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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🧠 Why London's Data for London Library matters for urban #AI Better data access = better data services & AI systems = better public services As Europe's largest tech hub, London is building infrastructure for responsible AI that serves all 9 million Londoners 3/5

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📊 Data delivers real change for Londoners The new Data for London Library builds on 15 years of impact: 🫁 Air quality alerts 🏠 NetZero programmes 🤝 Rough sleeping insights 🚪 house-building and planning When data is discoverable, services improve #innovation 2/5

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🌍 6/7 From Imperial College's AI healthcare regulation to community-led projects tackling local challenges, plus global contributors. Events designed for seasoned data scientists AND curious citizens alike.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

💡5/7 LDW's mission: fostering collaboration between residents, organizations, community groups, and public institutions that make London great. The most effective data solutions require public support through genuine community engagement.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🎮 4/7 Build arcade games using ChatGPT with teenagers, learn how electrical signals from our bodies become health data, or join the Data Leaders Summit where government meets citizen data networks. Something for everyone!

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🌱 3/7 Walk through Olympic Park exploring urban transformation data, help design citizen science tools in Finsbury Park, or step into a Civic Phone Booth helping offline citizens stay engaged...

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🎭 2/7 Where else can you... Learn live coding at an Algorave (music meets mathematics!), watch "Humans in the Loop" - a musical about AI written by actual humans, or create memes about AI's environmental impact? Only at #LondonDataWeek! londondataweek.org

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚀 London Data Week is HERE July 7-13 sees London transform into a data playground where data becomes accessible, creative and community-centered. This isn't your typical tech conference, @london.gov.uk and Alan Turing Inst have bootstrapped over 50+ inspiring community-led events 🧵1/7

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

With London's incredible density delivering new infrastructure projects can be the wicked-est of wicked problems. We've built the Infrastructure Mapping Application to help speed up projects and reduce costs. Read on: data.london.gov.uk/blog/data-as...

"A set of six impact metrics, each represented by an icon and a corresponding value. The first metric, represented by a calendar icon, shows 'Collaborative Days Saved' as 1,323. The second, with a piggy bank icon, indicates 'Costs Saved by Collaborators' at £2.16 million. The third, shown with a house icon, represents 'Increase in Resident Wellbeing' valued at £7.23 million. The fourth, with a bus icon, measures 'Journey Time Saved' at 267,000 hours, equating to £2.02 million. The fifth, another piggy bank icon, denotes 'Business Losses Avoided' at £1.15 million. The final metric, represented by a green leaf icon, shows 'Carbon Saved: Reduced Trips' at 66 tonnes of CO₂.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Nearly two-thirds of London’s CO2 emissions come from buildings, with domestic buildings account for 32% of emissions. Identifying which buildings would benefit from retrofit is tricky, but luckily machine learning can help. Enter the London Building Stock Model 2: data.london.gov.uk/blog/london-...

A screenshot from the London Building Stock Model. The screenshow shots a map of properties across London split by tenure type.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

💪 4/6 We've delivered Europe's largest citywide digital inclusion programme - Get Online London has helped 75k+ households access devices, free mobile connectivity & digital skills training!

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📈 Safestats enables community safety staff to spot crime patterns, especially for underreported issues. This data drives #publichealth prevention strategies, not just enforcement and shapes London's Police & Crime Plan, informs local strategies & helps allocate resources where needed most 4/4

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🔍 Another behind-the-scenes (& longest-running) #city data service in #London is the @london.gov.uk Safestats platform, which brings together #crime #data from police, ambulance, fire brigade & NHS - creating a comprehensive view of community safety across the city 🧵 1/4

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

4/5 🏘️ LAND4LDN's Land Supply Manager creates a big picture of London's development potential by weaving together multiple data streams: live planning data, borough allocations, approved site submissions, & constraint mapping - showing where and how London can grow

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

3/5 🔄 Two core modules power LAND4LND - the Call for Sites Manager submission service enables developers/landowners/members of the public to plot sites & submit them for consideration along with supporting information, these are then are pulled through directly into the LAND4LDN platform.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

1/5 One of London's data strengths is in urban/city planning: so, another behind-the-scenes city #data service focuses on where we can build new #housing in #London - it's called LAND4LDN and replaces fixed-point-in-time snapshots with much more useful real-time feeds 🧵

