Kirsty Innes
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Director, Tech Policy @LabourTogether . Previously @InstituteGC , @HMTreasury , @UKinFrance . She/her. Views my own, obvs
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First day as Director of Technology Policy
@LabourTogether
today! 🥳
Can't wait to get stuck in.
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If you got a policy tattoo, what would it be? Mine would be CONFRONT THE TRADE-OFFS, in block letters, somewhere I can point to it frequently
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One month in to my new tech policy job, and women have been in the majority in every single meeting so far 🍾
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Got schooled in parenting. Always taken pride in the dramatic vigour I put into the bedtime story and felt a bit sorry for my less-expressive husband. Last night he explained HE MAKES IT BORING ON PURPOSE AND THAT'S HOW HE GETS THEM DOWN 30 MINUTES EARLIER 🤦🤦🤦
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We need a new word to express the little pang of loss felt when you go to take a sip of your tea, only to realise that the cup is already empty
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Wrong decision. We know that large and crowded environments increase the spread of the virus. It is still present and causing serious illness and death; health passes are available and relatively straightforwards to implement.
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We're hiring! I'm looking for an excellent Tech Policy Advisor to join my team. If you've got 2+ years' experience in policy, tech or a related discipline, plus outstanding analysis and communication skills then send a CV and covering letter to info
@labourtogether
.co.uk
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📚Inspired by the excellent
@AdaLovelaceInst
, my team is holding a reading week this week. Please let us have your recommendations for books/papers/articles in and around the tech and government sphere, whether new or classic pieces 🙂
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Just leaving thus here...
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I honestly don't know why all offices don't just organise themselves by temperature. You could have an arctic, a temperate and a tropical zone. You'd mingle with people outside your immediate circle, and never have to argue about opening the window again
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So how could AI improve government and public services? Some thoughts 🧵:
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🤩🎒🏫🧑🎓Big day for the
@InstituteGC
Digital Government team today
For the past 6 months we have been asking: what would it take to give everyone in the world access to great education? Today we're publishing the (first) fruits of our research.
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#EducationFutures
insights:
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Having a National Data Strategy is a bit like having a National Money Strategy. "People, and business, and govts, should definitely have money. It shouldn't be stolen from banks. It should be used to pay for stuff, but not for terrorism. Moneyboxes should be shaped like pigs..."
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Who wants to fund my PhD on how fiction influences policy-making?
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🛂Health passes are supported by a majority of the British public, yet in political circles they are still deeply controversial. My
@InstituteGC
colleague
@DanielSleat
& I debate the case with
@ImogenParker
for
@bmj_latest
today 👇
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We were way more optimistic and energetic than the faces here imply 😄
How can Labour raise the ambition for tech in Government? Packed room with
@techUK
@LabourTogether
@ukonward
@RELXHQ
@turinginst
to discuss what a Labour Government’s tech priorities should be 🌹💻
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Today the PM is meeting international leaders and tech executives to discuss frontier AI safety. Our polling shows he is missing the point.
Check out our short report here 👇, and 🧵 below:
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You know what’s fun? Designing a new process.
You know what’s not fun? Adhering to a process.
You know what’s absolutely awful? Getting other people to adhere to a process.
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You didn't ask, but just in case it's ever useful, here's my top five remedies for when you're in a lil tiny motivation dip:
1⃣ Help someone else with something (other people's problems are much easier and more interesting)
2⃣ Chat to someone funny
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Seriously heavyweight panel - this will be well worth a watch
AI is the most important technology of our generation but getting the policy right is fundamental for the
#FutureofBritain
.
Watch Tony Blair discuss the UK's role in global
#AI
governance live at
@ChathamHouse
this week.
Register your place now:
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Reminder: work-life balance is not just for parents. If you need to leave the office at 5 sharp to get to the pub/fencing class/home to feed your axlotls, that is good for me 👍
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🥇Parenting milestone achieved: got called out for hypocrisy for the first time ✨ (specifically, for crossing before the green man had appeared)
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Week 3 of Big School and I finally got a response to my daily question, "What did you learn at school today?" Unfortunately the answer was, "Gnocchi is made of the moon"
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🎺Cue fanfare: the second batch of our
@InstituteGC
Tech Policy Fellows papers are out today!
