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The BBC reports on Dorset Council testing AI to speed up planning applications: Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are being trialled in Dorset to help combat planning application delays. The team of agents is helping Dorset Council planning officers with minor…
Jo Carter – “Your survey is lying to you: uncovering the pitfalls”: A survey is a tempting thing. It looks inviting, it’s free to pick up, yet it can do a surprising amount of damage, especially when people don’t realise…
There is a lot of ERP talk at the moment, particularly in the light of LGR, and so I thought I would ask one of my robot friends to do some research into the state of things at the moment…
I have officially given up on fighting GoDaddy’s customer support and accepted that, for the time being, my locali.se domain is lost to me 😢 So the Localise website is now – and for the foreseeable future – found at…
Great notes on transformation network building from Matt Wood-Hill: Tangible products and artefacts helped build traction. Starting out as a product team gave us a big advantage. In order to co-design digital planning products at scale we had to collaborate…
Jerry Fishenden shares a useful batch of thinking about AI, etc.
This looks jolly interesting – NHS Operating Patterns: Across the NHS, many people are already working differently – they are enacting a more dynamic kind of devolution, in which people collaborate to do great work, anywhere, on behalf of everyone.…
Dave Richardson – From Awareness to Ownership: Our Cyber Journey Since 2023: Since then, the landscape has only become more challenging. Cyber threats are more sophisticated, more frequent, and more impactful across local government, with real-world incidents disrupting services and…
Tom Loosemore updates his classic definition of digital: The digital revolution is still made of 1s and 0s, but plenty has happened in the decade since 2016. Eras are defined by what’s emergent; the big new thing that’s being folded…
DIgitalGov.news is now Sigh. All the old URLs should 301 to the new ones, including the mega RSS feed.
I have received a – to my eyes – absurd cease and desist request (with accompanying threat of “formal action”) from the owners of gov.news because they are worried my single vibe coded page of php digitalgov.news “creates a likelihood…
Thoughtful long read from Rachel Coldicutt: Perhaps this collective hangover will be the thing that makes the AI bubble burst – or at least, start it rolling slowly off the peak of inflated expectations. Lord knows, there is no form…
James O’Malley takes a look at the National Data Library: That’s why everyone from the Minister downwards is talking about what the platform ‘could’ do in the future – and, I assume, why the NDL programme was given £100m last…
The newly launched National Data Library features a really useful ‘Data manual’ – think service manual, but data – which I think lots of local councils will find helpful in developing their own data practice.
I have made a few updates to DigitalGovNews: Added Cumberland Council’s digital team blog, and Matt Wood-Hill’s blog to the list. Made the filter choices persistent between sessions Generated a new “master” RSS feed including all the posts aggregated on…
Adam Wainwright, Senior Content Designer in the GOV.UK Content Operations team writes Launching GOV.UK’s new content and publishing guidance: Around 3,000 people across government publish content on GOV.UK. That’s a significant number of individuals using our tools and writing to…
Dave Richardson of Newark and Sherwood District Council shares his reflections on the recent LGR Camp hosted at the council’s offices: Kate from Cumberland Council had attendees listening intently as she shared some warts and all experiences, though it is…
My friends at Optima Digital Solutions are highlighting a security issue with the Granicus govService platform: On Friday 5th June, the MHCLG sent out a notice to authorities regarding a security advisory identified on the Granicus govService platform. This notice…
My battle with GoDaddy customer support continues over my borked locali.se domain. In the meantime, dave@sensibletech.co.uk will still reach me 😩
Matt Hill-Wood – Co-designing digital planning products at scale: Certain principles were clear: Councils, particularly the people closest to the ‘frontline’ of planning services, need to be as close to product decisions as possible Decisions must be informed by voices…