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It is a story branching game where you have to try and ensure safety of data, citizens and ensure justice .
The winning outcomes of the game are:
Website restored
Ransomware removed
Citizen data protected
ICO notified within 72 hours
Hacker identified and blocked

This game is a simple story game where the player playing gets to make all of the choices throughout the process to determine how they play the game, and these changes affect how the player actually finishes the game.

POV - You have been asked to find something useful for a group of IT Apprentices to do

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?

Forms needn’t be formal, but they do need to be useful

AI is becoming All The Rage. But is it any good for search results?

You've won an award. Time to write your acceptance speech!

In the heady days of the early 2010s it felt like nothing could stop local government digital teams in our quest to bring new online services to citizens, and bring existing services to the fore in new and better ways. By 2017 the shine seemed to have faded from the movement

Applying for a copy of certificates from your council's register office is considerably more painful than it should be. And for online applications, it probably makes more sense to signpost people to the central government General Register Office site.

The Kindle ebook format, Open Data, and real-time information - what else could we use to make council websites more useful to citizens?