Three more dispatches from the cutting edge of tech policy coming your way, and even more excitingly, they are all to do with improving government:
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In a year of feeling incredibly old, nothing has made me feel more ancient than hearing the Word of the Year discussed on
#R4Today
for the first time, without ever having encountered it in the wild. On the positive side, I'm clearly not wasting as much time online as I thought.
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This is a joke. We cannot afford to put up with whatever abjectly inadequate PM the Conservative party decides to foist on us for even another 6 weeks.
#GeneralElectionNow
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♥️♥️♥️Ahhh central London, the atmosphere, the buildings, the people wearing interesting things, the opportunity every 50m to get a Pret coffee that tastes of burnt pencil shavings, the capitalist fripperies (hello, new bar + cricket batting cage concept!) ♥️♥️♥️
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Last week: 3 y/o requests herbal tea instead of milk at bedtime. Feel smug, what a healthy, sophisticated kid.
This morning: enter kitchen to find 3 yo tearing open ~£10 worth of Pukka tea bags and attempting to snort the contents off the kitchen table 🫠
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Looking for insights into Labour's approach to tech policy? Check out this excellent
@NewStatesman
piece (which may or may not include some thoughts from me...)👇
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Finished this at the weekend. Loved it, needless to say. Are there more novels about middle-aged bureaucrats trying to save the world? Is this a whole genre I've been missing out on?
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There is a consultation out atm on data centre security. No I didn't know either...
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🏦💷💻OK, this is where I've got to on Central Bank Digital Currencies: think there's at least 6 possible types of advantages.
In ascending order of speculative-ness:
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There is nothing, NOTHING in this world more aggravating than that bitchy little pause the MacBook does when you enter your password wrong before it shakes its head at you and lets you try again
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Agreed. A passport based only on vaccination status would be deeply unfair, and counterproductive. A health pass integrating test status too, along with mass testing, could vastly reduce the risks of lifting lockdown for many more people
On vaccine passports, can we just agree that discriminating against people *because they are not vulnerable*, having kept them inside for a year to protect people who *are* vulnerable and continuing to do so once the vulnerable are protected, makes a mockery of civil liberties?
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If you haven't previously considered combining a prune with half a teaspoon of soft goat's cheese and shoving it into your mouth on a cracker or a teaspoon, may I recommend that you do so now
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One of the best things about working
@InstituteGC
is that we are building a global team. I have Digital Government colleagues in 🌉🇺🇸, Accra 🇬🇭 & 🇸🇬 as well as 🇬🇧. Our aim is to develop a global perspective on the challenges and opportunities raised by the tech revolution
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What if Twitter did an excruciating end-of-year round-up of your activity like Spotify?
❣️Your most-liked Tweet genres: Humourous Parenting Woes, Political Shitposts!
🔁You retweeted: [Your Boss] 863 times!
🌒Hey, Night Owl! Your fave time to Tweet this year was 23:30-01:15!
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Pondering this morning that the AI Taskforce (now Institute) was one attempt to replicate the effectiveness of the Covid Vaccines Taskforce as an innovative delivery model in govt. Seems important to assess and capture to what extent it was successful - is anyone doing this?
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Lots of concern at the moment about how Trussnomics' low-tax, high-borrowing, high-interest rate model will impact public services. In this new piece
@antonioeweiss
& I argue that we need to radically rethink the public sector if it's to stay affordable🧵
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[braces self] What's good to read on how generative AI will impact public services? Is there anything yet?!
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I hope Tom Scholar gets into Twitter
Tom Scholar is the best civil servant of his generation. Sacking him makes no sense. His experience would have been invaluable in the coming months as government policy places massive upward pressure on the cost of funding. As Gordon Brown used to say "they're not thinking".
