Get to London for your next conference day (People make) Sustainable and Innovative Places on Thursday 10 October

Towards connected places: Insights into actions

…George’s House who helped deliver two days of stimulating insights, reflection, and debate. Links Download this report (PDF) (St. George’s House) Read the background paper (PDF) (St George’s House) Socitm…

Yorkshire & Humber

…themed meetings your regional committee is free to create an agenda that works best for you and your regional colleagues. If there’s something you would like to discuss or investigate…

Yorkshire & Humber

…themes. Within these themed meetings your regional committee is free to create an agenda that works best for you and your regional colleagues. If there’s something you would like to…

Newsletter: How do you find remote/hybrid working?

…productivity. On Tuesday, experts from Microsoft will lead a briefing into M365 Copilot featuring live demos, practical guidance on prompts and a little look into some of the more complicated…

In Our View, issue 40 (Focus)

…delivery event held in Birmingham on 5 October. View the slides from the event in the agenda on the event page (PDF download buttons are only visible when logged in)….

Societal ethics

…environmental/energy footprints of digital tools, and wider issue of social inclusion. Responding to the challenge The rise of Smart Information Systems (SIS; the combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big…

Digital ethics in context

…of social inclusion. Image: Socitm digital ethics interconnection. Download this graphic as a pdf These three categories of ethical focus are of course interconnected, but (as outlined in the other…

Introduction from the authors

…the digital ethics principles and resources being developed across the international community Emerging principles and common values: Outlines the emerging international principles and common values Ethical framework for smart information…

Newsletter: 42 hours of meetings and training in 1 week

…Northumberland County Council to create inclusive documents. Skip to these highlights/chapters (with approx. timings): 03:42 Steps to building an accessibility culture 11:13 Are my documents accessible? [Download PDF Accessibility Checker]…

Socitm 2023: The year in review

…and examples from and for people who are supporting communities with local public services. Stories come from peers worldwide about the challenges of recruitment and retention, the role of local…

Digital inclusion for local government and education

…actions you can do now to improve digital inequity within your organisation and community: Connect Join an existing community to hear and share effective practice: Accessibility and assistive technology communities…

Planting the Flag: a new local normal

…document here: https://socitm.net/download/planting-the-flag-a-new-local-normal/ About LOLA www.lola-ict.org Linked Organisation of Local Authority ICT Societies -a non-profit organisation of international ICT professional associations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, UK…

Sample corporate policy for use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

…the use of GenAI. This guidance has been prepared by ALGIM (Aotearoa – New Zealand) and Socitm (UK). www.algim.org.nz www.socitm.net Please submit any comments, suggestions and experiences to: martin.ferguson@socitm.net ceo@algim.org.nz…