Our events bring together the brightest minds and most influential voices from across the political spectrum, civil society, business and the economy.
We currently host two networks which meet monthly hosting high level speakers:
The Public Services 2030 Network is a movement of organisations and individuals committed to rebuilding and reforming our public services so they are fit for the next decade.
The Good Web Network is a community spanning government, industry and civil society, collaborating to build a better internet. Together, our network will better understand how we can build an internet that strengthens, rather than threatens, our democracy and our digital rights.
The Collaborative Democracy Network is a new network created by Demos. It is for politicians, policymakers and civil society to come together to discuss innovations that put people at the heart of policy making.
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Demos’ Future Public Services Taskforce has been working over the last year to develop a new cross-cutting public service reform strategy. In May we published our vision for reform, Liberated Public Services: A new vision for citizens, professionals and policy makers. The Summit marks...
The state has got stuck in a rut of servicing the nation’s most acute problems. The post-Beveridge promise, in which the state would step in for short periods of time of worklessness, or to treat short periods of illness,...
We asked Chat GPT whether it was good for democracy, and after assuring us it had no personal opinions on the matter, it said that it could support better access to information and facilitate dialogue, but that it could also...
Recent months have seen a new debate about economic inactivity in the UK, particularly among older workers. It’s a debate at the very top of the political agenda; witness the Chancellor’s recent calls for over 50s to get off the...
Is it possible to create a level playing field for big tech? How can we give consumers better control of their data? What would stricter regulation for digital markets look like? These are some of the questions the new Digital...
With more wealth being transferred across generations through inheritances and gifts, the UK is entering a new ‘age of inheritance’. Yet this wealth will not be distributed equally. This means the UK’s new ‘age of inheritance’ could amplify existing divides,...
Join Demos, in partnership with the group Challenging Pseudoscience at the Royal Institution, for a panel event to discuss how to engage with the fact of scientific uncertainty when tackling misinformation. We’ll discuss how we, as a society, do and...
The next in our Good Web Network series, we will be discussing the question of how tech policy is made. We’ll be asking: what is ‘tech policy’? What are groups that exist within ‘tech policy’? How do we break out...
Relationships are crucial to our social, economic and physical wellbeing. To give two examples: social connections are crucial to finding jobs; loneliness is known to come with significant health risks. Yet too often public services are ‘relationally blind’, interacting with...
Join us on Thursday October 27th at Demos’ offices on Whitehall as we launch the Good Web Network. We’ll be hosting a panel discussion and drinks reception to discuss what role can the UK play in building the Good Web? The...
Public services are in crisis. Backlogs are everywhere, from NHS waiting lists to undecided asylum applications. Frontline staff, managers and civil servants alike are doing their best to respond, and often performing heroically. But the fundamentals of the situation are...
