Great to hear that GovCamp Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is returning for 2025!

Photograph of the Edinburgh Futures Institute on a sunny day.

🚨 Exciting news 🚨

If you’re in/around service delivery in the Scottish public or third sector, GovCamp Scotland is returning after more than a decade, taking place at Edinburgh Futures Institute on 19 June.

Tix available from 31 March. See you there?

www.govcamp.scot

Design workshops that help divergent activities happen are great. You get a range of ideas and the nuance required to get specific.

AI summaries of those workshops turn all that nuance into mush. It’s an anti-pattern.

Writing up notes is at the core of knowledge work, you can’t outsource it.

I’m aware the entry point might be the least important part of the nursery experience. Still frustrating. Rude for me to improve a form and send back?

Childcare providers! Your application forms are inaccessible. Your waiting lists are opaque. Your fees are astronomical. Some of these things are easily improved (forms).

😂😂😂

Oh Tom, naive Tom.

Fighting bureaucracy is the work.