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Finally got round to re-hosting localgov.blog onto a beefier slice of cloud. Also reworked how emails get sent out of the various blogs etc for new accounts, password resets and so on, which will make things a bit smoother for…
Giles points to a bunch of interesting things, including: Moments – a very bare bones photo sharing thing Lettera – yet another Mac Markdown editor
The Luton team show you can blog about anything, including the rollout of new printers. Over the last few months, the DDaT team have been working on the refresh of the council’s fleet of printers with Ricoh being the new…
This looks useful: Guidance and tools for digital accessibility on GOV.UK.
Following my linkage yesterday to the AI innovation in planning, Tom Loosemore weighs in on the unintended consequences: One worry? Were I to put my mind to the grift, I could easily build a subscription service that would allow anyone…
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…