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An online notebook
The Local Digital team at MHCLG is running a webinar to talk about the playbook we have been developing which guides digital teams through what they need to do during the creation of the new unitary councils. It’s on April…
Interesting perspective on Ai generated software from Quentin Stafford-Fraser: As we enter an era where software development is much cheaper and easier, the number of people able to create their own bespoke apps will increase rapidly. Either you’ll do it,…
Cloudflare have released a new open source CMS, that they are billing as the “spiritual successor” to WordPress. Unsurprisingly, Matt Mullenweg has views: The UI is in the uncanny valley of being sorta-WordPress sorta-not. I know it wasn’t a weekend…
The team at Luton are experimenting in publishing project based week notes on their public blog.
Catherine Howe on her philosophical approach to working with AI models: I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to help people get started with AI. Not the technical side — there are plenty of people better placed than me…
Following the announcements last week of the shape of local government arrangements in various areas, I’ve had to rethink things a bit. The move is clearly towards merging and empowering districts over centralising into unitary counties. This means an increase…
Alan Wright’s Definitions of Done Checklist.
Will Callaghan shares A new flatpack collaborative model for the public sector: The goal was to identify a ‘flatpack model’ which would make collaboration as easy as going it alone. There are currently 317 councils in England still building or…
Giles Turnbull on AI: I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.
A new entry in the Digital LGR Playbook has been published: Disaggregating services and data. Feels like, following the announcements last week, that we will need to write a lot more on disaggregation as it seems like single-unitary counties are…
How the Mac changed computing forever:
When Nick and I started planning LGRCamp, we knew we wanted the audience to be local government folk only – plus a smattering of other bits of the public sector who have an interest. Of course there are suppliers who…
Really nice in depth case study looking at how Milton Keynes City Council transformed their planning services, using Arcus Global’s tech: Legacy back-office systems are holding many planning departments back—slowing processes, frustrating staff, and limiting the ability to deliver efficient,…
Richard Pope – Unified inboxes, streams and augmentation: The idea of a unified inbox for government is not a new one. Many governments around the world have developed one, as have public organisations like the National Health Service in England,…
Giles Turnbull points to Signboard, a kanban board app that saves data in plain text files. Neat!
Colin Stenning has updated his survey of what content management systems are used across local government – this time, with maps!
New resource added to the digital LGR playbook by the team – Cyber readiness. Ensuring a new unitary council can protect data, detect threats, maintain secure access, and keep critical services running from day one.
Terence Eden – How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?: When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is…
I don’t entirely understand this, but it sure is interesting: With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser. There’s no sign-up, no hosting plan, and no domain decision standing between you and getting started. Built on WordPress Playground,…
Good news – New pilot to help councils identify and support residents at risk to vulnerability earlier: Local Digital is pleased to share that the Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability (SAVVI) and Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standards are…