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Browse project applications from Rounds 1 to 3 of the Local Digital Fund. Since Round 4, we no longer publish all applications on our website. However, you can find applications for successful projects on their individual project pages.

TRO data model alpha

Council name: Department for Transport

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

Background - Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) are the orders behind restrictions on the road network, giving legal force to temporary closures for roadworks or permanent changes. In an ongoing review of how to simplify and improve the processes behind making a TRO, the Department established the TRO Discovery Project -…

True user value of AI Voice Technology

Council name: Newcastle City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North of Tyne Combined Authority (inc Northumberland County Council), Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Sunderland City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Chatbots, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability

There has been a growth in the availability and use of AI Voice technology, e.g. Google Voice / Amazon Alexa, within the service industry, e.g. 1 in 10 British citizens now own such a device (YouGov). Research shows this is to grow, with more devices becoming AI Voice enabled and an increase in…

Understanding digital exclusion and inclusion in Local Government

Council name: South Tyneside Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Bedford Borough Council, Durham Council, Gateshead Borough Council, Sunderland City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability

We would like to learn more about digital skills, exclusion and inclusion in relation to local government digital services and understand how to reduce non-participation and improve the delivery of those services in ways that put users first. Existing data is often out of date, at local authority level, and…

User-centred back office planning system to unlock transformation

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: London Borough of Hackney, GLA, Future Cities Catapult

Status: Funded

Themes: Housing/Planning, Planning applications

Planning services are dependent on proprietary solutions that are developing slowly and resistant to interoperability. The market is dominated by just two providers. This software does not meet the aspirations set out in the Local Digital Declaration. The commercial incentives to support innovation are low. The practical problems associated with…

Using Analytics and AI to Aid the Production of EHCPs

Council name: Ealing Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Staffordshire county Council, and Suffolk Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Children services

Having ‘blueprinted’ the SEN Assessment process it is apparent that applying digital processes, analytics and AI that the production of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) can be greatly enhanced. A new system would: Allow schools direct input and assessment of need. Allow and monitor assessments and be a single…

Visualising Failure in Waste Services

Council name: North East Lincolnshire Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Leeds City Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Waste

Missed bin reports are a problem to all LAs that have responsibility for them. The impact is customer contact through whatever channel, some of which is real and some through residents not observing the terms and conditions of the service. Understanding the true picture is difficult and makes informative action…

Visualising missed collection performance to enable waste management to make decisions and intervene to improve the service and relationship with communities

Council name: North East Lincolnshire Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Leeds City Council, North Lincolnshire Council, Ryedale District Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Understanding the wider scale of opportunity by engaging across multiple local authorities to test appetite for adoption of our previous Alpha proposal and resulting prototype.  Exploring the ICT landscape and estate of each authority and what that says about the national picture. Exploring the larger procurement landscape, plans and costs…

White Label - Council Website

Council name: Leeds City Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Local government as a platform

Web site and service design is a resource intensive and costly exercise across local authorities. Many authorities lack resources to do the work in house, relying on third party suppliers and products to plug the gaps. Providing standardised and thoroughly tested user interface designs considerably lowers the barriers for in-house…

Why can't we use that cloud system?

Council name: Harlow Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

There are so many major open source products available but the vast majority of councils continue to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on traditional services from the traditional companies like ‘Microsoft Office” as an example. We could be using Gmail/GSuite or other software and this is just one example.…

Work with me - an accessible online platform for people with LD and their support networks

Council name: Cambridgeshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: LGSS, Peterborough City Council, Peterborough City College, Thera, Papworth Trust, Speak out council, Switch Now, Princes Trust

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Content management system, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Independent and assistive living

There are many problems to solve when it comes to helping people with Learning Disabilities (LD) and / or additional needs find employment.  The particular problems we are trying to solve with this bid are – people with LD don’t always know what options are available to them after education…

Young people, digital media and councils.

Council name: Hastings Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

Our initial research suggests there is currently a gap between young people, particularly aged 16-24, and their local councils. For the Discovery phase we are focusing on young people and their lack of interaction with local councils. Local councils should, in theory, be approachable, the most tangible and most trustworthy…