Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Funded projects – round 1
We funded 16 projects in round 1 of the Local Digital Fund. You can read about how we selected the projects here and click on the below links to watch […]
Working in the open
We will embed an open culture that values, incentivises and expects digital ways of working from every member of our workforce. This means working in the open wherever we can, sharing our plans and experience, working collaboratively with other organisations, and reusing good practice.
Releasing up to 389 Local Digital Fund proposals
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.
Local Digital Declaration
Introduction This declaration affirms our collective ambition for local public services in the internet age, and our commitments to realising it. It commits us working on a new scale to: […]
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 […]
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 […]
