Newsletter: Top 6 for your to do and think about list
…2024, as it comes under increasing pressure to cope with new volumes and demands for flexibility and resilience. In many public service organisations, and in the wider communities, where they…
Newsletter: Your guide to Accessibility Week
…whole report. Register to make sure you’ve got a user account. Read this new report Registered for your free Microsoft training? The Microsoft and Socitm Change Agent programme is returning…
Newsletter: Your new and exclusive member-only research
Plus, Microsoft training is back for the last time this year! Your events, training and resources You have 2 new key updates this week. Take a look at: New free…
Digital trends
…bodies, and community organisations, to collaborate on digital solutions that help to build greater local resilience and community response to changing threats of all types. ‘Community resilience’ trend summary for…
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)….
Event roundup: President’s Conference, 12-13 June 2024
…high levels of access to information, communications, personal freedom and choice but faced major challenges on living conditions. A cluster of mainly rural areas scored well on freedom, choice and…
Newsletter: Free training with Microsoft is back (for 2 days) in June
…Solace on a joint submission for the Public Accounts Committee’s call for evidence on the use of AI in government. We’ll all share this when we are able to. Free…
Community resilience
…incidents. The Framework emphasizes the role of LRFs as champions of resilient communities. These are communities where local responders, community groups, businesses, charities, and local leaders not only prepare for…
Smart places, connected places and AI
Socitm’s St George’s House consultation, ‘Towards connected places: insights into actions’, spurs debate on advancing community connectivity and progress, write David Ogden and William Barker On 18 March, a diverse…
Socitm calls on local authorities to learn the lessons – and think long and hard before they use algorithms ….
This comes in the wake of the controversy over the exam grading algorithm and wider calls for more transparency on how such tools are used in public services. The society…
Newsletter: Accessibility ahoy
…to read the whole report. Register to make sure you’ve got a user account. Read this new report Registered for your free Microsoft training? The Microsoft and Socitm Change Agent…
Artificial intelligence (AI): what senior leaders in local government should know
…various systems and solutions. There are immediate applications like Bing enterprise, which allows for generative text answers to complex questions. Additionally, AI is being integrated into SaaS-based offerings, such as…
Responsible use and design
…and focusing on areas in which companies do not have an active commercial interest. New capacities: Civil society organizations need to invest in people who understand both grassroots-level social justice…
Event roundup: Sheffield national conference, 28 February 2024
…Peak District able to access gigabit-capable connections compared with more than twice that in urban areas according to Ofcom research. But while infrastructure is required, it will not be sufficient…
Moving on up to the power in BI
…or comment on how dinky it may be. Each of us take it in turns to compare the relative comfort of the front and back seats. Then finally, after appreciating…
Newsletter: CEO of the Year Nadira Hussain
…of important training news: 1. Free training with Microsoft is back in June Change Agent Manager offers an overview of the key skills needed to be an effective change agent…
Newsletter: DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality
…On the final page it will mention a payment but this is a free event! Click to complete the registration. No payment details will be requested. Register to join the…
Data handling tools
…nearly half planning to invest in new tools.” Source: Computer weekly 2018 55% of an organization’s data is “dark” according to new global research for Splunk by TRUE Global Intelligence….
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…
Newsletter: Taking in the election results
…and education about sustainable practices to empower residents to make informed choices to minimise their ecological impact and promote individual and community resilience. Log in to browse the collection NEW…
Newsletter: Be part of the local government community from your desk
…Mortar: combining new technology with user-led design to create solutions to real-world problems Plinth: a Community Impact Platform that connects data from different organisations to help community programmes deliver and…
Nations and regions news, September 2024
…cloud-based version of the supplier’s newer S/4HANA software, which director of digital Leonard Tantari says will be more secure and has new functions. West Midlands The West Midlands Combined Authority…
Prime Minister, let local public services providers get on with it
…respond to the needs of their communities. Sitting alongside this is more collaboration. Local public services providers are well aware that it takes communities to support communities. Socitm Connects We…