Data Bites | Data Service Standards

Amanda Smith, director at Public Digital, presented on Data Service Standards, including examples from several different cities in the Americas.

See Amanda’s slides.

Amanda Smith delivering her presentation

Tom Parry delivering his presentation at data bites

Digital sustainability in UK government

Tom Parry gave us an overview of efforts within the department and UK government more widely around digital sustainability.

Alex Blandford introduces his presentation in front of a screen that reads "warning: this work is anthropological in nature"

You can’t API your way out of politics

Alex Blandford shows his qualitative research into civic technologists, painting them as “radicalised nerds” trying to fix broken systems.

Laura Gilbert delivers her data bites presentation

Data and AI in the public sector

Laura Gilbert talked about setting up the government’s Incubator for AI (i.AI), and how tools like Caddy can actually make government and other organisations more human and bring them closer to people.

Ed Humpherson showing a line graph representing health inequalities in the UK

Beyond mechanistic thinking

Ed Humpherson, head of the Office for Statistics Regulation argues that the main barrier to innovation is the incurious belief that data are fixed objects produced by predictable, mechanistic systems.