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PD Newsletter #93: The Paris AI Action Summit; Uk's new digital centre for government

Closer to home, this month has been defined by resets. In January we supported the launch of the UK’s new digital centre for government, and this week our founder Mike Bracken, one of President Macron’s Global Tech Thinkers, attended the AI Action Summit in Paris, which saw AI repositioned as a public asset. Read on for his insights.

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PD Newsletter #13: AI competence, Internet-era ways of working and design at scale

Welcome to the 13th edition of the Public Digital newsletter. I'm @egawen on Twitter. This week, we've published a to-do list for putting internet-era ways of working into action. We'd love to know what you think.

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PD Newsletter #2: Planes, automobiles, cash for AI and iterative delivery done well

Welcome to Public Digital’s newsletter #2. We're always interested to hear about teams delivering great work; send ideas or feedback by email or to @egawen on Twitter.

Data Bites

Liverpool City Region Residents' Assembly

Emily from the University of Liverpool shared insights from a recent Residents’ Assembly led by Liverpool’s Civic Data Cooperative where locals came together to explore what trustworthy, beneficial data and AI innovation should look like.

Duncan Brown shows a graph on screen with the results of a survey showing that a majority of people feel that AI will impact them either negatively or neutrally.

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Data and AI Federation

Duncan Brown, head of software engineering at the Incubator for AI (i.AI), explored what a federated approach to data sharing, access and use might look like

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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.

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Local AI, done right

Tom Smith makes the case that while AI is not magic. It requires thoughtful implementation, trusted infrastructure, and yes, good data – but also policy, procurement power, and plenty of collaboration.

A speaker in a room with people where some people have their hands up requesting a question

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Helen, an AI chatbot at St. Helens

Ste Sharples at St Helens Council introduced us to their AI chatbot, Helen. This is designed as a ‘single front door’ for people to ask questions about all council services.

A human-centred approach to AI

At Public Digital, we take a human-centred approach to technology. We use the best practices of the internet era to steer bold, long-lasting change in organisations.