An online notebook
Where’s the centre of gravity for conversations about how we can and should be leveraging the digital revolution for the benefit of society through our public services? I think about the flurry of activity when James Plunkett kicked off a debate a few months ago⬈ about ‘local GDS’ or the more recent excitement caused by … Keep reading
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) In the LGA’s recently published white paper on the future of local government, there’s a very interesting line about digital. Just the one line, admittedly, but I think it is fair to say that it is doing a lot of work. We are calling for… [a] Local Government Centre for Digital Technology: … Keep reading
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven’t!), I thought I would follow up on one of my ideas for what I see as the central problems facing local authorities wanting … Keep reading
A bit of feedback from the recent call about the Local Government Digital Quality Model call was that the materials really need to sell the ‘so what’ around all of this. I think there are 2 things here: so what about the model so what about being good at digital, design, data and technology I … Keep reading
This is, by its nature, massively cringe, but I felt it necessary. It’s a video explaining the Local Government Digital Quality Model that I have been working away on in my spare time recently.