UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Laying the foundations for better local public services
We will ‘fix the plumbing’ to break our dependence on inflexible and expensive technology that doesn’t join up effectively. This means insisting on modular building blocks for the IT we rely on, and open standards to give a common structure to the data we create.
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) will explain how they are using artificial intelligence (AI), automation and digital transformation to power and enable innovative, automated and integrated digital services. The council will […]
Join techUK as they put the spotlight on local government tech innovations, reflect on the digital trends of the past year and make their predictions for 2024.
This has been an important, madly busy week for our new Local Digital Collaboration Unit. In just a 2-week period, we received 389 unique expressions of interest in running collaborative Local Digital Fund projects from 171 organisations. Taking open to the whole next level, our next next task is to publish the whole lot on our website.
The Declaration was co-published with 45 organisations on 4 July 2018. This is our ambition for local public services, and our commitment to making it happen. We are a collective […]
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 […]
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 […]
