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Derek Alton @derekalton.bsky.social Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Brendan Arnold @brendanarnold.bsky.social #CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by Following Jesus, husbanding and dadding, supporting #bcafc. Displaced Yorkshireman in Croydon. Governor @minsterinfants.bsky.social. Digital government, public service, hope. TBI; formerly DWP, NHS, GDS, OECD. These views are mine.
https://bm.wel.by/
Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
Monika Swiatek @monikasw.bsky.social Driving open working and user‑centred change across Wales.
Service design | public sector | healthcare | UCD | surfing. She/her 🏴
Lizzy Bell @lizzybell.bsky.social Leading the digital team at the Crown Prosecution Service. Old lag of digital government. Ex DHSC, DfE, Ofsted
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.
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)
Joshua Mouldey @joshuamouldey.bsky.social Product @scotgov. That and other gubbins.
Neil Lawrence @ox1digital.co.uk Former Product Manager / localgov survivor / LocalGovDigital alumni / All my views / Stupidly excited by default / European citizen and French resident / passionate about not using the word “passionate”
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
London North Eastern Railway @lner.co.uk Freedom all the way 🚆
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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
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Joanne Hagerty @joannehagerty.bsky.social Building a better world with innovation. Training, facilitation and innovation support @ Firefly innovation. Tweeting about things that interest and amuse including business for good and Scottish Football. www.fireflyinnovates.com
David Heath @davidheath.org Trying to make things work better
James Reeve @jereeve.bsky.social Husband, dad, chemist, services, gardening and thinking the best of people
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Abe Greenspoon @worldofabe.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦 interested in public service, politics, history, sports, and community building.
📍 Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
Mike Rose @mikerose.co.uk I am often found talking about *intellectual property rights* and how they manifest in *digital* and *data* stuff.
I also often share dog and Dorset photos!
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Katy Beale @katybeale.bsky.social Cycling, running, raving.
Ceramics.
Local gov, tech for good & public purpose.
Design and digital.
🏳️🌈
Currently: CDEO, Westminster City Council
Previously: Hackney Council, DHSC, Equal Experts, Yodomo, Caper.
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Doug Knox @dougknox.bsky.social Dad (he/him) | Trumpeter | Head of Technical Services Group at Forestry and Land Scotland | Passionate re leadership & forestry | Unofficial 🌳🌲
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Andreas Amsler @andreasamsler.bsky.social Catalyst Leadership. fogdt.ch | #OpenData Steward, Data & Tech Lead. MeteoSwiss | Community Member. #GovDesign, #DataGov | Board Member. Veloblitz.ch, staatmalanders.ch | Advisory Board Member. CHplusplus.ch, OpenData.ch | Dad of two | On a bicycle
Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social Product person in central government, and part of OneTeamGov.
Co-founded Glean, a design agency for international development.
Manchester now, previously Birmingham, Dhaka and Phnom Penh. Good people doing good work together is my jam.
Dan Howarth @danhowarth.bsky.social Ally in training. Generally curious. Rookie dad. Into hills, indy mags and #designjustice. Content strategy and IA in UK gov.
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Stefan Janusz @ndajz.bsky.social International responsible AI and Data Governance projects. Working with @ceimia.bsky.social & [birdsite] @GPAI_PMIA. Dad-Dad-Dadio x3 ex-@OfficeForAI @ODIHQ @royalsociety @QMUL Nanotech PhD. Born at 340.01ppm
James Kemp @jamesmkemp.bsky.social Public servant, delivering change mostly. Have worked in many departments. Based in Scotland. #GovPDC Explorer Scout Leader, sometimes gamer & writer
Nicola Cooper @nicolacooper.bsky.social Technology and Digital Innovation Lead @scottishcare.org, FRSA.
Design & Digital Innovation, thinking and doing. Passion for social care, happiness and humans.
Davie Hutchison @daviehutchison.bsky.social Father of two short Irishmen.
Untidy Typophile.
Unprofessionally beardy.
Excel enthusiast.
Campaigning for the SNP and an independent Scotland.
Jenni Hislop @jenjensuperjen.bsky.social Mostly I post about Scottish politics (I am pro-indy & SNP) or work-related stuff that I'm interested in (healtheconomics & RStats). Maybe occasional memes or stuff about knitting. Reskeets not an endorsement...& all the other old disclaimers!
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Angus Robertson @angusrobertson.bsky.social 🏴SNP MSP Candidate for Edinburgh Central (SNP) 🏛️Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture 2021-26
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data.
#RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal.
