Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social Product, digital government, (currently supporting the post-secondary sector). Sighthounds, LFC #YNWA. Somewhere between Fergus, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto. Also a suffering Cowboys fan.
“Mundus sine Caesaribus.”
@katylalonde.bsky.social @katylalonde.bsky.social 📚 Reader. 💻 Product manager. 🐦 Occasional birder.
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better.
Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. Unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
Send somebody a groaner on a postcard: https://dadjokepostcards.com
Paul Smith @smith.dev Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and O’s fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place
Co-founder of Ad Hoc
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
David Eaves @eaves.ca Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Sandra Gornall @gornall.bsky.social Web person. Ex-librarian. Ex-X.
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Richard Pope @richardpope.org 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.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Honey @honeygolightly.bsky.social Professionally awkward.
Alexander Iosad @iosad.fyi Progress, policy, practice. Past: TBI, edtech VC, history of science DPhil.
AI & tech optimist, not solutionist. Fan of universities, state capacity, 🏏. School governor, occasionally. Diasporan ✡️.
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Anatole Papadopoulos @anatolep.bsky.social
Michael Karlin @supergovernance.bsky.social Digital policy @ Canadian Digital Service. Reasonably subversive. Husband of Amy. Skeets entirely my nonsense and not my employer. He/him. Jewish/🏳️🌈
FireBethFox @firebethfox.bsky.social Human muppet trying to be OK in late stage capitalism. From BC in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
I care about Anti-racism, Reconciliation, and Public Service. My ❤️ languages are questions, gifs, or introspection. Your results may vary.
#protecttranskids🏳️🌈
Apolitical @apolitical.bsky.social Making governments smarter, to deliver for people and the planet | Join 500,000+ public servants & policymakers today: http://apolitical.co/signup
spydergrrl @spydergrrl.bsky.social Outdoorsy UXer. Workshop design coach & consultant. Lives with anxiety. Runs on espresso and Star Wars. She/her. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Founder of CanUX. Best known for popularizing the phrase "UX Theatre". https://spydergrrl.com
Ryan Androsoff @ryanandrosoff.bsky.social Vice-President of Learning and Leadership at Institute on Governance, Host of the Let’s Think Digital podcast.
Ines Mergel @inesmergel.bsky.social Professor of Public Administration | University of Konstanz | Fellow National Academy of Public Administration | Supervisory Board Member eGov Academy | Founding Editor Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age
Rebecca Nava @wheres-the-any-key.bsky.social Product at the GC | Tech 🤖| Books 📚 | Podcasts 🎧 | Art 🎨| Sex education & health 🧠
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design.
Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
John Kenney @johnrkenney.bsky.social Digital governance, music, footy, Halisky, stuttering pride
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Martha Edwards @maredwards.bsky.social Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
rumon carter @rumon.ca Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics.
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Natasha Clarke @natsclarke.bsky.social Mother of pugs
Football mom (yes this football 🏈)
Former Deputy Minister CSDS
Still doing this digital gov thing. Making progress for people one pixel at a time.
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com
jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
https://www.thehomescreen.org/
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
https://usdigitalserviceorigins.org/
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Laura Yarrow @laurayarrow.bsky.social Head of Design for GOV.UK at GDS. Ex HM Land Registry. Public speaker. Observer of humans. Crisp connoisseur. Yarn hoarder. Northerner.
Celeste Côté (she/her) @celestecote.bsky.social Product design lead and 🇨🇦 public servant by day. Musician, foodie and budding wine connoisseur by night. Would love to do more civic tech volunteer stuff in spare time. ✌🏻 *We’re rebooting @yowcivictech.bsky.social !
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Kevin Klyman @klyman.bsky.social AI Policy @ Stanford + Harvard
Former - Digital Forensic Research Lab, Digital Impact Alliance, UN Global Pulse, Human Rights Watch
Researching - acceptable use of digital tech, evaluations of dual-use capabilities, transparency of LLMs (or lack thereof)
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
Dr. Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei.bsky.social Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, CoFounder @ai4allorg #AI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare
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