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An online notebook
Matt Wood-Hill continues to blog his thoughts on his time in government working on digital planning. This is a useful reflection on how central government best works with local: ODP starts from the premise that those working at the coalface…
Following my linkage yesterday to the AI innovation in planning, Tom Loosemore weighs in on the unintended consequences: One worry? Were I to put my mind to the grift, I could easily build a subscription service that would allow anyone…
The BBC reports on Dorset Council testing AI to speed up planning applications: Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are being trialled in Dorset to help combat planning application delays. The team of agents is helping Dorset Council planning officers with minor…
Great notes on transformation network building from Matt Wood-Hill: Tangible products and artefacts helped build traction. Starting out as a product team gave us a big advantage. In order to co-design digital planning products at scale we had to collaborate…
Matt Hill-Wood – Co-designing digital planning products at scale: Certain principles were clear: Councils, particularly the people closest to the ‘frontline’ of planning services, need to be as close to product decisions as possible Decisions must be informed by voices…
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,…
Simon Millier from Adur & Worthing Councils reports on progress with open digital planning (Medium warning): It’s been a busy and productive period for our multi-disciplinary team. As usual we’re balancing the Open Digital Planning project alongside day-to-day business as…
We’re working to find out what a digital planning application service would look like if it were “so good, people prefer to use it”. However, one of the early things we learnt was that high quality data is the key…
There are bigger issues at work: software that does not reflect the needs of its users, a Planning Portal that does not collect as much data in a useful form as it could, and teams who might benefit from tapping…
I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time. I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed,…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: What should a UK Open Government Partnership Forum look like? : Tim’s Blog – "Open spaces events across that whole UK that provide access for all ages are key to an…
Drawing together a few discussions I have been involved in recently about the different types of documents an organisation – such as a council – might need to put together to define its approach to engaging online, I thought it…
I’m doing some work at the minute putting together the agenda for Tuesday’s socia media shindig in Coventry for members of the IDeA Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice (…and breathe). It can be tricky keeping an eye…