Missed this first time around, but there’s some interesting stuff to think about in here – Courage is required for GDS Local to succeed.

There is currently both a real opportunity and a grave danger facing local government in England from the confluence of technological and governance considerations. The opportunity is to use the forthcoming governance changes to review the current fragmentation of approaches and consolidate both operating models and their enabling technology stacks. The danger is that the governance changes will absorb the available leadership bandwidth and will actually significantly delay the digital transformation of the local government sector.