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​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

​Following a successful initial meeting there seems to be a great need to come together on this area of massive importance. So we are holding a second larger get together. Please share the details with people and networks that may be interested. Towards the end of the evening we will talk about the various pathways that are now getting to create a new mass movement around these themes.

​So what is going on?

​The age of secular materialism is condemning our living planet to death, and the Left is failing to define a vision of humanity that reclaims the spirit of life and the future. The deafening silence of liberalism and the transparent spectre of “the woke” are accomplices to techno-fascism’s rise as we hurtle towards extinction.

​What will it take for us to reclaim our care for this world? For each other? To draw a line in the sand against the same stale ideologies that have bought us to this point of global suicide, and to work together towards something rooted in our love for life?

​Our age can be defined by a war of the ‘human’ vs the ‘anti-human’. This war has various fronts - the battle over AI, the battle against big tech’s erosion of democracy, and the battle over the destruction of the biosphere. The world is dying, and core to it all is political corruption married to extreme concentrations of wealth. It is a system that holds infinite growth at all cost to be sacred, and the human to be profane.

​This event is not about rehashing some secular reformist left “concern”, or getting lost in an endless post-modernist sludge of constipated critique. It is about exploding into a new passionate love for the human - in all our fullness and glory. It seeks to wage an attack on the dead ideological flatlands of ‘technology as god, instrumentalism as god, and power as god’. It seeks instead to build a new reenchanted way of being.

​This evening’s event consists of 3 provocations on what it means to be human. This is followed by responses, before splitting into break-out groups and discussing among ourselves, then feedback. This will be followed by networking and discussion.

​And as mentioned - things do not end there. This event is bought to you by a coalition of groups explicitly working for revolutionary change in the face of extinction. We will take feedback on new concrete ideas on how we resist the end times, imagine a future worth living for, and provide pathways to collective action.

Forest is a new tool from Prime Radiant that combines high-frequency national MRP polling, large demographic datasets, and AI analysis features to model public sentiment with extraordinary detail and precision, and understand the complex relationship between who we are and what we think.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

​IF turns 10 this year and to celebrate, you’re invited to our new series of conversations. There will be insights from experts and a chance to discuss opportunities around emerging technology and trust with the IF community.

​For our first session we’re exploring the theme of ‘AI triage’.

​When you get in touch with a product or service today, there’s a good chance that an AI agent is the first thing that you communicate with. Sometimes that means accessing helpful information quickly, and sometimes it means frustration or even inaccuracies.

​We want to explore when generative AI can be responsibly used to improve outcomes in public services and when humans need to step in.

​When are human interactions important and when do people expect them? Where do we draw the line between high-stakes and low-stakes interactions? And do people always understand when they’re talking to a person and when it’s an AI-generated output?

​Joining us to discuss this and bringing in their breadth of experience from across the NHS, local government and the charity sector will be:

​Imogen Levy, Chief Digital Officer, RSPCA (previously NHS England)

​Imogen was Head of Product for ‘First Contact: Intelligent Navigation’, the national programme enabling AI-powered triage and self-referral, which is now rolling out through the NHS App.

​Lingjing Yin, Head of Product, Royal Borough of Greenwich Council

​Lingjing leads product transformation and service design at the Royal Borough of Greenwich, improving resident outcomes across services such as social care and housing. She’s also the co-lead for Greenwich’s anti-poverty response.

​The last 10 years have been transformative, and the next 10 are set to be even more so. We’d love you to help us kick off this new era, enjoy some drinks and snacks, and join us in this conversation about where things go from here.

Ben Whitelaw, founder and writer of Everything in Moderation and Georgia Iacovou, writer of Horrific/Terrific, are teaming up again for an evening event on November 5th.

​The United Kingdom has decided to follow Australia in imposing a kid-focused social media ban. What comes next is anyone’s guess.

​There’s no doubt protecting children online has become a political hot potato, and a central concern for parents and policymakers, alike.

​But does removing children from the likes of TikTok and Instagram lead to harm reduction and the creation of safe online spaces? And how will companies and regulators tackle such a complex digital policy topic at a time of heightened domestic and international political uncertainty?

​The event will bring together leading voices, on both sides of the argument, for a frank and honest conversation about children’s online safety and what will likely come next as the UK moves ahead with its social media ban.

​The event will also provide an informal opportunity to catch up with others from the UK’s tech policy community over a drink or two!

​Come for the online safety chat, and stay for the free drinks.

​TIMINGS:

​18:30 – 19:00: Doors open; grab a drink, chat, find a seat
​19:00 – 19:45: Intros, followed by lightning talks
​19:45 – 20:30: Q&A
​20:30 – 22:00: Networking — drinks and conversation to continue until close

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.