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Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
📅 Daily Note: October 21, 2025
Sarah and Carl are taking up the reigns of LocalGovDigital – a Slack-based networks of digital practitioners in local government, and I’m stepping down. I think they’ll do a great job and am really excited about what they will be…
📅 Daily note for 2 July 2024
Kiasmos⬈ have been providing some of my favourite beepy-boopy music of recent times. They have a newish album out⬈, which is excellent. My favourite track of theirs, though, is still Looped⬈ from their 2015 debut album: # We had the…
🔗 Some links I’ve spotted recently
I sent out a newsletter today and included these links at the bottom. Popping them here for posterity…
Share your stuff with LocalGov Digital!
I’m well chuffed to have joined the steering group for LocalGov Digital, the informal network of bods doing interesting stuff with computers, the internet and change within local councils. I’m leading on communication and am kicking off a few pieces…
Why some centralising of local gov digital is needed
An ongoing debate this. Ben Proctor has had his say recently, and it feels fairly sensible. There are two issues at stake here – one is whether some kind of ‘GDS’ for local government is needed; second is whether we…