Data Dilemmas - how Open Policy Making can help us use data ethically

...in two stages. The first is related to their opinion about the problem data science is trying to solve. Therefore we need to engage with people through the wider lens...
...in two stages. The first is related to their opinion about the problem data science is trying to solve. Therefore we need to engage with people through the wider lens...
I’m off to speak at Open Data Manchester this evening about both how open data and open working can make better policy. I thought I’d share some of the tools...
...person we work with or user we talk to teaches us something new. We’re keeping hooked into fresh thinking and learning by collaborating with students in other universities. The RCA...
...specific to the topic, e.g. ‘things that will encourage people to travel by train’ or ‘things that will discourage people to travel by train’. Or you could set some more...
...work passport, which helps the user to reduce the amount of times they must tell their story to each service provider, employer signposting of the service which will help support...
The Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project is part of a Government Office for Science initiative to understand the opportunities and challenges of an ageing population. The project has...
...the opposite? What would you do in 2040? Oh... hang on. These are hypothetical change cards that Policy Lab usually uses in quickfire brainstorming rounds to generate loads of -...
...- or prototypes - are in the policy world, and have been trying out sketches, paper prototypes and testing things out in the field. People are experimenting and interest is...
...exist in a future world, and not hoaxing people into thinking they exist now. For the GO-Science workshop in Swansea last week, the research and design co-operative - Strange Telemetry...
...showing them examples of other important looking documents. We refined their ideas a bit and now have three prototype letters that we want to test with them so that HMRC...
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