This week, in partnership with the Local Government Association. LocalGov Digital launched our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practitioners Group. The group sits alongside the Local Government Association’s AI Network, and whilst there’s absolutely a need to talk about ethics, data and…
We’re excited to be launching a new survey to explore the take-up and effectiveness of the Service Standard in councils. Created five years ago, the Standard has been helping teams within central government to create and run great public services…
The third LocalGovDigital Live! event featured Tom Styles who showed us all some work he has been doing with councils in Northern Ireland. This involved embedding javascript into otherwise static web pages – enabling interactive content to sit alongside information…
We held our second LocalGovDigital Live! event yesterday, a discussion session covering the thorny topic of whether some kind of centralised support team for digital in local government might be useful – the so-called ‘Local GDS’. We were graced with…
It’s fair to say there’s a lot of interest in artificial intelligence at the moment, driven first by the novelty and ease of use of services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and then the increasing integration of Microsoft’s Copilot with their other…
We are looking for enthusiastic local government digital people to join our steering group. You’ll help shape the future of the network, and get stuck into making things happen for and with our members. Closing date is Friday 15th March,…
OK, so we aren’t making a huge fuss about this, because this website isn’t exactly the most exciting development in the world of local government digital innovation. But it is an important one, and it’s something worth marking with a…