Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Microsoft products in big orgs remind me of Sammy Smith's pubs. There's eerily similar yet slightly crap equivalent for *everything* you can get in a normal pub... Like Microsoft Whiteboard or Taddy Lager. 020
Reposted by Dave RogersTom Loosemore @tomski.com · 24/07/2026Termsync.co.uk is most excellent, not least it's running on an open weight LLM hosted under the maker's desk.termsync.co.ukTermSync — School term dates, nailedSubscribe to your child's school term dates. Terms, half-terms, INSET days and holidays land in your calendar and stay up to date on their own. 0103
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026With the likely chopping up of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, I thought I'd explain the absolute technological faff that is machinery of government changes, through the medium of a pasta analogy. open.substack.com/pub/daverog/... 1126
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We often just make stuff up about the future, and present it as factual. Maybe a big political promise, an excitable analysis of the impact of emerging technology, or just a bad plan that won't deliver. False certainty is everywhere you look. daverog.substack.com/p/false-cert...daverog.substack.comFalse CertaintyFuture fiction presented as future fact 062
Reposted by Dave RogersDafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 14/05/2026There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...gov.ukAI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sectorGuidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery. 33321
Reposted by Dave RogersPublic Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Available today - our latest book “Shaping Technology For Transformation”: We've written a practical guide on building technological adaptability and resilience for leaders ready to strengthen their organisation's foundations. Get your copy here: public.digital/pd-technolog... 034
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This needs to be on the radar of any government service where AI is going to help users navigate the complexity and nuance - I'd say this is most them. Both how useful this will be, and the risks, but crucially starting to think of this as a whole new category of interaction. 120
Reposted by Dave RogersJames Darling @abscond.org · 07/01/2026Where does London begin and end? Some say you're in London if you're within the M25, others say London ends at Zone 2. These arbitrary lines are too simple. My Londometer uses data to create a much more complicated %. I'm sure this will settle things and not enrage anyone. london.abscond.orglondon.abscond.orgLondon 132110
Reposted by Dave Rogersdeedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This, in a nutshell. Unsure of who created for credit, but it’s spot on. 1166
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Technology forms layers in your organisation - over years, these can start to feel like layers of rock in a geological formation. This is slowing down everything you do. public.digital/pd-insights/...public.digitalThe deep digital geology that’s slowing your company down — Public Digital 030
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Interesting looking sessions at the next @transformgovtalks.bsky.social see you there if you're coming too 👋 040
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 12/09/2025This team was brilliant today. The time they gave to explain their mission and personal stories was generous, and incredibly insightful. Go @adhdpathfinding.org.uk 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 052
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 09/09/2025We're looking forward to having you all at @publicdigital.bsky.social and having an opportunity to support your mission 🙌🏻 052
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Using LLMs for software development can't solve the problem of technical debt, but it feels like it's changing the game share.google/4XDOSKp1OQTs... but I do wonder if it can outpace the ability, with the same technology, to create new technical debt at greater speedshare.googleHow the GitHub billing team uses the coding agent in GitHub Copilot to continuously burn down technical debtTech debt is a big problem that no one has time to solve. GitHub Copilot coding agent can help. 000
Reposted by Dave RogersTom Loosemore @tomski.com · 07/04/2025On the myth that efficiency should be the primary goal of government transformation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/07/d...foreignpolicy.comEfficiency Isn’t EverythingSuccessful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws. 093
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 25/03/2025On Friday I'm speaking on a panel at the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies's event Diplomacy in the Digital Age commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... exploring the state of government technology, and the impact this has on this critical domain.commonwealth.sas.ac.ukDiplomacy in the Digital AgeThe Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies have organised a high-level, invite-only dialogue on Diplomacy in the Digital Age on 28 March 2025. 010
Reposted by Dave RogersNexer_Digital @nexerdigital.com · 18/03/2025#CampDigital - Meet our speakers! We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳 Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9 056
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Someone really needs to have a word with whoever is putting up all this 'red tape' in the first place 🙄 120
Reposted by Dave RogersRichard Pope @richardpope.org · 07/02/2025I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses. 416727
Reposted by Dave RogersStefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · 27/01/2025I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.privatetactician.comOn not going to AuschwitzIt is thirty years since I didn’t go to Auschwitz. The memory of not going has never left me. In 1985, I was living in Kraków, just 40 miles on the slow stopping train from Oświęcim. I could … 27827
