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Dr Charlie Harry Smith

@chsmith.bsky.social

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Digital ID at CO/DSIT Developed the first liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems (for a DPhil at @oiioxford.bsky.social) chsmith.co.uk

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

@leaypi.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to know Father Christmas has good taste in books. Can’t wait to dig into it!

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In it, I evaluate the British state’s successive national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy – for the first time.

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ll brave the rain, lightning and hail, he thought. It doesn’t look that bad!

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This morning, l'm delighted to announce we've pre-released the much-anticipated gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework on GOV.UK. Yes—just three days after my viva. It's been a busy few weeks! enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/25/a...

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So many more people—too many to list here—have supported me along the way, so please do read the full Acknowledgements below.

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

While 'Dr Smith' admittedly doesn't narrow things down an awful lot, at least there's now one more attribute for the matching algorithms... I still can't quite believe it but, on Friday, I passed my DPhil viva—with no corrections! 👨🏼‍🎓

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Submitted yesterday! Still can’t quite believe it…

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Some of you are putting me to shame!

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Got to the front, finally, to be told I’m a bot and lost my spot. Was worth a try! Where are those pesky #notabot credentials @dgwbirch.bsky.social has been promising for years?

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Finally, it was a great pleasure presenting a draft of the paper last year at The University of Bern. Georg Brun, Tanja Rechnitzer, Gregor Betz, Wibren van der Burg, and all the other attendees gave me fantastic feedback. I owe them, my mum, and Laurel Boxall my very deep thanks 🥰

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

These apps have features that uniquely support RE's non-linear, coherentist model for justification. Citation support! Bidirectional linking! Hashtags! And even Graph Visualisation features! Much better than struggling with pen and paper, Word docs, or reams of paper notes...

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