DataSpace @dataspace2.bsky.social DS2 breaks down industry verticals by enabling decentralised and secure data exchange - EU-funded research project
Visit our website: https://www.dataspace2.eu/
The Data City @thedatacity.bsky.social We tell you what companies do. Real-time data on companies and emerging sectors. thedatacity.com
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk) a UK charity using open and shared data to help schools be more energy efficient.
My background is in open data, data standards, data infrastructure & sharing.
blog.ldodds.com
Merici @merici.bsky.social there’s no rule that says you can’t rewrite all the rules
Currently: Fellow. Ex: US Digital Service, CFPB, Ideo. co-founder Ada’s List
DC via London, Boulder, and the Sandhills of Nebraska
Direct File fan account
Alex Coley @alexrcoley.bsky.social Data Strategy & Design Leader
Passionate about the power of data to help organisations make a positive difference in the world. Director at Epimorphics Ltd, former Deputy Director for Data at Defra. Based in South Wales, UK. With #aphantasia
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
Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social Data optimist.
Data, infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc.
Director of Research & Policy @ OpenMined.
The GovLab @thegovlab.org Action research center studying and co-designing data-driven & participatory decisions #data #opendata #innovation #datacollaboratives #crowdlaw. Learn more at: thegovlab.org
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social Responsible strategy, data & innovation consultant
Loves teaching
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Member, Society of Hopeful Technologists
#opendata #netzero
France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, academic lead of ai@cam, Accelerate Science, author of The Atomic Human, proceedings editor for PMLR.
leebryant.bsky.social @leebryant.bsky.social 
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
James Farrar @jamesfarrar.bsky.social Worker Info Exchange
Martin Parr @martinparr.bsky.social Data Policy & Practice Director at CABI. All things #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRdata https://www.fairprocessframework.org also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinparr1
Alex Roberts @captaininnovate.bsky.social Public servant. Into public sector innovation, disruption, emerging tech, futures, the Singularity, public admin & all things wonk. Views mine. https://www.captaininnovate.com/blog-posts/
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
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
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 
Gavin Chait; @gavin.whyqd.com I am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author.
I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis.
I also drink a great deal of coffee.
Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social South Asia bureau chief at The Economist
Ed Parkes @edtparkes.bsky.social Contractor and freelancer. Strategy, research, service design, UXR, data.
Currently - user centred design in humanitarian data.
www.edparkes.co.uk
🏳️🌈
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
@dickienorris.bsky.social @dickienorris.bsky.social 
Jamie Arnold @jamiearnold.com Humanist, agilist, ale-ist. DOGS. Sometimes, I write things down at jamiearnold.com.
Tom Taylor @tomtaylor.co.uk Co-founder & CPTO at https://breakroom.cc. Helps run @edinburghgravel.cc. Pushing the bees where they want to go.
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Linda Humphries @lindah.bsky.social Digital strategy delivery, open standards, open data, responsible tech.
Was moominlounge in the other place 🐦
Pic credit: Adam Tinworth @odcamp
Public Digital director
Open Data Manchester CIC chair
360Giving Trustee and standard committee member
John Sheridan @johnlsheridan.bsky.social I’m a Civil Servant, with a keen interest in many things including computers, data, law, digital preservation and archives. You’ll find me at The National Archives, helping to look after the digital archive, web archive, legislation.gov.uk etc.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
The School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Roo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk Geek. Cymru. Digital technology specialist. Consulting Practice CTO at Public Digital. Independent Member for Digital at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Co-founder of GDS. Views my own.
Stephen Hale @hmshale.bsky.social Digital, service design, research, public services, Ex Lagomer, Cinimo, Brazil, Ingenious Friend, DH, FCO, DCC, KICC
https://hmshale.com
Ashleigh Roberts Collacott @itsashleighhyo.bsky.social Women In Tech Advocate | Driving innovation and transformation across Defence, Government and Policing
Wendy Coello @wendycoello.bsky.social Director at dxw. Most things public sector digital and comms. Sheffielder.
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
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.
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 🏳️⚧️
Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/
Hera Hussain @herahussain.bsky.social Founder of Chayn - fight gender-based violence with tech. Feminist technologist. Living trauma-informed design. Forbes & MIT U35. EYL40. Ashoka Fellow.🇵🇰🇬🇧
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Quoll @gearon.org Clojurista, Ontologist, Graph Databasist, and PhD student.
Not offended at DMs, unless it’s spam
Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com- R Andrew Rasiej @rasiej.bsky.social Social/Civic entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Civic Hall, Founder of Personal Democracy Forum, Mouse.org, Chairman, NY Tech Alliance.
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social The robots are coming and we need to make a great example for them. Author, presenter, A11y lover, Online teacher at Skillshare and LinkedIn Learning
James Darling @abscond.org http://abscond.org
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
James Cronin @cronin.xxx Internet, charities, chocolate & dogs.
Founder, chair, director or trustee of a truly marvelous list of organisations that this box is too narrow too contain 🏳️🌈
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Josh Bailey @joshbailey.bsky.social Principal Global Economist, Economist Intelligence Unit | Focused on North America and global macroeconomics | Ex @cabinetofficeuk & @hmtreasury | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸
Christopher Soghoian @christopher.soghoian.net Previously: Senior Advisor for Privacy and Cybersecurity, Office of Senator Ron Wyden.
Joi Ito @joi.ito.com 
Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk Politics, policy, music and blah.
https://www.thestory-network.com/ ,ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor
From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
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.
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
Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social Data visualizations & information graphics by David McCandless. Plus favourite finds & graphics from around the web. Making sense of the world - well, trying to - since 2009.
https://linktr.ee/infobeautiful
Josema Alonso @josema.eurosky.social Having worked for many years at the intersection of technology and society @webfoundation and @w3c, I moved back to data governance and interoperability again @ctic and @semic.eu.
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
https://o11y.news
Ian Mulheirn @ianmulheirn.bsky.social Economics and policy
Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social A mix of stuff: mainly #opendata, #FOI, #dataprotection, #geospatial, #openweb, #genAI, #techpolicy. Half-formed thoughts posted for my own amusement. Still on X/Twitter at @owenboswarva. Sites www.owenboswarva.com (with blog) + www.datadaptive.com. He/him
Chris Adams @mrchrisadams.net Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my posts. A member of climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation.
@mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
The Real Steve Peters @stevepeters.bsky.social Exploding Kittens Special Ops | Experience Designer | Puzzle Ninja | VR & Escape Room Tinkerer | OG ARG Maker | Professional Shenaniganizer | Ornamental Hermit | Los Angeles
stevepeters.org | explodingkittens.com
Ben Balter @ben.balter.com Helping distributed teams work in the open & default to async | Author of Open & Async | Ex-GitHub Director, Presidential Innovation Fellow, attorney
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Simon Rogers @simonrogers.bsky.social Author: What We Ask Google, May 2026. Data storyteller @Google. Was @Twitter @Guardian. Co-host with Alberto Cairo & Scott Klein of http://datajournalismpodcast.com
Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social Author, deputy editor at The Economist, maker of pizzas, drummer, gamer, history nerd 
Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social As disappointed as you are
Leisa @leisa.bsky.social Atlanta
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics- J Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social Gamer, coder, author, nerd
Books at https://www.laurie-mather.co.uk
Nerdery at www.jargonautical.com
Yodit B @yodit.bsky.social 
Irn-Bru Sky @irnbru.bsky.social Here for the girders.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Alan Smith @theboysmithy.ft.com Head of Visual and Data Journalism @financialtimes.com; Honorary Prof @UCL Social Data Institute. Views expressed are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
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”
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
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!