Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Writer, poet, creative thinker. Working on parliaments, participation & innovation. "Wonk" (Daily Express). More like to be on Blue Sky these days

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

This echo chamber of lies. I stick with it because of the good people I like and learn from. It's a shrinking pool. I'm not interested in the know-it-alls (who don't) and spewing bots of disinformation... Dark clouds linger, elsewhere the sky is blue...

[IPUparliament @IPUparliament]

IPU published the first World E-Parliament report in 2008.

Today, as half the world votes in 2024 #elections, SG @MartinChungong urges all #parliaments and #MPs to make use of #IPU tools to support digital growth.

Read his opinion piece
➡️https://t.co/4E5EndVsZY

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@Jedirev He was a good man, great to work with!

[IPUparliament @IPUparliament]

Snr researcher from #IPU's Centre for #Innovation in Parliament, @andy_williamson will present key findings from 2024's World e-Parliament report, inc the rise of #AI, benefits of cloud computing, challenges of #socialmedia + the Digital Maturity Index.
➡️https://t.co/5o3SbtAGp7

[IPUparliament @IPUparliament]

6️⃣8️⃣% of #parliaments surveyed by #IPU reported having a multi-year digital strategy, based on responses from 1️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ parliamentary chambers.

What do these strategies reveal about tech in parliaments?
Read the new IPU 2024 World e-Parliament Report
➡️https://t.co/q5MbUz21ai

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@KG_Jura Kyle of Localsh to Kyleakin was 1995 after the bridge, but that's an outlier. There was a ferry from Mallaig that took in various places in Skye plus Glenelg, Kyle and Applecross. That finished in the 70s with just Mallaig-Armadale left.

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer By the time you’ve converted a normal shed to have decent lighting, wired up, insulated and fully water tight, plus fitted out the inside to feel like a room (time and materials etc), those ready made ones will look much better value!

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@wodieskodie Our local couriers in Skye are pretty good and deliver for everyone else. The problem is Evri have been trying to screw them over so no one will deliver for them. It’s entirely down to Evri’s greed and incompetence

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@SerraSilvaSofia Congratulations!

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

My last day as Makar. It's been a joy. To @scotgov and @ByLeavesWeLive, to @historic_ally, the librarians, readers, writers of Scotland, to the gods and goddesses of poetry, eternal thanks. There will be another Makar, in due course. Me, I'm in my garret, having a wee lie doon.

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@peterday1 Blue sky, Peter. Not perfect but improving all the time

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

This echo chamber of lies. I stick with it because of the good people I like and learn from. It's a shrinking pool. I'm not interested in the know-it-alls (who don't) and spewing bots of disinformation... Dark clouds linger, elsewhere the sky is blue...

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@welshflier I wasn’t that impressed before but more good people going that way helps a lot

[Jeni Tennison @JeniT]

So much techno-utopianism about AI, particularly from @InstituteGC, in recent months.

Even the tiniest amount of experience of delivering digital/data/AI systems in the public sector would reveal it's a bit more complicated than that.

🧵 Ten challenges that need to be tackled

[Philip Coghill @philcoghill]

🧵 1/8 Government acknowledges that the Highlands & Islands region has a crucial strategic role, economically & on clean energy

'The map is being folded north'

However, people are (rightly) quick to point out that in many areas the infrastructure is playing catch up

[Fotis Fitsilis @fotisfitsilis]

My presentation and working policy paper with @gmikros and @wi00194 at the 16th #Wroxton Workshop are now available online; check them out!
Paper: https://t.co/BopLaYoGxx
Presentation: https://t.co/DTw6EWtOq0

[Tube Map Central @TubeMapCentral]

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@jamiemchale All Scottish railways (ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper) are publicly owned. LNER is public too, typo in my last reply, sorry. Only Avanti is private, but they operate primarily in England. So very minimal addition to our ownership.

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

I don't understand this post. 'Our' railways are already publicly owned, has this man chosen to represent someone else already?

[Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @DrScottArthurMP]

Getting stuff done.

[Dr Andy Williamson FRSA 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andy_williamson]

@jamiemchale Much of the English network is privately owned some of it (e.g. LNER) is public as is all of Wales, Scotland & NI. Infrastructure is all public