Trustee: Honeyscribe, Reading List Foundation and Open Door Taunton. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Roo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social @kinship.works @transformgovtalks.bsky.social @policycamp.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
Gavin @gavinbeckett.bsky.social Director at Public Digital, supporting organisations through radical transformation. Spent 20+ year in UK LocalGov, and 6 years at Placecube working with councils to co-design and develop an open source SaaS digital platform.
Ciarán Hayes @ciaranhayes.bsky.social
Maggie Cusack @maggiecusack.bsky.social President of Munster Technological University, Ireland
@MTU.ie
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Jonathan @jonodrew.bsky.social I secure things and speak in public. Sometimes I speak in public about securing things.
Helmsman
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Sam Ghibaldan @samghib.bsky.social Consumer Scotland CEO, human, runner, reader.
Mud and Routes @mudandroutes.bsky.social UK based hillwalking website
www.mudandroutes.com
Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social Something will turn up; it usually does
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Calum Maclean @caldamac.bsky.social
FDA Union @fdaunion.bsky.social We're the trade union for managers and professionals in public service. Find out more at www.fda.org.uk
Public and Commercial Services Union @pcsunion.bsky.social UK trade union for civil and public servants, and private sector workers on government contracts. Standing up for public services and social justice.
www.pcs.org.uk
Emma Desouza @emmadesouza.bsky.social Civic Innovation Specialist | Civic Initiative Founder & Co-facilitator | Director NI Emerging Leaders, National Committee on American Foreign Policy | Journalist & Commentator | Bylines: Guardian, Irish Times/Examiner, Byline Times, Journal.ie
Desouza.ie
Irish Independent @independent.ie Support our journalism - become a subscriber to the Irish Independent: https://subscribe.independent.ie/
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Over 17 years rewilding our 73-acre farm on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. In love with Earth's biosphere.
Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account.
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
Gordon Johnston @gordonedinburgh.bsky.social Edinburgh mischievous atheist, gay, geek. Est. 1964. Mostly harmless.
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
Amanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Stacey Crump @staceyc.bsky.social LCFC supporter, going very grey, older and sometimes wiser, fighting my natural levels of sarcasm. Working to be the best i can at leading innovative and transformative people and teams. Also fitting in parenting 3 amazing kids.
Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams, lover of theatre, drinker of gin...
Government Product Person and community builder
Volunteer @guidedogs.
Tailender.
School governor, Enterprise Advisor
She/her
David Buck @davidbuckster.bsky.social He doing organisation development and design. Farming and Countryside Programme, Defra. #OneTeamGov, @ukgovcamp.bsky.social
Government romantic and lover of decaf tea.
UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Esko Reinikainen @reinikainen.eurosky.social Systems Change Sherpa
Helping people understand and access generative AI tools
Creative Industries (again)
Supporting Ukraine defend against the genocidal invasion by our barbaric neighbour
Tango dancing
Sauna enthusiast
Study level flight simulators
Stamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social Service designer, DHSC. It's more than what you bargained for but it's a little less than what you paid for.
Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social Dad, public servant, sports nut. Making better use of data to deliver better outcomes, keen to see how this app works out
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
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Steve Parks @steveparks.me Geeking out about writing, entrepreneurship, journalism, food, tech — or ideally a combination.
European, living/writing in France & running a business in UK.
https://www.steveparks.me
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
Senior delivery manager at @tpximpact.com
https://www.cattell.com
jennyvass.bsky.social @jennyvass.bsky.social Day job: community building and leadership training for the CEOs of the public sector
Solo mum by choice - so basically never sleeps
Sticker shop https://shepersistedstudio.etsy.com
Janet Hughes @janethughes.bsky.social Director General Reform and Efficiency, UK Cabinet Office
Allotmenteer, reader, over-enthusiast.
Here to learn and make things work better.
Pretend Cato @pretendcato.bsky.social Democracy things as COO/Director at Delib. She/her. Not all work. Rhymes with potato.
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.
Annie Heath @annieheath.bsky.social Head of Tech, Data, Experience Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. Public Sector Endurance Medallist. Wife to music writer Harold Heath. Daughter of a loop da loop era.
Ian Falconer @ikfalconer.bsky.social Just add caffeine... Husband & Dad - Carer, valet, butler, PA, Superstar DJ Manager. Always researching.
Memorial Device ANT 🏅#MDANT
Exiled 🏴🏴 in 🇮🇪
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social
Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social Virgin Media News Correspondent but these are my own views and not those of my employer.
Ireland.