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 18/01/2025That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗 0262
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 15/01/2025See you Saturday if you're off to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we've got a few of us coming from @publicdigital.bsky.social, we're sponsoring again 🙌🏻 Come and say hi to us, we'll be hanging out near our banner in the marketplace and generally milling around and pitching some sessions. 👋🏻 171
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I've written this about trust between leaders and teams, and why there's often a trap you can fall into. Don't trust your team? Don't trust your leadership? Might be worth a read... public.digital/pd-insights/...public.digitalThe Trust Trap: How Leaders and Teams Can Rebuild Trustpublic digitalpublic digitalStruggling with trust issues at work? Learn how leaders and teams can escape the Trust Trap and rebuild trust for a healthier, more productive workplace culture. 076
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 02/01/2025The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCS... (my talk from last November at @aifortherestofus.live)youtube.comThe impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! | Dave RogersYouTube video by AI for the rest of us 043
Reposted by Dave RogersChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26/12/2024the entire "AGI when?" debate is so funny to me because it's a cult dreamed up by people who seem to lack even the vaguest sense of how actual cognition works, foisted on a public that shouldn't have bought the premise in the first place, leading to a debate that's mostly beside the point 2377
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Wondered what 'test and learn' means? I've written this to unpack and explain it public.digital/pd-insights/...public.digitalJust what is 'Test and Learn'?public digitalpublic digitalA blog explaining the concept of Test and Learn in organisational change 22216
Reposted by Dave RogersMatt Kane @mk.gg · 10/12/2024The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything: • @houseofcommons.parliament.uk • @houseoflords.parliament.uk • @ukparliament.parliament.uk • @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk 7732231133
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I've been waiting over 10 years for a government minister to make a speech like this: www.gov.uk/government/s... 2123
Reposted by Dave RogersDafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 04/12/2024My colleague @robmiller31.bsky.social has written this blog post about how organisations should be thinking about cyber security. There's no such thing as 'safe', only 'safer'. public.digital/pd-insights/...public.digitalSafe or safer? How to think about cyber risk. — Public Digitalpublic digitalpublic digital 043
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 28/11/2024It's weird how government services can seem to disappear inside departmental bureaucracies. Service strategies? Service budgets? Service leaders? Nope. You're more likely to find things like projects, programmes, policy teams, operations teams, digital units, design units, security units. 182
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024'Business as usual' vs 'change' is often a false binary, leading to split money, split leadership, and split operating models. Problem is 'business as usual' is a bad label for continuous change. So it's just two areas of change to the same thing, competing and misaligning. 094
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 18/03/2024It's frustratingly common for digital teams, particularly those with infrastructure skills, to be expected to work out of hours, but not get paid for it - with a damaging impact on people's non working lives. "It's not affordable" isn't a reasonable excuse. 120
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 28/02/2024Don't fall into the truth gap! Inspire people with truthful narratives instead. I've written about how leaders in organisations should tell stories (and by stories, I mean strategies, business cases, annual plans, marketing etc etc) public.digital/2024/02/27/w... 186
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 21/02/2024These are a powerful set of ideas, and probably the simplest and clearest way of expressing them I've seen - probably very familiar to some, but remain new and radical to most. 000
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Data isn't really an asset. Just having it creates cost, and risk. Doing something useful with it is hard. It's better to think of data as a necessary thing, in pursuit of something valuable, like a service. 160
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 17/01/2024I've written about user centred IT: why 'best practice' isn't good enough in the domain of Information Technology public.digital/2024/01/17/u... 1102
Reposted by Dave RogersAmanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Dig out your sequins & Christmas jumpers ... our next @publicdigital.bsky.social PD Sessions is going to be a fun-filled, festive edition! @matildemigliorero.bsky.social & I will be hosting an *awesome* panel to chat about our cities, data & digital. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/publi...tickettailor.comJoin the guestlist – PD Sessions: All I want for Christmas: Our wishlist for cities, digital & dat...PD Sessions: All I want for Christmas: Our wishlist for cities, digital & data – Old Sessions House, Tue 5 Dec 2023 - Join us for an end-of-year celebration and fun, festive conversations about our ... 076
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 26/09/2023At Public Digital, we recently ran an event on digital and democracy: fascinating to see how power, tradition, technology and user centricity work alongside each other. public.digital/2023/09/22/d... 020
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Technology: don't leverage, exploit, unlock or harness it. Just use it, and see it if works. 010
