Working for Aptivate in ICT4D - Information and Communication Technology for Development
UK
Joined October 2008
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Alan M Jackson retweeted
Labour rightly & noisily are waving a big stick at the water industry over sewage pouring into our rivers & on to our beaches
But they ignore the key point: privatisation has failed. Water is an essential resource & should be in public hands as it is everywhere else in Europe
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Today, the UK government announced that the military budget will grow to £50 billion, at a time when every other department is under huge financial pressure.
I asked the Defence Secretary what he is doing to bring about a more peaceful world.
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Ascribing agency to technologies is a tactic of powerholders to misdirect attention away from their own role as protagonists and away from the interests being served.
"It's not inevitable. We decide what to do. ... The humans build the tech. The tech is not sentient, it's not a being, it's not a god. Ascribing agency to a tool is a mistake. And it is a diversion tactic."
- Timnit Gebru, @timnitGebru at #RightsCon
Alan M Jackson retweeted
🔴 NEW - The Conservatives received £3.5 million in “dirty donations” from polluters, fossil fuel interests and climate deniers in 2022
📝 New for @DeSmog
desmog.com/2023/03/30/conser…
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Following the overwhelming success of the nine euro ticket experiment last summer, Germany will introduce a permanent €49 pass this spring.
The monthly subscription will allow unlimited travel on buses, trams, subways, and local trains across every region in the entire country. – at Berlin, Germany
ALT A bright yellow U-Bahn passenger train waits at the platform with doors open at a station in Berlin.
ALT Two bright yellow trams wait at the platform side by side at the Alexanderplatz station in Berlin.
ALT A bright yellow passenger bus waits at a stop while passengers disembark on a street in Berlin.
ALT A bright yellow U-Bahn passenger train waits at the platform with doors closed at a station in Berlin.
Alan M Jackson retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: A27 IN SUSSEX BLOCKED
🚧 More disruption to come across the country according to the Met / @metpoliceuk / @metoffice
🚓 Chris, 46, who works as a Chief Constable said:
"We can't arrest our way out of this either."
#COP27 #ClimateChange
Alan M Jackson retweeted
I've called on @RishiSunak to urgently correct the record after he "inadvertently misled" the House during #PMQs by saying he'd only heard of allegations against Gavin Williamson yesterday. A former Tory Chair states he informed the PM well in advance about bullying allegations.
Alan M Jackson retweeted
LBC journalist Charlotte Lynch was arrested whilst reporting on a Just Stop Oil protest, and spent five hours in a prison cell.
This is British press freedom in 2022.
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.
🧵....
Alan M Jackson retweeted
"How far do the British people have to be made poor before we start standing up for ourselves?"
@JustStop_Oil supporters spray paint over Bentley, Ferrari and Bugatti luxury car dealerships in London.
"Inequality is one of the leading causes of the climate crisis." #JustStopOil
Alan M Jackson retweeted
@JustStop_Oil supporter, Peter, retired bouncer and Grandad from South London sprays paint on 55 Tufton Street, the office for various controversial neoliberal think tanks including the climate denialist Global Warming Policy Foundation, rebranded as @NetZeroWatch. #JustStopOil
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Getting set up for the remote-access Kyma workshop @SPLICEorg starting June 28th! Looking forward to meeting everyone at Splice Institute 2021!
Alan M Jackson retweeted
She's back!
We are so delighted to support Maf'j Alvarez in her next round of exciting #VR exploration. Make sure you follow @limbicfish to follow her journey over the next few months.
Alan M Jackson retweeted
Could #mastodon be a decentralised #opensource alternative to twitter? I'm going to try it out this winter joinmastodon.org – at Brighton, England
#ict4eval If evaluation is a one off process separate from implementation is it surprising there's no "learning?
"real literacy = critical reading, writing, talking persuasively and numeracy." - @davelab6
Alan Kay's "computing as brain amplification" possible on TI 92 calculator. What have we filled 4 cores @ 3GHz with?