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This is so great. Taking parental leave is the single best thing most men can do to promote gender equality. I'm so grateful to have worked in orgs where so many senior men were proud to do it -
@hmtreasury
,
@FCDOGovUK
and now
@InstituteGC
I wrote about it on LinkedIn (sorry). Includes references to the brilliant
@pollymackenzie
and
@UAL
who are charging ahead making change. And sage reflections from fellow new parent
@amcanning
(4/4)
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Musing on evidence-based policy-making (like I do most days). I can't help thinking that all the data and analysis put to ministers were never quite as powerful as the personal stories that they had heard from their constituents, or the thing that once happened to their nephew
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I'm sure the report is also excellent but for now I am just busy ❤️ing the title
Our new report out today, ISA ISA Baby, discusses the UK’s long-standing problem of low savings and the existing policies in place that attempt to address the problem. Here's a thread on the key findings 🧵
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I just can't fathom how the
#vaccinepassport
debate in the UK is still about discrimination. 75% of people have had a first dose. 93% of people want the vaccine. For those who can't have it, you can use testing instead.
#Marr
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@ruskin147
@FT
Maybe starting defence intelligence reports with a paragraph-long quote from a detective novel is part of the reason why they weren't taken seriously enough?
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On the way to the Westminster eForum to talk about data and the UK economy
#itsnothinglikeoilreally
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Only 22% of UK citizens regularly interact with government through digital channels
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Just a casual bit of stunning Art Nouveau interior like they have lying around all over the place here
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✨✨✨
New report from Tony Blair's
@institutegc
with an interesting proposal to provide every child with free remote-first, adaptive learning - it is right that every child should have the chance of a quality education.
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Lots going on
@InstituteGC
this morning!
1️⃣ My amazing colleagues
@ryan_wain
and
@brianna_kmiller
have written about why
#AstraZeneca
and other adenovirus vaccines are going to be crucial to tackling
#coronavirus
worldwide:
The priority right now is proving that AstraZeneca is a great vaccine, adenovirus vaccines work & should be used globally.
Read how this could be achieved by the UK Govt publishing transparent vaccine data, in our report by
@ryan_wain
&
@brianna_kmiller
.
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It's just possible that if, like me, you were carried away last week with all the excitement of the new UK Digital Strategy, or the DHSC's data strategy, then you may ALSO have missed the publication of CDDO's new x-govt Digital and Data Strategy:
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@sarahoconnor_
Before you can start your career in financial services, you have to put in 18 months as a teacher, social worker or care home staff member. If you do a good job you get half a percentage point lower income tax for the rest of your career.
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The topics for the "10 minutes of inspiration" slot at our Tech & Public Policy All-Hands meetings have been 🔥 recently
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Public services in the UK are worn out. Yet we encounter unprecedented efficiency and convenience in the rest of our lives. In a time of huge social and economic challenges, government can and must do much better. Short 🧵:
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Voting, done ❎ All those massive lists and rulers and stubby pencils feel comfortingly lo-tech somehow. But could tech help citizens get more involved in local government?
@BeaconRosie
and I will be asking democracy experts
@j0e_m
and
@CHazelgrove
on Clubhouse at 12:00 BST today
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@ESYudkowsky
I'm not that surprised tbh, I've been getting aggy vibes off the oven for years, and Teams absolutely HATES me
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Hopeless scouring for something completely different, I stumbled on this announcement, which I think is really good news
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I've got no issue with sports metaphors but I didn't hear anything you said for the last 5 minutes because I was wondering what actually IS inside a baseball?
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The Conservatives have been in power for 13 of the 16 years since the iPhone was invented.
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This has nothing to do with anything really, but I was super impressed and surprised that my daughter's Reception teacher-to-be came to meet us at our house 💖
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@samsharpsTBI
Also it's a graduate recruitment scheme... of course no-one has any life experience yet
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"Politics is the business of the most politically engaged 0.1% of the population trying to understand the concerns of the least politically engaged" - fascinating thread from my exceptionally talented colleague
@ChristabelCoops
It’s a year since I took up the fantastic role of Director of Research at
@labourtogether
. Until then, I’d not had a formal job in politics – I’ve spent most of my career doing “normal” jobs in “normal” workplaces. Some reflections on the disconnect between those two worlds. 1/
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@InstituteGC
we have argued that a digital health pass is a valuable tool to limit the spread of
#COVID19
as we lift restrictions. Now
@ianmulheirn
&
@DavidJBritto
have shown how valuable: 25-33% reduction in cases, 6-12k lives saved. Time to move past the politics & do it.
