🚨 ICYMI last week we published a new paper which has explored the open-source AI debate. Despite being a high-stakes dialogue, but new areas of consensus have begun to emerge along with persisting disagreement and unanswered questions to start thinking about next steps for safely pursuing openness benefits. Read our new research 👇 https://lnkd.in/e8WVk8zn
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Demos is a champion of people, ideas, and democracy. We bring people together. We bridge divides. We listen and we understand. We are practical about the problems we face, but endlessly optimistic and ambitious about our capacity, together, to overcome them. At a crossroads in Britain’s history, we need ideas for renewal, reconnection and the restoration of hope. Challenges from populism to climate change remain unsolved, and a technological revolution dawns, but the centre of politics has been intellectually paralysed. Demos will change that. We can counter the impossible promises of the political extremes, and challenge despair – by bringing to life an aspirational narrative about the future of Britain that is rooted in the hopes and ambitions of people from across our country.
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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 The open-source AI debate has been a high-stakes dialogue, but new areas of consensus have begun to emerge along with persisting disagreement and unanswered questions to start thinking about next steps for safely pursuing openness benefits. Read our new paper, supported by Mozilla, today⬇ https://lnkd.in/e8WVk8zn
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Over the past week we've seen how much power lies in the coming together of communities in response to riots. Published today our letter in the The Guardian, signed by Polly Curtis, Halima Begum, Su Moore and others, presents this surge in community spirit as the beginning of a shared endeavour of national renewal and an opportunity not to be missed. Alongside Power to Change, we're urging the government to make this moment of community spirit count by launching a Build Back Stronger inquiry on methods to collaboratively rebuild our communities. 📣 We're delighted to have many friends across civil society backing this call: Tim Davies-Pugh, Power to Change, Chine McDonald, Theos think tank, Su Moore, The Jo Cox Foundation, Halima Begum, Oxfam GB, Matthew Bolton, Citizens UK, Will Brett and Deana Bamford, We're Right Here, Emily Bolton MBE, Our Future, Tony Armstrong, Locality, Jon Alexander, New Citizen Project, Hannah Peaker, New Economics Foundation ✉ Read the full letter in The Guardian here ➡ https://lnkd.in/gvDZxtMW
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We're on the lookout for new Trustees to join our Board! If you have significant experience of fundraising from foundations and influencing major stakeholders, and can provide strategic direction on effective delivery, please consider applying👇 https://lnkd.in/emba8RMj
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Check out this excellent new Demos essay from Marcial Boo on integrity in public office✍
Today my report on public service integrity is published by the independent think tank Demos. It focuses on the 'integrity mismatch' between elected politicians, who must sometimes make difficult ethical compromises as part of their governance role, and the unelected public servants who implement their policy goals, to whom no such flexibility can apply. The integrity mismatch can lead to tension if public servants have strong ethical qualms about political decisions they must implement. Such tensions are inevitable, but they should be better understood and managed. Strengthening ethical watchdogs will not be effective alone without an accompanying focus on education and culture, including in relation to the integrity mismatch. Public servants should be trained to handle the ethics of implementing messy political compromises that may challenge their understanding of standards of integrity. This includes developing confidential ways for public servants to raise ethical concerns, and potentially expanding the use of ministerial directions to cover issues of propriety as well as value for money. Reciprocally, politicians should be trained in how to receive and weigh unwelcome advice on ethical standards in their decision-making roles. Standards of integrity matter. They make a country a safe, reliable place to live, study and do business, with low levels of corruption and unbiased enforcement of the law. Understanding integrity better in practice will allow politicians to pursue their policy goals flexibly, while taking account of good ethical advice from public servants. I am grateful to Polly Curtis and Ben Glover at Demos for publishing the report and for the advice of Prof Nick Pearce at Bath Uni, Matthew Gill and Tim Durrant at the Institute for Government, Prof Mark Philp at Warwick Uni, Prof Robert Hazell at UCL, and Martin Stanley, among others. Do share the report with public service colleagues who care about integrity while implementing policy in a political world. https://lnkd.in/ek2mueiU
The Integrity Mismatch
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🚨 NEW RESEARCH 🚨 In partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), we've harnessed innovative social media listening techniques to shed light on the experiences of people living in financial hardship. Today we launch Wave Two of the year long programme of work. 🔎 In this wave, we focused on gathering insights on the intersection of #disability and #poverty. 1️⃣ Key findings ranged from the vital role of mutual aid via online forums, difficulties navigating government support services and political engagement in an election year. 2️⃣ We found distressing examples of individuals experiencing extreme hardship, with many resorting to online support from the community. 3️⃣ Despite the challenges, we saw an overwhelming determination from citizens to ‘fight like hell’, for their rights *and* the rights of others. 📕 Read the full report out today. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/enHzbgwM
“Fight like hell!” An online forum listening exercise revealing how people talk about poverty online
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How can Labour make mission-driven government a reality? In our new paper, supported by Headland, we highlight the transformational economic impact of partnering with businesses, and lay the roadmap to unlocking true partnership in practice. Paper author, Andrew O'Brien, shows that this will require a shift on both sides. Businesses need to become more collaborative and think about the wider interests of society. Government will need to develop more deliberative policy and commit to longer term plans. As our story in The Times today shows, unless we are able to do this, the state will be required to inject billions more into the economy to achieve higher levels of investment. 📣 This paper introduces our new Business Partnership Council, where Demos, supported by Headland, will be convening a series of roundtables bringing together government, businesses and other experts to explore how we can put the shared desire for partnership into practice. 🗞 Read article in The Times ➡ https://lnkd.in/eRmDQW6W 📕 Read the paper in full ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eAaPzwTd
Partnership in Practice: How can the new government work with business to deliver missions?
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Join us tomorrow for a timely discussion on how tackling the acute challenges in our public services can be balanced with the shift to longer-term prevention. We'll be joined by an expert panel of Halima Khan, Nick Pearce and Catherine Needham Register to attend in-person or online ⬇ https://lnkd.in/erqFAXa2
Demos Event: New priorities for public services and reform
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🚨 We are looking for a brilliant researcher with demonstrable experience in tech policy to join our digital policy team. You will be passionate about social change, enthusiastic about Demos’ digital policy mission, able to manage multiple projects, and keen to be part of a collaborative and dynamic team. Apply here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eddEeaVk
Digital Policy Researcher
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🚨NEW RESEARCH 🚨 The challenges facing the country and the new Labour government are daunting. From broken public services to a sluggish economy, with an electorate worn down by the cost-of-living crisis and a chronic breakdown of trust, the period ahead will be marked by difficult decisions in a fiscally-constrained environment. Taking the public on this journey will not be easy. Our Citizens’ White Paper, produced in collaboration with Involve, sets out why, when and how the government could embed citizen involvement in national policy making to tackle the complex and potentially divisive challenges facing our country and deliver on the Prime Minister’s promise to restore trust in politics. Find out more ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eJzSs5hX
Citizens’ White Paper
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