's book of poems, Rabbi/Robin, one of my favourite reads of the year: www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...

Rabbi/Robin by Shereen Akhtar | Book review | The TLS

Is contemporary poetry uniquely obsessed with identity? The current priorities of commercial publishers and Arts Council funding mean that many writers now struggle for recognition from the poetry wor...

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Building visions for participatory AI. Literally!! Amidst the beautiful grounds of Ness Botanic Gardens run by Liverpool University. The weather gods favoured us...

This pack has some fabulous thinkers and practitioners in the field of deliberative democracy. One to look at for sure!

Thorsten Sterk@thorstensterk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello BlueSky, I made a starter pack of riders of the deliberative wave. Anyone missing?

What a beautiful location in Liverpool University’s Botanic Gardens for a discussion on Participation, People and Power in Data and AI. Thank you @reemaspatel.bsky.social for organising this with the Digital Good Network, Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative and Responsible AI UK

This metaphor for writing is really just excellent.

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2y ago

Being a perfectionist in your writing is the default setting for new writers. We all start that way. But when you’re building a house, you don’t paint it as you go. You lay a foundation, build a structure, put in the wiring & pipes, build the walls and lay the floors, THEN you can think about paint.