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Our research to help councils with their coronavirus response
The team conducted extensive desk research into how councils across England are communicating their COVID-19 support to residents. Find out more about our approach and what we discovered.
COVID-19 recovery: Looking at the future local digital landscape with councils
Over the last 6 weeks, the Local Digital team has run weekly Friday calls to facilitate discussions across local authorities, as teams respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Lessons learnt from the first Local Digital Collaboration Roadshows
In this blog post, we’ll share some reflections from our first roadshow, which visited 5 cities across the UK throughout June and July. The events aimed to inform our plans […]
Delivering on the Declaration wiki-style
It’s been an epic week for our budding #LocalDigital Collaboration Unit (LDCU). Wednesday saw the culmination of 6 months of workshopping and text drafting with hundreds of collaborators to launch […]
Why MHCLG is backing a local government digital revolution
Today we at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) are delighted to announce that we’re co-publishing a Local Digital Declaration. It’s a shared vision for the future of […]
The local digital collaboration mission at MHCLG
It’s notoriously difficult to scale innovation around the local public sector. Technology designed for one local authority doesn’t just slide neatly into another, because council systems speak different languages and […]
