Dave Briggs

Interesting post on the Public Digital blog from Gavin Beckett – Three ways to build intelligence-era digital and tech services in local government: When we speak to digital, data and technol... https://ift.tt/zOHUNaf

Love this show and tell from the team at Cumberland, demonstrating how they digitised and improved a previously Excel based finance process. Great work, and great sharing! https://ift.tt/owmNLuM

Nice update from Jayvik about the advances the digital team in Luton have been making across the development of their LocalGovDrupal website and low code digital services build. One interesting dev... https://ift.tt/vbYBHVk

Is it international break time, by any chance?

Still very light blogging – work is intense at the moment! Good, but intense. But today I came across Fibery – which is like Miro, but crossed with Airtable and already I can think of l... https://ift.tt/Q2pyEKk

Thanks to Tom Watson’s post about A TechFreedom startup stack, I came across Baserow, which looks like a very well featured, slightly cheaper, open source based alternative to AirTable. Handy! https://ift.tt/WdsoCki

Just sent round the first LocalGovDigital community email newsletter, which goes to everyone signed up for our new online network 😀 Have a read of the web version to see what you are missing! If ... https://ift.tt/uUlg1BL

Light blogging recently – partly due to starting a new contract, and partly due to the fact that I am just back from a lovely week by the seaside. Didn’t venture too far, just an hour ... https://ift.tt/eaucHWj

If anyone here has been a user of the LocalGovDigitial Slack group, well, we are moving! The new place is over here: community.localgov.digital and is very welcoming! Public sector (and adjacent) only for now, I’m afraid.

Does anyone I know use Beeper? www.beeper.com

Coined a new (to me!) phrase today: “performative project management”. Can see myself using it a lot from now on! https://ift.tt/hHa9oTq

I love stories like this. Luton’s Hazel Lunn shares the low down on her career in local government, from working in the contact centre to now heading up technology and infrastructure for the ... https://ift.tt/AizdmLc

This looks quite interesting: London Productivity Library. A productivity tool from LOTI, for any organisation to deploy. A curated collection of prompts, workflows, productivity tips, and AI ass... https://ift.tt/d5Vl9tO

Another great update on the low code platform rollout at Luton, from Kev Rowe: A key principle of our low code platform approach is to build reusable components that can support multiple services.... https://ift.tt/aLHqsz7

Sucharitha Revanuru from the Essex Digital Service team writes From Bananas to Better Outcomes: Taking Product Thinking to the LGD Community: Like many digital teams, one of our biggest lessons ha... https://ift.tt/5CVuHMh

I don’t know why I enjoy aggressively sceptical posts about AI so much, but I do. Here’s a doozy: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making: There have been several occasions whe... https://ift.tt/csWrTgH

Matt Cain – The Architecture of Effective Digital Government Centres: Over the last eighteen months a distinct cohort of governments has produced fast measurable gains in digital government.... https://ift.tt/84xJMjF

Ronan Fitzgerald on the Justice Digital, Data and Science blog writes How user research transformed GOV.UK guidance for separating families: Thousands of people use guidance on child arrangements e... https://ift.tt/fDW7RB9

TPX Impact have published a “Market-shaping playbook for policymakers”: Market-shaping is the practice of designing and delivering interventions that make a public service market produ... https://ift.tt/UKocPdh

Via Jukesie – the Department for Education’s Product management principles. https://ift.tt/2gCoKcl

Kailani Knight – The Certainty Principles: Accessibility work often feels chaotic. Every new project seems to start from scratch. Every person who flags a barrier is treated like a unique puz... https://ift.tt/l12otqJ

On the MHCLG Digital blog – Building Local Transcribe for local government: Local Transcribe is a new AI-powered tool designed to change that by capturing conversations, transcribing and sum... https://ift.tt/pl8RXU3

Ben Welby helpfully summarises a lot of the chatter about where all the digital stuff in government is going following the decision to break up DSIT. https://ift.tt/YEwMCJc

Johnny Williams – No Ivory Towers Here Please (LinkedIn warning): What DSIT hasn’t done is build sovereign and resilient digital infrastructure below that GOV.UK front door. Standardis... https://ift.tt/xFlMNiC

MySociety asks Robots and councils: how is AI being used by local government – and what can we find out about it? Artificial Intelligence, as we know, is everywhere. For governments and public bod... https://ift.tt/OLEic0z

