Working in the open

This page contains guidance for applying to the Digital Planning Improvement Fund 2024. Below you will find information about the fund, what it is for and the information you will […]

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 […]

Welcome to our digital citizen engagement toolkit which is designed to support local authorities (LAs) in using digital tools for improved consultations and engagement in planning.  Developed with a user-centred […]

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 […]