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

4/4 This is transforming how London grows. The data feeds directly into #city #infrastructure planning, #housing strategies & demographic forecasting. There are a bunch of data services which have spun off from this, like: identifying available land, understanding high street economies [more soon]

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

3/4 Because of the Datahub we can now see, in one place: 📋 Live planning applications 💻 Connected council systems 🏗️ Starts/completions updates This is all #opendata: whether you're a developer, researcher or just curious about your neighbourhood, anyone can access this data #cities

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

5/6 ✨ The result? GoogleMaps now shows you: 🤫 Quieter, low-traffic streets 🚚 Detailed breakdowns of cycle lanes vs roads 🧊 #3D preview of your whole route 🗺️ #Real-time traffic updates These changes improve more than 60 million cycling journeys across London and are available globally for adoption

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

2/6 🤔 Problem statement: navigation apps pretty much catered for #cars not #cyclists. In effect: cyclists were being directed to busy, high-traffic routes & there wasn't a way to easily choose a journey using the city's 340 km of cycleways either!

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Now 166 datasets helping utilities, transport & local authorities work #smarter together and 5 APIs established with key data providers. The IMA has become London's central hub for infrastructure planning with 35 major infrastructure projects already delivered together, 94 more in the pipeline...

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

More behind-the-scenes #London #smartcity #data #innovation: Tired of repeated roadworks on the same street? 50+ utilities & councils now share data to coordinate infrastructure digs across city thru the Infrastructure Mapping Application. Result? Less disruption & better future planning #growth 🧵

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🔍 BEFORE: Working on assumptions & hunches based on single datasets. AFTER: Hard data revealing who needs help & why. By connecting Housing Options data with rough sleeping insights, we're busting myths & building solutions that work better.

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🔄 Together with partners like LOTI, London Councils & Faculty AI and Beam we brought together homelessness data from CHAIN, In-Form provider systems, and borough H-CLIC returns into one powerful strategic tool: breaking down data silos to help support our most vulnerable residents

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Another example of how #data is working behind-the-scenes to improve Londoners' lives. We want to make #roughsleeping rare, brief and non-recurrent in #London but crucial data has been held across many orgs in the city. So we set about changing this with a new tool, here's how🧵

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🏗️ Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how London government is using city #data to serve citizens better. With no national service available, we built a dashboard combining open & secure data to help planners put #ElectricVehicles #EV chargers where needed most. A #LocalGov🧵...

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We can't aspire to be a smarter city, or a true leader in #AI unless we also ensure there is proper digital inclusion - so it was great to be honoured by peers who see it the same way in Barcelona earlier this month. Find out more here loti.london/get-online-l...

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

For three years in a row, we've also brought together digital inclusion practitioners from councils, community groups, organisations like Age UK London & the private sector so we can share what works, solve common problems & design solutions to serve citizens better

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thousands of SIMs donated by telcos to the Data Bank are distributed through hundreds community hubs. Basic digital skills are taught using Learn My Way: over 10k Londoners have taken the programme, in addition to the 30k+ learning at their local college funded by City Hall

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Transport for London also helps schools across the capital save money by donating more than 800 laptops, iPads and computers to help children learn. The programme has so far helped 38 London schools - like Clockhouse Primary School in Romford

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We worked with councils & public bodies like the Met Police to refurbish 5k end-of-business life laptops to distribute to those in need. This is also good for the environment because it diverts these laptops from landfill, saving 7m tonnes of CO2e emissions

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So City Hall teamed up with LOTI and Good Things Foundation to test a wrap-around offer here in London (to be be scaled nationally) to support existing initiatives & help people get access to the skills, SIM cards or device they need to get online. And we've made a difference!

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

During the pandemic we knew of many #digitalinclusion projects across the city - run from libraries/council services, community groups or via corporate giving. But we saw they often only dealt with aspects of exclusion, so what if we designed inclusion as a citywide service?

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Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Get Online London, funded by the Mayor of London, is helping tens of thousands of Londoners access the internet. Last week GOL won Barcelona Smart City Expo award for citywide access to digital skills, connectivity & devices. Our approach to #digitalinclusion works like this🧵

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