On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we will hold the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.
It’s designed to bring together people across the public sector working on (or interested in) engaging the public on data and AI, with those in civil society, the private sector and academia working in the field. It’ll be a safe space to hear about what others are doing and work through common challenges.
The network meets on a Chatham House basis (nothing attributed unless you want it to be, anything confidential excluded altogether), with notes circulated within the network. We do something similar with an existing data and AI civil society network, and have lots of existing links with public engagement practitioners.
In our first and second events, we had presentations from practitioners engaging the public. Our third event was an online workshop around the question, what do public engagement practitioners need to succeed? Our fourth event had presentations on how to engage different communities, including historically excluded ones, and our fifth presentations on different methods for involving the public. Our sixth event asked what’s next for public involvement on data and AI and our seventh heard about outputs from a recent Public Voices in AI programme. Our eighth meeting received inputs from Open Data Manchester and the Government Digital Service. Our ninth meeting looked at using tech tools to support public engagement, the tenth discussed health data and the eleventh learned from Sense about Science. The twelfth was about evaluating Liverpool’s Residents’ Assembly and the Royal Academy of Engineering on their People’s AI Stewardship Summits.
Our confirmed speakers are:
- Trupti Patel, Programme Lead at Sciencewise about their recent projects
- Charlotte Gredal, Scientific Manager from Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing, School of Public Health, Imperial College London on linked local data
- Representative(s) of CoLab, the Home Office Policy and Innovation Lab
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