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Alice Goldman

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Government digital, public policy design and a one-woman crusade to stop AI engines being given female names

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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Cheaper by the 24
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Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Check out the full piece here: Are you an Accidental Design Saboteur? (According to the CIA) 👉 medium.com/the-design-c...
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Are You an Accidental Design Saboteur? (According to the CIA)
As a design leadership coach, I work with a lot of incredibly thoughtful designers. They care deeply about their craft. They want to…
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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · 06/04/2025
My latest piece explores the practical applications and genuine risks of AI in trauma support. Because ultimately, the measure of trauma-informed services isn't who or what provides them. It's whether they help survivors recover. #AIEthics #TraumaInformedDesign #DigitalTransformation #VictimSupport
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AI therapy chatbots: what they mean for trauma-informed services
Why the Dartmouth “Therabot” trial should make us rethink how we support victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse and other trauma
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 31/03/2025
A special edition of my newsletter focused on the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team vacancies (and principles). @karakane-kk.bsky.social newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - Test/Learn/Grow
This is a special edition supporting the Cabinet Office's Test, Learn and Grow team with their recruitment campaign. I have nothing to do with the team in any capacity and nobody asked me to do it but...
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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
GDS is hiring a senior content designer to work on the Service Standard and Service Manual. £56,070 - £70,219 Deadline end of Wednesday. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #govdesign
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Anyone pledging that government digital services should be as good as the private sector should know that I've spent less than 5 mins successfully ordering a new driving licence and so far about 15 trying and failing to update my travel insurance policy
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Loads of food for thought in this article about political 'delivery' and political narrative, including the chronically under-discussed issue of whether people feel basically happy democracyjournal.org/arguments/th...
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The Death of “Deliverism”
Economic policy success isn't enough. We need a more holistic approach to addressing people’s fears and anxieties.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?
The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤔 The 🇩🇰 government asked us: how can democratic control over tech giants be strengthened? We - the government's expert group on tech giants - outline 7️⃣ principles and a set of guidelines for tackling economic, democratic, and security vulnerabilities:
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Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
At GDS for launch of the digital government blueprint. Will try and live post on this thread 🧵
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I thought about that a lot @allconsuming.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In 2024, I thought a lot about TikTok tourism www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/tiktok-...
image text says: there are people who only want to see things so they can be seen seeing things. ithoughtabouttthatalot.com
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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Went to the speech this morning. A few thoughts. TL;DR - I thought it was really good, but of course lots of tricky challenges to work through. 🧵
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Prateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Made this starter pack of #OneTeamGov people, working together to radically reform the public sector through practical action. go.bsky.app/32t35D4 Who else is here making public service better?
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨I’m hiring! Help me spread the news! Have you ever slipped your driver’s licence into your phone case and thought, ‘there must be a better way?’ Lost your passport on a night out? Do topics like AI deepfakes, biometrics, wallets, age verification and inclusion interest you?
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Jim McMahon MP @jimmcmahon.co.uk · 05/12/2024
👏 A huge Thank You to local government workers on @unison.org.uk #ChampionsDay! 👏 Over a million workers, delivering 800 services in every community. 👏 They are the best of public service and rooted in the communities they serve. Nominate ⏩ unsn.uk/champions
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📢 Opinions please! What do we call it in #servicedesign when we create services that solve a whole problem for users? The action of taking what's been set up separately and collecting it all into a new service that doesn't finish by sending you elsewhere. I dislike "integrated", so corporate!
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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 22/11/2024
We need more digital leaders in local government starting their new jobs in this kind of way: luton.localgov.blog/2024/11/22/a...
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Atika’s update #1
Hi, I’m Atika and I have just started at Luton Council as the Director of Digital, Data and Technology. Being local to Luton, it’s a role I am passionately ambitious about. As it’s my first week I wan...
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Those are indeed gaps. So this sounds good.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Possibly one for the wall of motivational postits
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Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
These are fun but also useful: 10 strong suggestions for surviving the age of misinformation experimentalliving.substack.com/p/ten-strong...
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Ten Strong Suggestions for Surviving the Age of Misinformation
My original title for this post was….
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
App updates have to be one of the strangest concepts. Imagine if your street layout, car controls or kitchen organisation updated itself every week or so. Chaos and danger.
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
The best new technologies have bonus extra uses their creators didn't anticipate but eventually you can't live without. For me, it's the laptop-tray
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Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by · 22/10/2024
I missed that last month the OECD adopted a new Recommendation on Human-Centred Public Administrative Services
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OECD Legal Instruments
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Interesting read with some relevance for how we justify investment in digital transformation
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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
A vision for public digital work. Do we need a new one? And if so, what is it? A few reflections. medium.com/@jamestplunk...
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A vision for public digital work
Humanising the digital dimension
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Nhs, school apps, utilities, life admin. Everyone is talking about being frustrated by bad experiences. Is there a way we can record the sheer quantity of minutes we waste? Does anyone want to start a thing?
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #8,579,358! For posterity
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #8,579,358, Alice Goldman ‪@alicegoldman.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 3, 2024"
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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Screenshot of the page on LinkedIn for generative ai. It reads:
Data for Generative AI Improvement
Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative AI models that create content?

Use my data for training content creation AI models


This setting controls the training of generative AI models used to create content. When this setting is on LinkedIn and its affiliates may use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn for that purpose. Learn more.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
This is a masterful review, full of @willdunn.bsky.social's terrific dry wit:
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How Elon Musk killed Twitter
His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Good price of research exploring how young people feel about our society and their future equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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Reconstructing the Social Contract - Equality Trust
Over the last six months we have been working with a group of young people to co-produce a project which explores ‘Reconstructing the Social Contract’. The idea of a social contract between the govern...
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Hurrah, I've had time to start @richardpope.org's Platformland. Going to share some of my thoughts in thread as I go
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
It's a little old but if you would enjoy an upbeat hour where a woman speaks about her dream and how she's going to run the show when she gets there, this is a great listen. Anyone recommend any other shows that profile women's careers? open.spotify.com/episode/1It1...
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76. Rachel Reeves: Britain’s next Chancellor?
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
This is great to see! Building things for prisoners that support rehabilitation mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/06/l...
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Launchpad Home is Live!
How the Ministry of Justice is transforming the justice system using digital services and technology: news, updates and comment.
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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 05/09/2024
The venerable @computerweekly.bsky.social have some extracts from my book: www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Buil...
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Building the next generation of digital public services | Computer ...
For the first time, the systematic elimination of administrative burden across society is within reach. If we choose to follow this path, it will become the expectation that public services automat...
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Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Free tea and a sense of identity makes for a great place to work imo
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