Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Was so so good 😊 Thankyou @rufflemuffin.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Cate McLaurinPublic Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Our Head of Local Government, @madebycatem.bsky.social Cate McLaurin’s latest piece is in The MJ. In “Council culture: Why digital needs to be at the core", Cate argues that digital is everyone’s responsibility, not just the tech team's. 👉 www.themj.co.uk/council-culture-digital-corethemj.co.ukCouncil culture: Why digital needs to be at the coreEvery day, local councils face growing pressure to deliver more with less. But the councils that thrive aren't necessarily those with the biggest budgets, they're... 023
Reposted by Cate McLaurinNHS Providers (now known as The NHS Alliance) @nhsproviders.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Are you prepared for a #cyberattack? 🎙️Tune in to hear @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social interview @madebycatem.bsky.social about: 🟢 Her experience leading the response to a high-profile attack 🟢 How to build your #cyberresilience. ⏯️ bit.ly/446G4RZ @nhsconfed.org @publicdigital.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Cate McLaurinTamar Millen @tamarmillen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Finally made it to an Interesting in London. So so good. Replenished my people are bloody brilliant bucket. Which tbh has been empty for a while. #interesting2025 Here for agitating around another Sheffield/Northern edition. 081
Reposted by Cate McLaurintgt-comms.bsky.social @tgt-comms.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Can you please share the post below @janethughes.bsky.social @jenitennison.com @jereeve.bsky.social @johnlsheridan.bsky.social @jukes.ie @ldncdo.bsky.social @libdemdaisy.bsky.social @madebycatem.bsky.social @maltbyps.bsky.social @ndenysua.bsky.social @noursidawi.uk @ntouk.bsky.social 011
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Also LOTI (London office of technology and innovation) has done loads I think 120
Reposted by Cate McLaurinRoss Ferg @rossferg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We've opened a ticket ballot for GovCamp Scotland 2025 www.govcamp.scot/tickets. Please register and spread the word 🏴govcamp.scotTickets — GovCamp Scotland 056
Reposted by Cate McLaurinAnne Schuth @anneschuth.nl · 28/03/2025Ik schreef een stukje over mijn worsteling met het woord "innoveren" anneschuth.nl/2025/03/28/n...anneschuth.nlHet nieuwe normaalDeze week hebben we twee keer innovatiebudget (mede)aangevraagd voor projecten die raken aan Machine Law. Een proces dat me deed stilstaan bij een spanningsveld waar ik steeds meer mee worstel: de teg... 011
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Possibly the world’s most boring video. But also immensely exciting. @jamestplunkett.bsky.social finally! 130
Reposted by Cate McLaurinCareful Trouble @carefultrouble.bsky.social · 05/02/2025There’s still time to join us on 13th February for our AI 101 Impact Training. This session is aimed at people who have already started with or are interested in improving their AI literacy. lu.ma/lpet76u5 013
Reposted by Cate McLaurinAnne Schuth @anneschuth.nl · 25/01/2025New week, new experiments, new notes anneschuth.nl/2025/01/25/m... #weeknotesanneschuth.nlExperiments with Machine LawLast week, I wrote about joining Bureau Architecture and the energy I found there. This week, I want to share what I’ve been experimenting with: what I’ve been calling “Machine Law.” 061
Reposted by Cate McLaurinRoo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social · 18/01/2025A massive thank you to all the organisers, campmakers and volunteers who make UKGovCamp the best unconference event. #ukgc25 was a joyous and hopeful thing 1355
Reposted by Cate McLaurinDave 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
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Fabulous day @ukgovcamp.bsky.social Thankyou to all the organisers - you made it a brilliant day. ❤️ 091
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 19/02/2024So - Episode 6(ish) in this saga - I now have a heat geek appointment for a survey for early March. Persisting. . . 200
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 04/02/2024I’m staying in a house in Montpellier where it appears the owner *may* have left their cat in a separate part of the house behind a locked door. We have, of course, named it Schrödinger. 060
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 04/02/2024The books (and the adaptation) are excellent, too recommend 010
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Dropping back here with an update (painfully slow progress), but have managed to persuade Heat Geek that we do in fact have a garden. One small step forward. Nothing from Aira though. . . 100
Reposted by Cate McLaurinMatthew Cain @mcaino.bsky.social · 20/01/2024How might we build the capacity and resilience of institutions and civil society to respond to cyber attacks and so change the incentives around ransomware? 063
Reposted by Cate McLaurinPublic Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 20/01/2024No more Big IT. "We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here: www.ft.com/content/6b1f...ft.comNo more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many livesGovernments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters 14331
