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Nexer_Digital @nexerdigital.com Designing digital products and inclusive services that help people to live and work better. Health, research, charity, public and education. We run #CampDigital
Chris Taylor @chrisftaylor.bsky.social product person | neutral good
Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social Former knife swallower
Unlikely to be the Chris King you are looking for. Unless I am. Then I am currently unable to take your call. 
Piali Das Gupta @pialidg.bsky.social Basically, I'm a lot about #localgov, public services, place, travel, art, culture, photography and London. And sometimes a little bit about Canada too. Migrant and citizen, at the same time.
Chris Keene @ck12.uk Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Charlotte Jee @charlottejee.bsky.social News editor at MIT Technology Review, Londoner and all-round good time gal
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
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
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
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
sugaroverflow 🌸 @sugaroverflow.com they say I’m 5’2” with 6’2” energy ✌️🍉
✧ sr dev advocate @ gitlab 🦊
✧ chaos wrangler @ biffud.com 🤔
✧ research - multi agent workflows@newspeak house 🏛️
♡ open source
♡ intersectional feminism
♡ board games
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
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social Co-editor of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Civil servants are my bag.
Henry Cooke @prehensile.bsky.social Creative technlologist, producer, researcher. Occasional artist and artistic collaborator. Tinkerer. Part-time futurist. Kindness enthusiast. Not a kiwi journalist, sorry.
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
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/
Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, photography, flippancy, unions.
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com State Capacity AI + gpo.delivery + Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich. Anti-manipulation eng, critical design, platformisation, digital public infra. 18F alum.
Host of the Sound Bulletin 90.3 FM Portland. Built mallo.fi / oregontennis.org
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com 
James Darling @abscond.org http://abscond.org
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social My curiosity is not a healthy trait.
Edtech lady leader. Ammie to mes amis.
(She/her)
https://ammienoot.com
Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk NHS Englander. Ex VCSE and BBC.
Mainly interested in volunteering, VCSE sector, public participation and engagement, so stuff around people, building communities, health, power, digital, media etc.
Husband | 🚸 Dad x2 | 💔 #ACHD
🌍 Warwickshire, UK
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
Alex Torrance @alextorrance.co.uk The Idiot
Geri Reid @gerireid.com Everyone’s fave goth Mom.
Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and nerdery. Be kind ❤️
gerireid.com
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
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/
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better. 
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.
Jo Roach @joroach.bsky.social C-Level operations, tech and data. Emergent wild thing.
Simon Pearson @simonpearson.bsky.social No valley too deep, no mountain too high
🌈 🏴
Composing / product / LGBTQ chat
Rob Butler @robbutler.com Canada Free Agent - Senior Advisor in Digital Gov
Agentic AI | ProSci Certified Change Management
@natural-resources.canada.ca
#GCDigital #DigitalGov
Let’s connect & make Gov better together!
Views are mine.
Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
buttondown.com/r4isstatic
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
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.
@NickPoole1 @nickpoole1.bsky.social Chief Exec of Ukie, championing the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry. Pronouns: he/him
Steph Gray @lesteph.com Digital, woodworking and net zero dad living (repair cafe, EV, solar, heat pump) in south London. Work-wise now: helping small orgs with digital and AI, and troubleshooting tech/supplier/team issues. https://stephgray.com/now
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 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO of Citizens Advice
Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com Actual life: Wanderings! Art, design! Buildings! Bridges! Running! Music! GTFC! etc etc!
Work: Product and service person.
📍From Grimsby
🏠 Saltaire, W Yorkshire, UK
Previously just Simon Wilson, then married @texmac.bsky.social
www.officeofwilson.com
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Terry Makewell @terrymakewell.com Gov CDTO | Evelyn Glennie Foundation Trustee | Prev Gov CTO, CDO & NHS | Accessibility | Ménière's disease
Exeter, Devon
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.
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.
Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social Anglo-Italian. 2nd Gen Immigrant. Doing #Digital in #Planning and #Government. #Strategist. #Advisor. Pensatore profondo apparentemente 🤷♂️) On a #yoga mat, playing bass or dancing. ❤️ red wine and #digital #politics, #localgov, #policy #adhd 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇺
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.
Laura Melon @bsky.surminus.com Loves melons and her cat
Shaun @sconner.net 
jlewr | Joseph | 羅瑞哲 @jlewr.bsky.social 🏴🏳️🌈 Product manager in the Welsh public sector.
❤️ Languages, TCGs, democracy, tech
💬 中文 / 日本語 / Gàidhlig / Cymraeg
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Jamie Arnold @jamiearnold.com Humanist, agilist, ale-ist. DOGS. Sometimes, I write things down at jamiearnold.com.
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
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
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.
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
James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social Head of Product for NHS App at NHS England. Expect digital health + culture + cricket + games + low-res puns. 
Laura Bunt @laurabunt.bsky.social CEO at YoungMinds. Society, technology, design, change. Hoping this is a more hopeful place. 
Will Myddelton @myddelton.bsky.social Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
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
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.
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.
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
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend it’s sandwiches alright 🥪 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 📊 🤖
He / Him
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”
Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social Content strategy and content design for charities and arts orgs. Also: Brighton, plants, my dog, typos.
Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social Content strategy and management. Fascinated by good design. Offline path fan. UX author and course creator. Wrote Readability Guidelines wiki. Run #UCDFreelancersDirectory. Books, films, hikes, objects.©️Photo by me: Big Drewland, Kent cakeconsultancy.com
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social Director @publicdigitalhq, feminist, fond of swimming in cold water, alumni @IIPP
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
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
Benjy Stanton @benjystanton.co.uk Contract interaction and service designer. User-centred design in gov. Accessibility. Music fan. https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/ He/him
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
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent service design and digital transformation lead.
Mainly works in public sector.
Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
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
Mark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social A keen walker and fan of #greyhounds #dogs, #wildlife, and the countryside.
Craig J. Bass @craigjbass.bsky.social Strategy, tech & products to improve society. Principal Software Engineer @madetech.bsky.social (he/him/they/them)
Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social Interim Director of Policy, Citizens Advice. Policy stuff, data, graphs, that kind of thing. 
Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
garethr @garethr.bsky.social VP Product @snyksec. @openpolicyagent Conftest maintainer. Developer, designer, product. Open source geek. Devops Weekly. @gdsteam alum. he/him.
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
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.
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
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk