Light blogging recently – partly due to starting a new contract, and partly due to the fact that I am just back from a lovely week by the seaside. Didn’t venture too far, just an hour ... https://ift.tt/eaucHWj
Dave Briggs
@da.vebrig.gs
Local government loving digital pragmatist. https://da.vebrig.gs/
If anyone here has been a user of the LocalGovDigitial Slack group, well, we are moving! The new place is over here: community.localgov.digital and is very welcoming! Public sector (and adjacent) only for now, I’m afraid.
LocalGovDigital
community.localgov.digital
Coined a new (to me!) phrase today: “performative project management”. Can see myself using it a lot from now on! https://ift.tt/hHa9oTq
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 ... https://ift.tt/AizdmLc
This looks quite interesting: London Productivity Library. A productivity tool from LOTI, for any organisation to deploy. A curated collection of prompts, workflows, productivity tips, and AI ass... https://ift.tt/d5Vl9tO
Another great update on the low code platform rollout at Luton, from Kev Rowe: A key principle of our low code platform approach is to build reusable components that can support multiple services.... https://ift.tt/aLHqsz7
Sucharitha Revanuru from the Essex Digital Service team writes From Bananas to Better Outcomes: Taking Product Thinking to the LGD Community: Like many digital teams, one of our biggest lessons ha... https://ift.tt/5CVuHMh
I don’t know why I enjoy aggressively sceptical posts about AI so much, but I do. Here’s a doozy: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making: There have been several occasions whe... https://ift.tt/csWrTgH
Matt Cain – The Architecture of Effective Digital Government Centres: Over the last eighteen months a distinct cohort of governments has produced fast measurable gains in digital government.... https://ift.tt/84xJMjF
Ronan Fitzgerald on the Justice Digital, Data and Science blog writes How user research transformed GOV.UK guidance for separating families: Thousands of people use guidance on child arrangements e... https://ift.tt/fDW7RB9
TPX Impact have published a “Market-shaping playbook for policymakers”: Market-shaping is the practice of designing and delivering interventions that make a public service market produ... https://ift.tt/UKocPdh
Via Jukesie – the Department for Education’s Product management principles. https://ift.tt/2gCoKcl
Kailani Knight – The Certainty Principles: Accessibility work often feels chaotic. Every new project seems to start from scratch. Every person who flags a barrier is treated like a unique puz... https://ift.tt/l12otqJ
On the MHCLG Digital blog – Building Local Transcribe for local government: Local Transcribe is a new AI-powered tool designed to change that by capturing conversations, transcribing and sum... https://ift.tt/pl8RXU3
Ben Welby helpfully summarises a lot of the chatter about where all the digital stuff in government is going following the decision to break up DSIT. https://ift.tt/YEwMCJc
Johnny Williams – No Ivory Towers Here Please (LinkedIn warning): What DSIT hasn’t done is build sovereign and resilient digital infrastructure below that GOV.UK front door. Standardis... https://ift.tt/xFlMNiC
MySociety asks Robots and councils: how is AI being used by local government – and what can we find out about it? Artificial Intelligence, as we know, is everywhere. For governments and public bod... https://ift.tt/OLEic0z
James Plunkett publishes a long read on approaches to education (Medium warning). It’s well worth your time. Really like this in the concluding paragraphs: The challenges facing public servi... https://ift.tt/KgTSZ3v
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 th... https://ift.tt/iUqfXFv
More new content on the LGR digital playbook! This time, it’s quite a long read on commercial, contract and supplier considerations during reorganisation. This quote from a local gov person i... https://ift.tt/6ewTAb0
The Government has announced the shape of the latest batch of new unitary councils across the county: Gloucestershire: 7 councils being reorganised into 1 unitary. This will unite the Gloucester-... https://ift.tt/1CZ9UAR
Macrows is a desktop Airtable clone for the Mac. It’s nice! https://ift.tt/WHhBnEw
How lovely not to have to worry about England winning the World Cup any more.
Seems a little naive to think the tactics that worked against Norway and Mexico would also work against this Argentina side 🤷♂️
An open working masterclass from Cumberland Council: Running a show and tell? ✅ Recording it so others can watch it? ✅ Publishing it on your intranet? ✅ The area of the intranet that anyone on the... https://ift.tt/f7rc4VY
WhatCable is a simple, free Mac app to tell you wha the USB-C cable is that you have plugged in. Can it carry data? How much wattage is it capable of? WhatCable explains cable speed, charging lim... https://ift.tt/X69waRz
LOTI is 7 years old and Eddie rightly celebrates, and also teases about the future: That’s why LOTI is now planning its most ambitious initiative to date: to establish a Centre for New Public Serv... https://ift.tt/PXhFlZK
Cathy Dutton – The portal trap: When portals are treated as containers they fail. You can’t cover up the complexity, and attempting to do so just adds another layer of abstraction and ... https://ift.tt/iNEd1k0