Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg.
Persistent tapping will break the stone.
#IStillBelieveInDigitalTransformation
Own views - mostly about:
Cymraeg / Welsh ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
User-centred services for public good
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
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
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
codebar @codebar.io We are a charity that runs free programming workshops for minority group members. We are all about community and making a difference.
We operate in 45 locations around the world as well as virtually.
Sign up here โก๏ธ https://codebar.io/
Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social that weird masochist you heard about, author of "Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose" and repped by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Tony Edwards @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social Doer of things | Often with .NET MAUI | Frequently with JS | Always with a cat close by | Usually with hip-hop playing in the background
rhiannonldavies @rhiannonldavies.bsky.social Digital enabler for HigherEd & Charity
Trustee for GardenOrganicUK
IT & Digital Director for Association of Charitable Foundations
Digital Advisor & Mentor for Exeter Uni
Digital Leadership Coach
AltMBA | ADHD | Bristol | Feminist | She/Her
Pixelhop @pixelhop.io Indie makers of cool web things.
๐ฉโ๐ป Agency: https://pixelhop.io | ๐ค AI bots: https://chatthing.ai | ๐ Love Vue.js
๐ Cornwall, UK ๐โโ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
๐ถ Beagle called Ajax
Cornwall Council @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social Hello! We're Cornwall Council.
www.cornwall.gov.uk
Robert @astrotutor.bsky.social Youth Programme Coordinator for Tech Cornwall.
Amateur astronomer, photographer (digital, film, stereoscopic, astro), digital maker.
Helen Bevan @helenbevan.bsky.social Change facilitator, co-designer of change interventions, speaker. Prof. of Practice in Health & Care Improvement at Warwick Business School. Advisor to NHS Horizons. Senior Fellow of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA. Views are my own.
Digital Inclusion Toolkit @diginclusionkit.bsky.social Digital inclusion advice for councils, by councils. Powered by 100%DigitalLeeds and @TechResort. Previously funded by UK Gov
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
SDinGov @sdingov.bsky.social 11 March 2026 | Virtual, online | virtual.sdingov.net
23-25 September 2026 | Edinburgh | sdingov.net
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services.
Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social Staff Developer, Lean/Agile coach, speaker, blogger, pattern hunter, poet, writer, complexity thinker, free will skeptic, Londoner, Goth, she/her.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
Amy McNichol @amymcnichol.bsky.social Knows her own know best. Agile comms and content design. Curator of @allconsuming.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
Vimla Appadoo @thatgirlvim.bsky.social Co-Founder of Honey Badger. Trustee of diversityuk. Board member at Greater Manchester LEP. Podcaster. Keynote Speaker. Won some awards.
www.thatgirlvim.com
Linda Humphries @lindah.bsky.social Digital strategy delivery, open standards, open data, responsible tech.
Was moominlounge in the other place ๐ฆ
Pic credit: Adam Tinworth @odcamp
Public Digital director
Open Data Manchester CIC chair
360Giving Trustee and standard committee member
Jo Carter @jocarter.bsky.social Mostly training government folks in Service Design | ServiceWorks founder | GovCamp Cymru organiser | Drummer | Cyclist https://www.weareserviceworks.com/
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
Kathryn Grace ๐๏ธ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Victoria Hunt @toristories.bsky.social Trying to contribute in localgov, and in life. Product person, user stories.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary ๐ they/he
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
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
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
New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more: https://www.newlocal.org.uk
Jen Hadfield @jenhadfield.bsky.social Service designer in gov. Gets joy from solving problems and making things better for people.
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
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
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.
Mark Buttanshaw @buttansma.bsky.social Curious about people, organisations, systems, leadership, culture and why things work or donโt. Seeking to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly.
Organisational Effectiveness in Ministry of Justice | Trustee at Handcrafted | Organiser at UKGovCamp
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO of Citizens Advice
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.
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
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.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
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
Amanda ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ผโฝ๏ธ๐๐ฅฆ๐ชฉ๐พ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธโฎ๏ธ
Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social Ceramic artist living in Cornwall UK. Previously digital business design, data strategy, quantified organisation. Likes firing synapses. More at annemccrossan.com
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
She/her.
Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion.
Londoner in Merseyside.
Blog at emilywebber.co.uk
Biz at hellotacit.com
Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
Itโs time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Colin Birchenall @colinbirchenall.bsky.social Mancunian๐ dad of two small Glaswegians ๐ณ. Chief Digital Officer for Glasgow City Council and Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government.
Polly Thompson @pollyrt.bsky.social "surprisingly people focussed for a tech person" | "stronger than you look" | "so embarrassing"
Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social I design public services. Doctoral researcher: design thinking x urban transport delivery. Advise @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ข
"I hope you can make me as happy as cycle lanes do" - my husband.
๐ Birmingham, UK
๐ https://linktr.ee/mpricephillips
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
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Phil Rumens @rumens.uk Principal Technologist for GDS Local. Part of @LocalGovDigital.
Advocate of technology enabled user centred design.
o7 CMDR
Stephen Janaway @stephenjanaway.bsky.social Technology leader, conference speaker, general software type person. VP Engineering at Bloom & Wild. All views expressed are mine.- S Steve Amor @steveamor.bsky.social Always Makin' an' doin', Raspberry Pi Certified Educator #STEM Ambassador, Creator of Bert & Ernie. Couch to 50k Ultra in 18 months. he/him
Dan Beasley @iamdan.bsky.social Expect me to talk about the sea, G1 Transformers, board games, my cat and probably some people and agile delivery related stuff.- K @kazhufton.bsky.social @kazhufton.bsky.social
Trilly C @trillyc.bsky.social Head of Product Management @nhsengland. Audiophile. Serial hobbyist.
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
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Nick Smith @skynick.bsky.social I'm not new here anymore. I do agile-ish things for government.
Simon Everest @simoneverest.bsky.social Head of Product and Experience at @DCMS . Trying to do less better. All views my own, not my employer's. RT and likes not endorsements.
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
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Manโข any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content ยฉ and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog- D Dave Morton @davemorton.bsky.social Public Sector User Centred Design
Brendan Arnold @brendanarnold.bsky.social #CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
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- G Gary Dunn @gdunn15.bsky.social Doing User Centred Design in Local Gov
Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social Product person at Justice Digital UK
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
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.
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
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.
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Jonathan Flowers @jonathanflowers.bsky.social Chair/NED/Adviser #localgov, "digital", governance, strategy, democracy, data, operational research. Militant optimism. Slightly retired so also: travel, theatre, WRU :-( , F1, politics-watcher, Wingnut and CFA superfan. Harpenden. #dysgwyr
Simon Gray @simongray.bsky.social I'm the real simon gray - you may know me from places such as Twitter, Facebook, and Usenet. I make post-jazz-rock-dub-persian-indian-techno with a santur, a trumpet, and Ableton Live. And things for the internet.
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions โ26). Prolific knitter. She/her
dxw @dxw.com We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us ๐ https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
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- E Please follow @edent.tel @edent.bsky.social This account is archived to prevent squatting.
Follow @edent.tel instead.
(But I'm spending more time on Mastodon)
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- J Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social Gamer, coder, author, nerd
Books at https://www.laurie-mather.co.uk
Nerdery at www.jargonautical.com
UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
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.
Ben Cheetham @bforben.uk Helping with the #LocalDigital mission at MHCLG
https://ben.cheeth.am
https://www.localdigital.gov.uk
https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend itโs sandwiches alright ๐ฅช Also baking, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data and AI at Citizens Advice ๐ ๐ค
He / Him
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
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
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.
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/
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 โpassionateโ