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An online notebook
I love stories like this. Luton’s Hazel Lunn shares the low down on her career in local government, from working in the contact centre to now heading up technology and infrastructure for the Council: When I first joined local government…
I’m just finishing up my work with Luton Council. It’s been a great experience, and I feel I’ve learned a load along the way, whilst really helping catalyse the shift there to a modern digital service. I worked for between…
Another update from the Luton low code team on building out a system for managing complaints and other feedback. Have seen this in action and it is really impressive. More impressive, in fact, than Kev’s joke. Part of the difficulty…
I am LOVING Kev Rowe’s continued blogging about the low-code digital platform development at Luton, some of the thinking behind it, and how it ties in with the corporate strategy for the town: … we’re building towards a more complete…
Kev Rowe is continuing to blog the progress of implementing the Netcall Liberty Create low code platform at Luton Council. It’s been a practical sprint, getting the essentials in place so the team can build quickly to a good standard…
The team at Luton are experimenting in publishing project based week notes on their public blog.
Another great hire at Luton – welcome to James Bovington, joining as principal developer in the newly formed digital team. James is one of the most ingenious and thoughtful devs I’ve come across, so it’s fabulous having him on the…
Lovely to see the new people joining the team in Luton, and introducing themselves on the blog. Welcome to my old pal Kev Rowe 😀
Another Tuesday posting! Weeks are flying by. I guess this is part of getting older. That and getting increasingly bad at remembering, well, anything. This week’s worky highlights: The publication of the LGR DDaT playbook has been postponed for a…
Carol from the team at Luton blogs about the new telephony system implementation: When we kicked this off, it wasn’t just because our old Avaya system was outdated; it was because colleagues were struggling with tools that didn’t support how…
New post from Atika on the Luton blog – Full steam ahead! New posts filled, skills assessments, meeting room envy, change agents and champions and AI Club. What a start to 2026!
Let’s see how long I can keep this up for! This week’s worky highlights: We are recruting for two big roles at Luton Head of Innovation Delivery and Data Deputy Data Protection Officer & Compliance Improvement Manager Also at Luton,…
Gavin Beckett – Harnessing the changing landscape of local government to create internet era organisations: Effective responses to complex, long-standing social challenges need to be co-designed and co-produced with people and community organisations that grow from the ground up. Modern…
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…
Whoops, forgot to hit publish on Friday. # Another kerr-azy week of having too much to do and too little time and energy to do it. # A short post I put up on LinkedIn (and published here and on…