Giles Turnbull on AI: I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.

A new entry in the Digital LGR Playbook has been published: Disaggregating services and data. Feels like, following the announcements last week, that we will need to write a lot more on disaggregation as it seems like single-unitary counties are…

How the Mac changed computing forever:

When Nick and I started planning LGRCamp, we knew we wanted the audience to be local government folk only – plus a smattering of other bits of the public sector who have an interest. Of course there are suppliers who…

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,…

Richard Pope – Unified inboxes, streams and augmentation: The idea of a unified inbox for government is not a new one. Many governments around the world have developed one, as have public organisations like the National Health Service in England,…

Giles Turnbull points to Signboard, a kanban board app that saves data in plain text files. Neat!

Colin Stenning has updated his survey of what content management systems are used across local government – this time, with maps!

New resource added to the digital LGR playbook by the team – Cyber readiness. Ensuring a new unitary council can protect data, detect threats, maintain secure access, and keep critical services running from day one.

Terence Eden – How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?: When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is…