LOTI is 7 years old and Eddie rightly celebrates, and also teases about the future:

That’s why LOTI is now planning its most ambitious initiative to date: to establish a Centre for New Public Services. The aim is to give boroughs a dedicated, shared space to work alongside the public, third and private sectors to design radical new solutions for unsustainable service models. I’ll be writing more on that topic soon!

LOTI is a sophisticated set-up and it wouldn’t be simple to recreate it in other areas. But starting something like LOTI would be very simple: hire a room, invite some people, have a chat. This happens in other parts of the country other than London – the north-west, particularly – but there’s no reason at all why every region can’t have – at the very least – a online and face to face collaboration network. You never know where it might lead.

Just needs someone to book that room and send those invites!