The Digital Centre is an event series that aims to foster collaboration across government departments and local communities to address the UK's most pressing challenges

GNU Taler is a privacy-friendly online payment system that aims to make transactions fast and easy, while eliminating fraud and protecting user data by design

Code4Compassion is a 24-hour hackathon that brings together AI developers and animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection

The article explores the idea of using large language models (LLMs) to iteratively improve code, similar to how users would ask an LLM to make an image 'more X'

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The content appears to be a peer-reviewed paper discussing network contagion and related topics

This event at the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring together a panel of LSE researchers to discuss the key outcomes and implications of the many elections that took place around the world in the past year

The blog post discusses the evolution of DataMade, a civic technology company in Chicago, over the past 12 years

• Govtech vendors

The report examines the political bias within popular AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs), finding left-leaning bias in their policy recommendations and sentiment towards political parties and ideologies

This article discusses websites that are designed to facilitate people-based change, such as social movements and community organizing

The Impact Accelerator Program is a 6-week course that helps experienced professionals design an impact path aligned with their interests, aptitudes, and values

All Day TA is an AI-powered teaching assistant that provides 24/7 access to accurate, professor-approved answers for students

Conversational Game Theory (CGT) is a formal game of messaging, replies, and tagging between human or AI agents that addresses qualitative, reasoning-intensive challenges while synthesizing multiple perspectives through high stakes conflict resolution and consensus building

The Orbit Model is a framework for building and growing online communities

The content appears to be a WhatsApp group invite for a group called 'Project D

The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) is a UK organization that promotes and supports the advice sector, including through the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) certification program

The proposed changes aim to improve road safety in the Shoreditch area, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists

• United Kingdom (government)

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The content provides an overview of the AI safety landscape, including organizations, programs, projects, communities, funders, and resources related to AI safety research and development

Anthropic has open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources like content repositories, business tools, and development environments

The AI Governance Map is an interactive visualization that provides an overview of the AI governance landscape, including key organizations, initiatives, and resources related to the responsible development and deployment of AI systems

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The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool, allowing forecasters to test their skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

Liberating Structures is a website that provides a menu of 33 microstructures and design elements to help organizations and teams engage everyone, foster innovation, and address complex challenges

The Data for Policy 2025 Europe conference will explore the transformative power of data and AI in driving sustainability and inclusion, focusing on the 'twin transition' of digital and green transformations

This report by the Low Pay Commission examines the latest evidence on underpayment and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in 2024

• United Kingdom (government)

The article discusses the concept of holographic consensus, which aims to resolve the tension between the scalability and resilience of decentralized governance systems

Network School is founding a new academic community on an island near Singapore, starting with a 90-day popup on September 23

The article discusses the history and ethos of the 'digital garden' - a newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web that differs from the traditional personal blog format

Google DeepMind is exploring the use of AI to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, with the goal of ushering in a new golden age of discovery

This video discusses the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and collective intelligence, exploring how these elements can contribute to collective governance and decision-making processes

Notwestminster 2025 is a free event that brings together people interested in improving local democracy in the UK

This is a casual wine and chat event hosted by Daniel Burka at the Luma office in London

The article discusses the political economy of coliving, exploring the different models of shared housing such as cooperatives, grassroots coliving, and professional coliving

ENAIS has launched a newsletter specifically for AI safety field builders, with a focus on Europe but expected to be useful for organizers located elsewhere as well

Chayn, a growing organization, is hosting a Work In Progress (WIP) night in London to showcase their ongoing projects, gather feedback, and connect with their community of volunteers, partners, funders, and supporters

The post announces the launch of monthly coordination calls for European AI safety field builders, organized by ENAIS

The Atlas project by The Sentry is a data initiative that maps, visualizes, and analyzes networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy

WhatGov is a platform that allows users to engage with their local government and representatives, providing a space for debates, discussions, and accessing information about their elected officials and parliamentary activities

This website provides a comprehensive market map of AI agent technologies, covering various categories such as agent orchestration, runtime services, and industry-specific applications

The AI Art Turing Test is a website that explores the capabilities of artificial intelligence in generating art

The article discusses Renaissance Philanthropy, a new organization that aims to facilitate the funding of ambitious scientific and innovative projects by wealthy philanthropists, similar to how the Medicis supported the great artists and inventors of the Italian Renaissance

The Data Observation Toolkit (DOT) is a software tool that can be used to monitor data as it is collected and entered into a database, helping to identify issues with data integrity, quality, protocols, and outliers that may need attention

DataKind is hosting a virtual DataKit event, a work-ready set of data science problems in the domain of social good

Luminate, a philanthropic organization, has announced that Melanie Hui will take over as the new CEO from the founding CEO Stephen King on January 1, 2025

This article discusses how philanthropy can drive social transformation by investing in social innovators who can build bridges across sectors and between disparate parts of a system to drive collective action and impact, with a greater emphasis on equity, trust, and partnership

This video discusses the concept of 'The Rules for Rulers', which examines the incentives and constraints that shape the behavior of political leaders and rulers

This report presents findings from a qualitative study on the experiences of victims of cyber crime and fraud in England and Wales

• United Kingdom (government)