Giles Lane

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 8 October 2025 we held the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

At our last Data & AI public engagement community @gileslane.bsky.social from @raeng.org.uk spoke on their People's AI Stewardship Summits.

📽️ Watch a video of the presentation youtu.be/5rF7TUCBTHE or read the notes & more connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Realising Societal Resilience for a Whole of Society Approach to Defence NATO's unity may have held in The Hague, but the focus on defence spending overshadowed a deeper issue: societal resilience.

The recent NATO Summit in The Hague focused narrowly on defence spending targets but overlooked the deeper issue of societal resilience. 'Societal resilience must be seen as central, not separate, to national defence' writes Katharine A.M. Wright in the latest RUSI Commentary.

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 8 October 2025 we held the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

How did @raeng.org.uk run their People's AI Stewardship Summits, & what did they learn?

How can you evaluate deliberative engagement, & what can we learn from Liverpool's Residents' Assembly on Data and AI?

Giles Lane & Anna Beckett present at the recent @connectedbydata.org community of practice

Critical materials - reducing demand and ensuring sustainability Explore a new report from the NEPC about resource efficiency and demand reduction for critical materials to support the UK’s existing Net Zero Strategy.

We need a circular economy for materials. Our critical materials report recommends improved repair, recycling and recovery of electronics to preserve valuable materials stocks like lithium and neodymium. Read now on International e-waste day: https://raeng.org.uk/critical-materials
#EWasteDay

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice On Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 2pm we will hold the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

🪧 Data & AI public engagement community of practice. On Wed 8 Oct 2pm we will be joined by @gileslane.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk on their People's AI Stewardship Summits & Anna Beckett on evaluating @civicdatacoop.bsky.social Residents’ Assembly.

🔗 Register at connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

The @raeng.org.uk 4th People’s AI Stewardship Summit is happening tomorrow in Swansea in partnership with the Academy’s Enterprise Hub Wales – looking forward to rich discussions exploring hopes, fears & expectations for safe & responsible #AI with local public & stakeholders.

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Robert Macfarlane: We shouldn't have to risk our health every time we get in the water | Good Law Project Water companies are drowning in debt and pumping out sewage. It’s time for Labour to get serious on water pollution.

✍️"How did it come to this: that the water of our rivers became first undrinkable, then unswimmable, then untouchable?"

💥NEW piece from award-winning nature writer, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social calling on the government to get serious on water pollution⬇️
goodlawproject.org/update/rober...

Public opinions on AI - Belfast, Glasgow - YouTube A series of videos from the Academy's People's AI Stewardship Summits. These are an ongoing series of events with past events in Belfast and Glasgow. Future ...

The next @raeng.org.uk People’s AI Stewardship Summit will be in Liverpool at the end of January – view the hopes, fears & expectations shared so far by participants in Belfast & Glasgow
#ai #publicdialogue #engineering
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People's AI Stewardship Summit in Glasgow The second People’s AI Stewardship Summit took place in Glasgow. This summit focused on exploring the themes of AI in healthcare and education.

Back in October we held the @raeng.org.uk 2nd People's AI Stewardship Summit in Glasgow in partnership with @enterprisehub.raeng.org.uk Videos and a visual summary of the day can be found here: raeng.org.uk/policy-and-r...