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Future Councils: Meet our 8 pilot councils
Local Digital: 2022 in review
In this blog post, we want to celebrate some of our highlights from 2022 and provide an insight of what’s to come in 2023.
Meet the Local Digital team: Paul Tait, Delivery Manager
Future Councils: Delivering pathways for councils to become modern and resilient organisations
Celebrating four years of the Local Digital Declaration
What we learned from the Local Digital Roadshow 2022
Council Spotlight: How the Task Smart App is helping councils to tackle more than 160 common tasks
Tom Lowndes (Local Digital Collaboration Manager) shares an update on the progress of the Task Smart App funded project, led by Colchester Borough Council. This beta project is developing a platform that will enable tasks and requests logged online by customers to route directly to council officers working in the field.
Building confidence and expertise in local government for successful digital transformation
In March this year, we teamed up with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Institute to jointly deliver a virtual programme for local government at no cost.
Exciting next steps for Local Digital and Cyber
The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backed by multi-year funding to the tune of £85 million.
Reflections on my time as the Head of Local Digital
In this blog post, I want to reflect back on the lessons learnt and achievements, such as bringing local authorities together to solve common challenges, and in particular how a group of local authorities and suppliers are cooperating together to deliver an open source solution.
Council Spotlight: Achieving for Children
For this edition of the Council Spotlight, we are highlighting Achieving for Children — a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three councils.