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Lisa Allen
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Work in data, love the environment (especially finding mushrooms) Interested in tech, open data, open source || Views are mine only
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gavinfreeguard.bsky.social
🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨

- Tues 18 Nov, 530 for 6pm
- Online & SW1
- Welsh Govt on StatsWales reimagined
- Office for Statistics Regulation on the new Code of Practice
- GLA on the Data for London Library
- ONS on Census 2031 topic consultation and user insight

Join us! public.digital/events/data-...
A photo from Data Bites 50 in November 2024, courtesy of Paul Clarke. Backs of audience heads are visible. On the right of the image, I'm sat at the front with a corner of screen visible. On the left is the iconic Data Bites countdown clock, displaying 04:34
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Thanks @jacattell.bsky.social for sharing this video with me m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8j... - love this @jukes.ie
Matt Jukes: The power, peril and privilege of working in the open
YouTube video by Nexer Digital
m.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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wavesblog.bsky.social
Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty @nextcloud.bsky.social nextcloud.com/blog/austria... ditching my US cloud provider too!
Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty - Nextcloud
Discover why the Austrian Ministry of Economy trusts Nextcloud for secure and digitally sovereign collaboration and data management.
nextcloud.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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benproctor.co.uk
Just in case, for some reason, you are not already signed up to the snappily titled Nonprofit data jobs newsletter... you can view this week's here buttondown.com/likeaword/ar... (and sign up to have it emailed to you in the future)
Nonprofit data jobs 2025-05-18
Featuring jobs with Birdlife International, AgeUK, Impetus, Wellcome Trust and Natural Resources Wales
buttondown.com
May 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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johnnyryan.bsky.social
Big news this evening

This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...
www.iccl.ie
May 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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connectedbydata.org
🗣️ Our next Community of Practice speakers are announced! Julian from @opendatamcr.bsky.social on developing principles for putting residents at the heart of how automated decision making is used; and Louise from GDS.

💻 Zoom
🗓️ Wed 14, 2-3pm GMT
🎟️ Free, register: connectedbydata.org/events/2025...
Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 2pm we will hold the eight meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.
connectedbydata.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Looking for a summer internship?
@openuk has a *paid* internship from May-August, for a UK-based intern interested in digital and policy.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrocktech_looking-for-a-summer-internship-openuk-activity-7326630298652192768-UWm-

Please share 😃
OpenUK
We are the UK organisation for Open Technology #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #opensource https://openuk.uk/ Join our mailing list at https://openuk.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9d6308e45152bb731122903de&id=34b8a50cce
hachyderm.io
May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Fantastic to attend Women in Data #WID Still amazes me that #data is not routinely split by gender resulting in harms for everyone.
March 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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owenboswarva.bsky.social
Big job leading the UK Government's "mission to better use its data as part of the National Data Strategy":

Deputy Director, Data Strategy at the Government Digital Service www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

(If you think GDS is the right place to do that.)

#datastrategy #govtech
March 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Amazing to publish our TPR data strategy today #data #Savers #Pensions

www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...
TPR data strategy:  Transforming our data for better saver outcomes
The Pensions Regulator is the regulator of work-based pension schemes in the UK
www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
March 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Attended an excellent event tonight hosted by startupcoalition.io on Making Open Finance happen. #data #open
Startup Coalition
We act as a conduit between the startup ecosystem and Westminster, providing translation back-and-forth to accelerate and improve startup-specific policy.
startupcoalition.io
February 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Very useful summary of how the fully open source Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 is beating OpenAI at its own game venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
venturebeat.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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imogen-parker.bsky.social
The UK AI Opportunity Plan and Gov's response is now live...

There's lots to comb through, but a few first thoughts below 🧵(1/8).

www.gov.uk/government/p... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
AI Opportunities Action Plan: government response
Government response to recommendations set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan and the steps it will take to implement them.
www.gov.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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edent.tel
#OpenSource Nerds Assemble!

The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*.

sessionize.com/state-of-ope...

State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM.

We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open technology.
stateofopencon.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:03 AM
lisaallen.bsky.social
📣Job klaxon📣 Another brilliant job in my team. This one is to lead our Data Quality & Requirements team.

Come join us!
Check out this job at The Pensions Regulator: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

#data #jobs
www.linkedin.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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gavinfreeguard.bsky.social
Happy Data (Use and Access) Bill Day to all who celebrate!

It’s Second Reading in the Lords today – the first chance for peers to debate the detail of the Bill

Bill docs from:
- Parliament bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825
- Government www.gov.uk/government/c...
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
Current version of Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] with latest news, sponsors, and progress through Houses
bills.parliament.uk
November 19, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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owenboswarva.bsky.social
OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... (US)

Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. – Order on Motion to Dismiss www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290...

#genAI #IPlaw #AIlaw #techlaw
The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners over the data used to train their generative AI systems. A lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in December was the first from a media outlet. Unlike similar lawsuits, Raw Story and AlterNet's complaint accused OpenAI of unlawfully removing their articles' copyright management information (CMI) without arguing that it infringed their copyrights. McMahon agreed with OpenAI that the claims should be dismissed. "Let us be clear about what is really at stake here," McMahon said. "The alleged injury for which Plaintiffs truly seek redress is not the exclusion of CMI" but the "use of Plaintiffs' articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation."
November 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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connectedbydata.org
#GenerativeAI is impacting on workers now, and increasingly.

Our recent Connected Conversations with provocations from @jenitennison.com, Janis Wong, Aparna Surendra and Adio Dinika, discussed #WorkerRights in relation to #data and #AI.

connectedbydata.org/events/2024-...
Connected Conversation: Generative AI and Worker Rights
Across industries, companies are seeking to exploit content generated by their workers past and present to create customised generative AI. The same pattern is appearing across journalism, education, ...
connectedbydata.org
October 31, 2024 at 9:15 AM
lisaallen.bsky.social
At The Pensions Regulator, we’ve published our DDaT Strategy. Take a look 👀 #DDAT #data #digital #tech #opendata
www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/media-hub...
Pensions industry urged to unlock power of digital, data and technology for savers
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is using digital, data and technology to transform itself and industry in a bid to protect savers and drive innovation.
www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
October 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Fascinating discussion on #PoliticsLive today about the role of #Data and #Analytics in shaping the NHS. Great to hear conversations on data and analytics becoming mainstream
October 21, 2024 at 11:39 AM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Looking forward to this event with Data Orchard and seeing what has changed. #data #maturity www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/launc...
Launch: State of the Sector Data Maturity Report 2024 — Data Orchard
Join us for first sight of this year's State of the Sector report and be first to understand how data maturity across sectors is changing.
www.dataorchard.org.uk
October 20, 2024 at 12:28 PM
lisaallen.bsky.social
Kicking off at the IRM Data, AI and Analytics conferences. We’re celebrating 21 years of DAMA UK today too 😊#DAIA24 #data #damauk
October 15, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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julianlstar.bsky.social
📣Calling all energy and data people📣
⚡Open Data Manchester is running an Electricity Data Dive with Electricity North West and Kraken on 5th November. If you're interested in the data behind our electricity generation, supply and usage, this is for you 👉 bit.ly/ODM-SPARK
View from the bottom of an electricity pylon looking up to the apex and showing the symmetrical structure of beams and cross braces
October 7, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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jenitennison.com
Trying to pull all/most of the responses to this together, I've put together some of my own reflections on the big questions around the "digital centre" here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/10...
October 7, 2024 at 7:04 AM