#GovTech is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 52 people shared 133 posts with it — around 4 a day. Activity is down 17% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 3 with 15 posts.

Posts with #GovTech

Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Morgan McSweeney (UK Labour's Dominic Cummings knock-off) is reportedly experimenting with 'synthetic voters' – "essentially fake focus groups of AI voters who can tell ministers more quickly and cheaply what the public thinks of policies" www.spectator.co.uk/artic…. #govtech #govcomms

McSweeney is exercised by the fact that the civil service has 7,000 communications officers, 4,500 of whom work for arm's-length bodies and quangos and frequently attack what the government is trying to do. Like Dominic Cummings, he is enthused by the possibilities of technology to speed change, such as AI in the NHS or gamers being hired by the Ministry of Defence to fly drones. He is now experimenting with 'synthetic voters' – essentially fake focus groups of AI voters who can tell ministers more quickly and cheaply what the public thinks of policies. In the last week he has been reading The Technological Republic by Alexander Karp, co-founder of the tech firm Palantir, which argues that the West’s technical dominance over the past century has been down to collaboration between governments and tech firms.

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Alt US Digital Service

@altusds.altgov.info

over 1 year ago

Once bad actors get your personal info, they can use it for fraud for years. Read our explainer on data security & how to protect yourself. ⬇️ 🔗 www.wethebuilders.org/pos…. #GovTech #TechForGood #SaveOurServices #altgov #altUSDS #linkinbio #CyberSecurity #DataProtection #PrivacyMatters

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲

@noneck.org

11 months ago

If you want to send your resume to the Mamdani team, their portal is now open. #civictech #PiTech #govtech www.transition2025.com/apply

www.transition2025.com

A New Era for NYC

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.

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Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

GOV.UK is now GOV·UK Brand Guidelines www.gov.uk/government/p... (152 MB PDF. Start as you mean to go on, GDS.) #govtech #govcomms #designwank

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Cyd Harrell

@cydharrell.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

#TechnologistsForThePublicGood (I'm a board member) & @civictechallies.bsky.social affirming our support for *everyone* in the #civictech #govtech field. I'll say more after work, but this is important to me

Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social

Sorry about the reposting, but it seems like the link is too long for BlueSky, so we are instead adding it in this thread. Thanks for your understanding! 🙏 🔗 www.civictechnologists.org/2025/01/comm...

www.civictechnologists.org

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Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

UK government* trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost www.theregister.com/2025/…. * Department for Business and Trade Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot: DBT evaluation report www.gov.uk/government/p... #govtech #AIpolicy #techpolicy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Participants were asked to record the time taken for each task with M365 Copilot compared to colleagues not involved in the trial. The assessment report adds: "Observed task sessions showed that M365 Copilot users produced summaries of reports and wrote emails faster and to a higher quality and accuracy than non-users. Time savings observed for writing emails were extremely small.

"However, M365 Copilot users completed Excel data analysis more slowly and to a worse quality and accuracy than non-users, conflicting time savings reported in the diary study for data analysis.

"PowerPoint slides [were] over 7 minutes faster on average, but to a worse quality and accuracy than non-users." This means corrective action was required.

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Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Digital by default but not for you. Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online www.theguardian.com/uk-ne…. #govtech

Olszewska arrived in the UK last September on a six-month visitor visa and shortly afterwards the application, containing all the correct information, was made for her to live permanently in Britain with her son and his wife. Until a few days ago the family had heard nothing from the Home Office although the application had been lodged in good time before the six-month visa expired.

But on 25 March the Home Office finally responded, informing the family: "Unfortunately your application is not valid and we are unable to accept it."

The rejection letter went on to say: "The required application process for someone applying as a family member of a relevant naturalised British citizen is to use the appropriate paper form. Your application was made online. There is no right of appeal in respect of an invalid application."

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Alt US Digital Service

@altusds.altgov.info

over 1 year ago

Yes, the Builders are the ones who will have to fix the mess they create. And we're all Builders, we're all Team 18F, and we're all getting ready to clean up after these children. ✊🏼 🔗 www.wethebuilders.org #altgov #altusds #govtech #techforgood @team18f.bsky.social

www.wethebuilders.org

We the builders

We find the truth and tell the truth

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲

@noneck.org

10 months ago

How should Mayor Mamdani make #govtech work for all New Yorkers? @beta.nyc is presenting 8 actionable #CivicTech ideas for the incoming administration. Also, we have gathered community recommendations at the bottom of our ideas. Read more on here. www.beta.nyc/2025/11/18/d...

www.beta.nyc

Dear Mayor-Elect Mamdani, here are 8 gov tech ideas for your first 100 days. - BetaNYC

Dear Mayor-Elect Mamdani, here are 8 gov tech ideas for your first 100 days!

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Mike Gifford, CPWA

@ox.ca

over 1 year ago

So this is a good time for #Governments in #Canada to start putting some distance between big, proprietary, American companies like Microsoft, IBM and Adobe, and start seriously shifting #GovTech to support #SmallBusiness & #OpenSource We can now follow the example of many European countries!

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Mike Gifford, CPWA

@ox.ca

over 1 year ago

For folks who couldn't make my first 2025 @fosdem.bsky.social talk Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration fosdem.org/2025/schedul... My slides are available here: docs.google.com/presentat…. #DigitalPublicGoods #FOSS #FOSDEM #OpenSource #GovTech #Procurement

fosdem.org

FOSDEM 2025 - Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration

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AndreasThinks

@andreasthinks.me

over 1 year ago

If you're interested in UK #govtech or #opendata, the Incubator for AI have just open-sourced this like of "Awesome UK Government Datasets" and are looking for contributors! github.com/i-dot-ai/awe...

github.com

GitHub - i-dot-ai/awesome-gov-datasets: A curated set of references to useful UK Government datasets

A curated set of references to useful UK Government datasets - GitHub - i-dot-ai/awesome-gov-datasets: A curated set of references to useful UK Government datasets

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