Maxine Meighan

UX Researcher @Alzheimerssoc, Trustee of @ScottishMCN #LivedExperience #Disability #Dementia #LGBTQ #HumanRights ✊

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Yesteryear - contemporary dance & theatre performance, choreographed by Evelina Sjödin Bergström, with music composed by Emily Frances Ippolito. The whole piece is based on the experience of #dementia. Commissioned as part of @Deepnessdement1 Scottish Dementia Arts Festival 🩰

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‘These are all banners that have been made from @ScottishMCN Meeting Centres across Scotland, all the way from Musselburgh to Arbroath, Forfar. “This Meeting Centre here, robs #Dementia of its fear”’ - Graham Galloway CEO of Scottish Meeting Centres @Deepnessdement1 Scot Art Fest

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@MareeToddMSP ‘I want to thank the Minister @MareeToddMSP for her words of encouragement and hope’ @rcolemanvoices at the Scottish #Dementia Arts Festival #SDAF

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‘I know from the programme just how much you have planned, there will be something for everyone. I’m continually inspired by Ron & partners. A fantastic example of the motto of #dementia activists - Nothing About Us, Without Us’ @MareeToddMSP opening Scottish Dementia Arts Fest

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‘I’ve seen firsthand the impacts this type of support can bring. We’re committed as a government to help this type of support continue. With the new National #Dementia Strategy, I’ve seen our work to celebrate and collaborate with the lived experience panel’ @MareeToddMSP #SDAF

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‘When we realise it’s not the end & it’s the beginning, we start doing things. We start to believe in ourselves. The ability to achieve & learn. We start to do things differently. We either sit & wait for god or we make god chase us for a while. That’s a choice’ @Deepnessdement1

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‘It’s been a year of learning. Our vision is a festival where people living with dementia are at the forefront. When I was diagnosed, my head went up my backside. It was only when I met activists, that I understood #dementia wasn’t the end, it was the start’ @Deepnessdement1

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‘They said it couldn’t be done, yet here we are. And we’ll be again next year and the next year, and the year after that’ @rcolemanvoices of @Deepnessdement1 opens the 2nd Scottish #Dementia Arts Festival in #Edinburgh 🎨

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@GerakdK1063 Nice choice of records!!

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@HarrietHarman @DigiLeaders ‘It’s a classic case for change. We have to think about the implications of AI for our democracy. We have so much data on everyone, we could be using AI to register people to vote with an opt-out systems, increasing voting equality’ @HarrietHarman closing @DigiLeaders #AI

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‘AI must be an engine for equality, not entrench inequality. Helping public sector do more & better. It needs the best talent, it has to include women. Currently men outnumber women in tech 2 to 1. The sector is contaminated with a tech bro culture’ @HarrietHarman @DigiLeaders

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‘The problem is that whilst AI moves at great speed, the speed of policy change is painfully slow. Particularly if it’s something MP’s feel uncertain about. By the time our laws to regulate tech come into place, they are already out of date’ - @HarrietHarman closing @DigiLeaders

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‘We all know what’s right & what’s wrong. If we have the right people in the room we can talk about it. But the emphasis is on productively, how can we make things more efficient. The conversation should be how can we make it more ethical. We can all be part of AI’ #DigiLeaders

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Next session, Ethics and AI. How do we mitigate bias and create a diverse workforce behind AI? Is the internet a true representation of our audiences? #DigiLeaders @DigiLeaders at the Public Sector Innovation Conference

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'How do we build stronger capability as we develop our staff & skills to help scale solutions? Thinking about how we give the right information at the right time, at your fingertips. Building that solid foundation of how to collaborate in multi disciplinary teams’ #DigiLeaders

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‘People have a right to accesible information & informed consent. Easy read is more than a direct translation. Working with people w/ lived experience, co-production. Bringing the 1st generative AI easy read, open sourced. Making accessibility available to everyone’ #DigiLeaders

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‘At @alzheimerssoc, we support users with vulnerability. How do we manage foundational data infrastructure & balance that with digital innovation?’ - Great question from Head of Digital Innovation, Amy Shearing at #DigiLeaders @DigiDigital Public Sector Innovation Conf #Dementia

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Phrase of the day ‘dog fooding ’ - when AI starts to consume and digest its own content. Learning a LOT today at the 6th Public Sector Innovation Conference @DigiLeaders #DigiLeaders #ArtificialIntelligence

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‘Efficiency shouldn’t be a dirty word’ but it’s not the only goal with AI, if we streamline, what are we doing with saved time? ‘It’s not about doing things with less people, it’s getting value from people, personal touch, freeing people from case work, so experts problem solve’

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‘We don’t want to be told ‘this is what generative AI can do for you’. We want to do it on our own. Once we started with sandboxes we could see it transform business processes. We want staff to be front end. AI is just a technology, but it is an unknown territory ’ #DigiLeaders