What shall we do with the IT Apprentices? POV - You have been asked to find something useful for a group of IT Apprentices to do 28 September 2026
Should the council have an online account? Do citizens really want to check the progress of their pothole report, so should we spend a lot of time, effort, and money enabling them to? 27 July 2026
Collecting your award - a creative visioning exercise You've won an award. Time to write your acceptance speech! 6 March 2026
Can we trust our Copilot summary? Part two - an analysis Looking at the summary of the previous article and seeing how accurate it was 9 September 2024
Can we trust our Copilot summary? Part one - the issues Copilot cannot understand your text. What makes you think it can summarise it accurately? 9 September 2024
Agile for Local Government - from the skateboard to the car The point of a Minimum Useable Product is the user is supposed to be able to use it. People often forget that. 8 August 2024
What is local government actually for? We have (roughly) 350 local councils all doing more or less the same things in the same way. Is there a better way to do this? 2 July 2024
Council online petitions Most council digital strategies say don't replicate content or functionality provided elsewhere. I think we should however be running our own e-petitions services 5 June 2024