Category Archives: transparency

We need to talk about Sensyne…

If your child is being treated by Great Ormond Street, you’d be forgiven for having missed the announcement by press release a couple of weeks ago that GOSH has just signed a deal with an AI (‘Artificial Intelligence’) company called … Continue reading

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Identity and Immunity

Technology can be better than the failing app solutionism; the question is whether we will be, or whether following the worst of the tech world will leave us in the database state. Larry Brilliant is the American epidemiologist who, working … Continue reading

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What does Government think it knows about you?

EU citizens, and others, are rightly concerned about the sources of data that Her Majesty’s Government will use to do data-matching as it decides who has residency, and who does not. In general, data quality across Government is terrible. Indeed, … Continue reading

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May the Fourth be with you!

It’s Local Election day today where I live, maybe where you live too. What you may not know is the added significance of this and future local elections to the provision of NHS and care services in your area. To … Continue reading

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What does a Citizen’s View of Government look like?

Rather than a “single Government Department” that does whatever it wishes, the alternative is to operate a citizen’s view of Government: a view which doesn’t assume the citizen has to learn how all of Government works – but for which, … Continue reading

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