Local by Social: Networked Innovation

John Hayes from IDeA takes to the platform. IDeA is 11 years old, just like Google 353 authorities, providing 700 services each (in a Unitary authority), 2.1 million people working in local government All these people, services and authorities have things in common – hence the communities of practice Sustainable self-improvement, efficiency and vfm, connecting people to … Keep reading

Local by Social: Andy Gibson

Now it is Andy Gibson’s turn. He wrote the Local by Social book! Andy is hoping to provide some perspective on all the digital stuff As railroads transformed the way we work and our society, so will the new online tools Imagine a London with no public transport. Would be very different, service provision would … Keep reading

Local by Social: Public Service 2.0

Dominic Campbell is first up. Yay! Dom is going to talk about some of the research he has been doing with Harvard University “This isn’t about technology” – too right! New kind of change facing local gov – one that is web enabled Move to communicative governance from new public management – more about people … Keep reading

Local by Social

I’m at the Local by Social event today, being run by FutureGov and the IDeA. It should be a lot of fun, and I’ll let you share in that fun by live blogging as much of the event as I can!