Public service tech people
People who work in technology for public service and associated trades, including government/GDS and civil service, the BBC, charities, health tech, edu tech etc. Mainly Brits but all welcome: if you think I’ve missed someone - including you - let me know.
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@dhanendran.co.uk
@techforgoodcast.bsky.social
We work with charities and social impact orgs to help them harness the full power of digital - and with funders & partners to create an environment of support. www.wearecast.org.uk
@cjforms.bsky.social
Forms and survey specialist. Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys). Effortmark.co.uk
@mattharrington.bsky.social
Director at Public Digital. Ex GDS, Dept of Health, NHS Digital, Doctorlink and accuRx
@policyskeptic.bsky.social
government policy, health policy, evidence, statistics and sometimes other topics
@myddelton.bsky.social
Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
@jiggott.bsky.social
Head of Product for NHS App at NHS England. Expect digital health + culture + cricket + games + low-res puns.
@loudowne.bsky.social
Founder of @theschoolofgood Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox Trustee @stonewalluk Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov. Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
@himal.bsky.social
Wanderer. Runner. Storyteller. GOV.UK Head of Technology during pandemic. ADHD UK Ambassador: adhduk.co.uk/2025/02/24/himal-mandalia/ ✍️ himalmandalia.medium.com 📷 instagram.com/himalmandalia 📺 youtube.com/@unmaskingadhdwithhimal
@rufflemuffin.bsky.social
Filmmaker / Directing #section28film Founder: anthrobricolage.com Director: @theschoolofgood DR of Design, once ran @wearesnook Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack GOOD Magazine #100 Board member at @lomondtrossachs She/they
@cocochan.bsky.social
Product management and user-centred design in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band. Prolific knitter. She/her
@richardpope.org
I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@jukes.ie
Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK https://digitalbydefault.com/hire-me/
@planningtransport.co.uk
Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk Can also be found: Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros 📸 pixelfed.social/respros 🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
@edent.tel
Longer hair than you. Chaotic Good. Doesn't work for The Man™ any more. If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight. All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent. Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
@tomski.com
Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
@acjsissons.bsky.social
Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring. Personal account.
@billt.bsky.social
Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@jamestplunkett.bsky.social
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together. Also digital stuff. Book: End State: http://amzn.to/3FzY7lv. 🏳️⚧️
@kallmemeg.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
@librarian.bsky.social
Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
@statsgeekclare.bsky.social
Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC, but these are my opinions and not those of my employer! I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@danneidle.bsky.social
Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@tomcoates.bsky.social
English technologist, founder and new product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded a couple of things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about.
@maxroser.bsky.social
— Founder of Our World in Data — Professor at the University of Oxford Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
@dhanendran.co.uk
I’m a coach, product manager and product trainer. Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about