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By Mark Thompson  The other day I was invited to keynote an all-day academy session for Jadu, a leading supplier of platform software for local government. There was a great lineup of speakers, as usual – but something caught my eye that day that I thought deserves sharing more broadly. It’s this: So why do I like it? […] [more]...

By Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, Professor of Design Engineering and Innovation and Director of DIGIT Lab Today I take over as Director of the DIGIT Lab, and continue to work with Alan Brown as Deputy Director, effectively reversing our roles and continuing to work together, also with the wider team. It was wonderful to be invited to […] [more]...

“You can deliver locally configured Public Services that will conform with your localism agenda, while standardising your back-end” – Mark Thompson delivers an insightful and engaging keynote at Jadu’s Academy in Birmingham. [more]...

By Mark Thompson On 23 June, I gave a presentation on a panel titled “Subjectivity, subjects, asubjectivation and subjectivation: which relevance for posthumanist studies?”. Now, those interested in the digital economy might rightly ask themselves what on earth this has to do with technology, and this would be a fair question. In the broadest of all terms, […] [more]...