James Plunkett publishes a long read on approaches to education (Medium warning). It’s well worth your time. Really like this in the concluding paragraphs: The challenges facing public servi... https://ift.tt/KgTSZ3v

Matt Wood-Hill continues to blog his thoughts on his time in government working on digital planning. This is a useful reflection on how central government best works with local: ODP starts from th... https://ift.tt/iUqfXFv

More new content on the LGR digital playbook! This time, it’s quite a long read on commercial, contract and supplier considerations during reorganisation. This quote from a local gov person i... https://ift.tt/6ewTAb0

The Government has announced the shape of the latest batch of new unitary councils across the county: Gloucestershire: 7 councils being reorganised into 1 unitary. This will unite the Gloucester-... https://ift.tt/1CZ9UAR

Macrows is a desktop Airtable clone for the Mac. It’s nice! https://ift.tt/WHhBnEw

How lovely not to have to worry about England winning the World Cup any more.

2018 clearly doesn’t count for some people! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Seems a little naive to think the tactics that worked against Norway and Mexico would also work against this Argentina side 🤷‍♂️

An open working masterclass from Cumberland Council: Running a show and tell? ✅ Recording it so others can watch it? ✅ Publishing it on your intranet? ✅ The area of the intranet that anyone on the... https://ift.tt/f7rc4VY

WhatCable is a simple, free Mac app to tell you wha the USB-C cable is that you have plugged in. Can it carry data? How much wattage is it capable of? WhatCable explains cable speed, charging lim... https://ift.tt/X69waRz

LOTI is 7 years old and Eddie rightly celebrates, and also teases about the future: That’s why LOTI is now planning its most ambitious initiative to date: to establish a Centre for New Public Serv... https://ift.tt/PXhFlZK

Cathy Dutton – The portal trap: When portals are treated as containers they fail. You can’t cover up the complexity, and attempting to do so just adds another layer of abstraction and ... https://ift.tt/iNEd1k0

England’s midfield: misfortune and mistakes daveb.fyi/2026/07/13/eng…

A few people have asked if the work on the existing Service Standard affects the Local Government Digital Standard. Yes and no! First up, read the post. It’s good and it looks like the Servic... https://ift.tt/QJOFeby

Have been using Dropover this week, and it’s great. A Mac app that pops up a little shelf for you to drop whatever you are currently dragging onto, so you can then find the place you want to ... https://ift.tt/Xgv2kus

Laura points to this post on how to build a community calendar, and there’s some interesting stuff in there. I wonder if some of it would be useful for the ORUK crowd? But the choice of tech... https://ift.tt/NkP349a

As if by magic, the mighty Will has also posted on improving local government software today, and I heartily recommend you taking a few minutes out to read what he has to say. Rather than cover ev... https://ift.tt/A0cLQEx

There’s ongoing talk about one of the things holding back digital in local government being the lack of quality in the software market, and there is work ongoing at MHCLG, Local GDS, and R... https://ift.tt/e983bka

Steve Messer – Is testing and learning a methodology or a core skill?: Experimentation and adaption is only mentioned in the Agile and Lean section, and only in the context of ways of workin... https://ift.tt/dTiltBy

The obvious thing to do in this Clacton by election surely is to ignore it. No one else stand, and make the whole thing look even more ridiculous than it already does.

New resource on the digital LGR playbook – Priorities at each phase of reorganisation: This resource sets out common phases councils that have been through LGR have experienced. It is not a ... https://ift.tt/svoepY4

I’m just finishing up my work with Luton Council. It’s been a great experience, and I feel I’ve learned a load along the way, whilst really helping catalyse the shift there to a modern digital serv... https://ift.tt/uqArin1

Tom Loosemore – Prompt injection and the perils of leaving it to AI to handle AI: A petition filed to a Brazilian labour court contained hidden instructions for any AI used by the court to c... https://ift.tt/PDCbWuo

Tinydot looks like a fun little service. A Mac app sits on your computer watching a folder. Anything you put into that folder appears on your Tinydot site, as if by magic! Markdown files, photos, e... https://ift.tt/nVfq5BY

Matt Billingsley from Content Design London – What 6 FOI requests reveal about government campaign websites: Departments treated these websites as communications products rather than service... https://ift.tt/qIhLi85