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    Apr 11

    If you’re doing something related to the UK 2018 Local Elections, you need to know about this:

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    "The World Bank is proposing lower minimum wages and greater hiring and firing powers for employers as part of a wide-ranging deregulation of labour markets deemed necessary to prepare countries for the changing nature of work" - HT

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    Apr 21

    Hackers Unite! Assemble a team, or compete on your own in this Capture-the-Flag hacking competition at , the community space for political technologists.

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    Apr 21

    This is absolutely not OK for a government that claims to take digital so seriously it puts it in the name of the department. Please revise and re-issue , this is much too important for amateurism.

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    Apr 19

    Anyway apparently there has been Weather so its time to talk about how sun-cream works again. SPF is the most commonly known metric, and is a measure of how much UVB is blocked. However, the scale isn't linear. SPF50 doesn't block twice as much as SPF25.

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    Apr 20

    To counter this... London's community continues to thrive and grow - nearly 7,000 meetup members & more groups forming all the time (check out the fab & communities if you haven't) via

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    Apr 20
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    ***Date change: event will take place June 2-3!!***

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    Apr 20

    Amazing talks here at , watch live at:

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    Apr 20

    Myself and are bringing Critical Incubator hackathon to London, kindly hosted by the amazing . Bringeth all your systemic change. based projects, come hack with us! May 26-27th.

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    Apr 19

    For all those interested in how effective citizens assemblies are at reigniting people’s political imaginations, we’re promoting this great event next Monday, at house:

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    Apr 18

    Introducing our new cohort of ventures – meet the nine teams who joined us today for the spring 2018 accelerator. Read more about them in our blog –

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    Apr 18

    Hearing about failures in Civic Tech, big cluster around efforts to solve collective action problems

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    Apr 18

    Oh wow! has opened their data

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    Apr 18

    .’s on the last 12 months: “We can no longer assume civic tech means tech for good”

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    Apr 18

    First question hits on difficult problem of defining political ads. this is already something that has different definitions in diff places. Eg UK ASA will judge an ad about a petition but define it as political if it's a referendum

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    Apr 17

    23rd April at . , citizen participation, radical democracy. We have a stellar panel, a high calibre audience, a great venue and a compelling film to share. All plugs/shares much appreciated.

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    Apr 16

    The page on voting doesn't mention the fact that there are 5 voter ID pilots this May. Says "You don’t have to take your poll card with you", but that might disenfranchise people. Can someone in my network get this fixed please?

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    Apr 15

    My idea for fixing Facebook: shut down Facebook and everyone goes back to the weird niche fan site forum they were on in 2001, where they then form a really deep friendship with a teen who lives in Poland

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    Apr 16

    Not long until our next event on April 24th: "Cambridge Analytica and the future of social media." We'll be live-tweeting the discussions.

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    Apr 15

    Evening! and I made a game about laying in bed with your best friend and making major life decisions. Play it here:

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    Apr 15

    is hosting a round table with John Bryden and on political data and modelling. At Newspeak House on April 27th in an informal atmosphere. We only have a very limited number of seats available. Please register soon!

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