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Independent thinking / Technology & the public good AI / DATA / PROCUREMENT / GOVERNANCE

Ask better.
Build better.

Curiosity before certainty.
People before systems.
Evidence before hype.
01 / THE PERSPECTIVE

Independent thinking on artificial intelligence, procurement, data and the decisions that shape public life.

02 / THE PRACTICE

Writing, analysis and small experiments for a more accountable digital world.

03 / GET INVOLVED

Start with six questions that make a technology decision easier to examine.

Explore the interactive tools ↘
The working room / Two interactive exercises

Explore the
possibilities.

Try a six-question governance review, or see how procurement assumptions change a live chart. Two ways to make complex decisions easier to examine.

A practical starting point

Good decisions need better questions.

Choose a topic, answer six prompts and take away a short action brief for discussion.

01 / GET STARTEDCW / INTERACTIVE

What are you working on?

Pick the area closest to your decision. No account needed and nothing you enter is sent to a server.

This is a discussion aid, not legal, procurement or regulatory advice. Your responses remain in this browser tab.

Thoughtful technology starts with accountable decisions.No tracking by this tool. No form submissions. No scoring data collected.

Explore a spend scenario

Illustrative annual spend / GBP millions
£m
44% of total
£m
24% of total
£m
18% of total
£m
14% of total

Where the spend sits.

LIVE / EDIT THE FIGURES
  • Technology44%
  • Services24%
  • Estates18%
  • Other14%
Annual spend in scope£4,785,000

Change an amount or move a slider to see the illustration update.

5%100%
0%15%
Illustrative total spend£8,700,000
Illustrative annual opportunity£191,400
Illustrative spend after change£8,508,600

A thinking tool, not a forecast. Figures are examples and do not represent cw.is or any organisation's actual expenditure.

Illustrations are not forecasts or validated savings.All calculations remain in your browser. No spend inputs are collected.
The notebook / An editorial selection

Read a little.
Think a lot.

Nine articles, selected afresh from the archive. Ideas, questions and practical notes on the relationship between technology and people.

A different selection appears each time you visit or refresh.Browse the writing ↗
On the bookshelf / The Algorithmic Guard

Who guards
the algorithm?

A space to think critically about algorithms, the choices behind them and the responsibility that should never be outsourced.

Find The Algorithmic Guard on Amazon ↗
The Algorithmic Guard book cover
Find a starting point

Follow your
curiosity.

Different questions, a shared belief: the details of how we build, buy and govern technology matter.

01AI & its consequencesAccountability, oversight, fairness and useful limits. 02Procurement & analysisBetter evidence, better buying and better public value. 03Data & responsible designQuality, privacy and the choices beneath every dataset.