Could mandatory use of the NHS Covid Pass at mass events & nightclubs over the summer prevent millions of
#COVID19
infections and save thousands of lives?
@ianmulheirn
&
@DavidJBritto
say it can.
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If you're in Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference, do come and join this conversation about how we revitalise one of our most crucial and most stretched public services
🏥Putting Innovation At The Heart Of The NHS
Sunday 8th | 1200-1300 | Meeting Room 19, ACC
Our Director of Tech Policy,
@kmei_
, alongside
@wesstreeting
,
@TorbettR
and
@shaunewalsh
In partnership with
@ABPI_UK
#Lab23
#Labconf23
#LabourTogether
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👊♀️Happy International Women's Day
#IWD2021
! Join me at 5pm GMT for a look at how tech has empowered women during the pandemic, and what needs to change, with
@MiaD
and
@Siobhain_Mc
. You can register here:
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Is It Ever OK For Governments To Use Algorithms? A short thread…
[Spoiler alert: yes it is]
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Recommendations for politics podcasts hosted by non-middle-aged-men?
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Come and work with us! We're looking for a London-based Senior Policy Analyst to join the Digital Government Unit. If you're optimistic, energetic and enjoy getting to grips with knotty policy questions, get in touch:
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How you know you're old: you are really into fragrant winter-flowering shrubs. These ones at Finsbury Circus are a delight
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FWIW I think the Just Stop Oil guys are broadly right to be doing what they're doing
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The ChX has gone much further than expected in extending 30 free hours’ childcare for children from 9 months. That is good, for labour market participation, for gender equality, and for children’s outcomes
#Budget2023
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Peek out of flat in Hackney: torrential rain, nothing but waders and North Sea oilskins will do. Get out of train at Liverpool St: everyone else dry and immaculate in canvas tennis shoes and suede heels. How are you all doing it?!
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Good local time everyone! It's Tuesday, and time for our regular
#GovFutures
thread: 5 things to read on a question close to our hearts.
This week, the 5 most strikingly useful and memorable readings I've encountered since I started working on digital government:
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This week's teachers' strike is going to cost us £60+. I still support it. Teaching needs to become a high-status, knowledge economy profession, with pay structures that match that and reward the best performers
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And most importantly it would allow much more frictionless access to services to those who most need them. That's the vision we want leaders to work towards in the UK. The technology is there; the biggest barrier is political courage.
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Right. If we accept people will need to show their health status, we need to provide them with a secure, reliable way to do that, whatever you call it.
Important.
@BorisJohnson
says that the way theatres, nightclubs, concerts and so on will be able to reopen will be by them insisting those who attend can prove they've been vaccinated or have had a rapid-flow covid test. Which is surely a Covid19 identity card by...
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Me popping in to enquire if there are any appointments at the hairdresser
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Looking forward to this!
🤔What can tech bring to public services?
Join techUK,
@RELXHQ
and
@LabourTogether
to discuss how tech can be used for progressive public services with
@techUKdepCEO
Antony Walker,
@KMEI_
,
@RichardMollet
and
@CosDorobantu
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Generous helpings of much-needed optimism here:
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Since we set up our 🌉 team, I've learned that the DMV is the de facto 🆔 provider for millions of people; yet its name was once a by-word for dysfunction and inaccessible public services.
If you're in SF THIS WEDNESDAY, pop in for a drink and hear how that's changing:
What are you up to on Wed, Jun 29 at 5:30pm? If you're in San Francisco, join the Tony Blair Institute to learn more about how California is digitalising its public services. (1/3)
RSVP here:
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👛Happy
#Budget2021
Day!👛 Only a few hours until
@RishiSunak
brandishes the famous red 💼. But what will be in it for tech? My
@InstituteGC
colleagues and I will be sharing our thoughts here. Three themes spring to mind:
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