Reposted by Cate McLaurinCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/01/2024My best attempt at making sense of what has been happening at the British Library and more importantly how to learn from it ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-mat...ciaranmartin.substack.comOn the matter of the British Library cyber incidentThe most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital national institutions. 99151
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 19/01/2024Woke up to lovely snowy Dutch scenes this morning. Also had to unfreeze the bike lock with boiling water. 040
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 15/01/2024‘This yawning gap in knowledge and curiosity around technology remains true across senior levels of government, the civil service, parliament, and the judiciary’ . . . 010
Reposted by Cate McLaurinPublic Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Explanations behind the Horizon scandal cannot be reduced to a rogue supplier or an IT failure, but a set of organisational and systemic failures at the heart of government, writes our founding partner Mike Bracken. public.digital/2024/01/12/a...public.digitalAvoiding another Horizon scandal — Public Digital 077
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 07/01/2024Said hello to my fave Utrecht cafe today kushii.nl and thought of you @marxculture.bsky.social 140
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 07/01/2024I’ve tried to solve it by buying several pairs of the same socks. Not black, quite fancy but all the same. And yet, others appear and don’t match. 010
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 06/01/2024Ooh looks fabulous! I’d say Get in slowly not jump, start with a minute or so and build up! And tea/warm towel rather than shower 050
Reposted by Cate McLaurinChris Fleming @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social · 04/01/2024In the coming election year I think we'll hear lots of views on where the future of the NHS App lies. If there was one piece of advice I'd have it's "choose wisely". A seemingly simple could well require fundamental changes to infra, service design, and op models across thousands of orgs... 4112
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 01/01/2024Can I suggest having a look at wolf and badger? Supports small makers, stylish etc 000
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 01/01/2024We were in Caserta this summer - that palace and those gardens!!! 110
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 01/01/2024When will this be an Unbound project? Ready to invest. . . 010
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 31/12/2023I’ve got a whole, nerdy, slide deck about the Copenhagen bicycle strategy. It is a *chefs kiss* of public policy making. The art of the possible made real. And the value measured. 260
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 29/12/2023Ok - a new attempt this time with www.airahome.com/en-gb after reading this article www.theguardian.com/business/202.... Fingers crossed for a discussion in January!airahome.comClean Energy-Tech for Every Home | AiraExpensive gas-guzzling boiler or a free fresh air heat pump? It’s a no-brainer. Switch to clean, cheaper energy now with Aira 110
Reposted by Cate McLaurinFrancis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 15/12/2023My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...public.digitalReflections from UK Charity Camp 2023 — Public Digital 072
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Step one. Look at heat geek website, which says that we don’t have a garden. We do have a garden. Have emailed explaining this! 101
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 29/11/2023A Google doc would be great! Mine is 1) British Gas says no, not in my area 2) contact 2 different specialist firms neither reply 3) haven’t tried heat geek but will now! 000
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 29/11/2023💯 agree. Would love to compare notes - haven’t succeeded yet either! 110
Reposted by Cate McLaurinTom Loosemore @tomski.com · 27/11/2023This will be excellent. Sign up to either come in person (Clerkenwell) or Zoom. 031
Reposted by Cate McLaurinStamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Weeknotes S16 Ep8: writing is getting easier again weeknot.es/weeknotes-s1... 021
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 20/11/202350s even better. Promise. Even More fun, and even fewer fucks given all round. (Even with the feeling physically decrepit). 010
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social · 18/11/2023I can’t wait for this film to be made and tell the story of the impact of section 28. 👏👏👏such a powerful teaser 100
Reposted by Cate McLaurinSarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 18/11/202320 years ago, on the 18th November 2003, Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was removed. S28 'banned' local authorities and schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’ We’re pleased to release a snapshot teaser of the doc we’re developing on Section 28 vimeo.com/885958871?sh...vimeo.comDon't Say Gay Teaser (2023)On this day, 20 years ago, on the 18th November 2003, Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was removed. Section 28 had banned local authorities and schools… 253
