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Richard Pope

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I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.

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Rob Blackie@robblackie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The BBC, and particularly its news, is critical to our democracy - and to stopping our society from fracturing. Saving small amounts by cutting key news programmes is a disaster, with no upside.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING – BBC CUTS: Radio 4 to end The World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show and Crossing Continents next year. Newshour will replace The World Tonight on Radio 4 and World Service.

Dafydd Vaughan@daivaughan.uk · 3mo ago

This is probably the strongest piece of advice I've seen for a while, and feels very pointed... "Departments should treat privacy as an exception control for specific, credible routes to harm, and not as a compensating control for inadequate capability."

Richard Pope@richardpope.org · 3mo ago

I can't tell isn't was just a late 80s early 90s blip (or age) but it seemed when I was younger questions of 'confidence' played out in the House of Commons, at least initially. Now they play out passively within internal party systems and are worse for it? All a bit 'use your words'

peterkwells@peterkwells.com · 3mo ago

As Owen says DSIT senior leaders/politicians should be furious at the wasted money and wasted opportunity for economic growth / better services underlying this mess

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ordnance Survey demands removal of nearly all Council Tax address datasets previously released as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... This relates to my ongoing #openaddresses project at datadaptive.com/addr/ #FOI #UKhousing #localgov #proptech #govtech #datapolicy #openweb #opendata

Removal of open address datasets from 57 local authorities With great reluctance, I have today removed from the web downloads containing Council Tax property lists released as open data by 57 local authorities: 53 in England (including 14 London boroughs), one in Wales, and three in Scotland. The removed datasets contain more than seven million open address records in total. Information about those datasets remains at datadaptive.com/addr/. At the time of writing, none of the relevant local authorities have informed me that permission for re-use under the Open Government Licence was granted by them in error. OS/GeoPlace have not offered any specific evidence of analysis in support of their claim of infringement.
Richard Pope@richardpope.org · 3mo ago

Given generative AI is all about predicting next words, when do I get a better spell check!? (I regularly have to Google words because my dyslexia induced misspellings are so bad my computer just shrugs).

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Richard Pope@richardpope.org · 3mo ago

Keep coming back to this video in the context of AI-based public services: [www.youtube.com/watch If mentalizing / epistemic trust is the key to learning some things, is it ever OK for machines to fake it, or should machines only be in a supporting role to human relationships.

Richard Pope@richardpope.org · 4mo ago

The Palintir mini manifesto at least makes it clear that if you buy their software you are buying it to a transnational political, military and economic project. The problem is public procurement officers are not exactly best placed to make that sort of decision. Software is politics!