Love this project. Youth-centred, cohort approach, NCS-funded, our Q: "How might we support young people to understand, examine and positively influence how they use and engage with Generative AI, becoming thoughtful makers and critical users of this technology?" www.linkedin.com/posts/cast-c...

CAST Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology on LinkedIn: 🙏 Thank you to everyone that joined us at yesterday's welcome session for…

🙏 Thank you to everyone that joined us at yesterday's welcome session for the Youth Sector Innovation Incubator, a new programme from CAST and NCS - National…

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Starting in 2 weeks! Our @thekingsfund.bsky.social community to support people who are adapting & creating change with tech in the NHS & social care. We know it’s not easy but see the potential for tech done well to help staff & patients. Come join us - www.kingsfund.org.uk/leadership-d...

Adapt To Thrive - Digital Health Care | Community Of Interest | The King's Fund

Explore how to adapt and thrive in the developing digital health and care system by joining our new community of interest.

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Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by tweeting your fave women in STEM #ALD24!

If you were looking to book somewhere in London for early evening food (for 10ish people) and ideally wanted to support a social enterprise / Bcorp / charity - where would you choose? Any suggestions please?

👀 AI experimentation canvas: free to download! At CAST, we've designed a simple canvas to help guide us as we think through any use of #GenAI. Read more in @dannno.bsky.social's blog - and download Miro and printable versions of the canvas to use for yourself 👉 buff.ly/4e4kQIP #AI #resource #free

AI Experimentation canvas

We have had a number of requests to share Generative AI (GenAI) policies that charitable organisations can adapt and reuse. The challenge…

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After 15 years of work with Rosemary Leith to make the web more accessible, affordable and a trusted space for all we wind down the Web Foundation to focus on building pro-human systems that respect and empower individuals. Huge thank you to all involved. webfoundation.org

Please share: opportunity to join The Children’s Society through 2025 as Director of Marketing & Innovation We’ve a big job to do in the year ahead as we develop the biggest appeal in our history; and you’d have a big role in helping us deliver it t.co/4584CCezTV

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Fab Job Opp! Join The Children’s Society as Marketing & Innovation Director (mat cover / 12 months) Brand/Audience/Stories - to change children’s lives: we need dreamers that do All backgrounds welcome 🧡 careers.childrenssociety.org.uk/recruitment/...

This kind of badge day #MoveSlowlyAndMaintainThings

Having spent the last few weeks kneedeep in a project that looks at the links between public technologies and productivity, I think the hill I will die on is that -- if anything is going to unlock people's time and ability to do more things -- it is *service design*, particularly for onboarding

A new essay by me for the @britishacademy.bsky.social series on A Good Digital Society. The case for a Digital Civil Society Observatory - a new body responsible for putting the empirical expertise of civil society at the heart of tech policymaking www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

People Not Code: The Case for a Digital Civil Society Observatory

This essay makes the case for Digital Civil Society Observatory, an evidence-gathering body that would sit alongside the AI Safety Institute and the Turing Institute.

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Let's see if this works like Twitter did... Just starting a fascinating project discovering and defining approaches to help a national charity's digital people get user research usable and used across the teams in their org. I'd really value 15 minutes or so with you, if you've done similar?

Today's (re) learning. That design feedback model I liked? The one I couldn't find? It's because I was thinking it was called 20:40:80, and it's not, it's 30:60:90. Thank you, Rachel. www.atlassian.com/blog/product... (And yes, I was misremembering the 80:20 from Pareto.)

Avoid the seagull effect: the 30/60/90 framework for feedback - Work Life by Atlassian

Sourcing feedback from coworkers is tricky business. Here's a simple framework for wrapping structure around how and when you ask for comments on your work. We promise it will help alleviate the frust...

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I enjoyed this piece by Prof Ethan Mollick about how AI will only make a difference if in the hands of experts who surface their own expert thinking to guide it. Very much AI as constructive tool not AI as “cheap replacement” or “universal good”. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D

Ideas come from the edges, not the center

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Dusting off medium.com/hackernoon/s... to think about what's new/should change, especially with an GenAI lens - any thoughts v welcome

Six tenets of tech for good

In our determination to see more and better use of tech for good, we’ve looked to understand what have been the underlying drivers of the…

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