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There are just 3 key things for you today:
1. Accessibility Week
Daily webinars, to help you get better at supporting yourself, colleagues and service users, start on Monday 13 May
2. 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 – with a strong emphasis on the ability to lead change. Register now so you can take part on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 June.
3. President’s Conference is in 4 and a half weeks!
It will go quickly – register now 🙂
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to feel inspired, connected, and equipped to deal with whatever the future holds. As well as conference passes your organisation may have seats for the President’s gala dinner and even hotel rooms. Log in for your details.
Take care. I hope you’re able to have a great weekend.
Best wishes,
Alex.
Your Resource Hub
From Digital Trends 2024: Geospatial technologies
It is debatable whether this theme is a ‘digital’ or a ‘technology’ trend, but for this 2024 report we added it to ‘technology’ because it comprises some key technologies utilising data related to place and space.
Over recent years our reports have assessed the opportunities of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, gaming technologies and ‘digital twins’. All of these technologies continue to gain ground with an increasing number of applications in public services.
NEW in AI@Socitm: Skills and Competences
Event: Creating repeatable digital solutions for the public sector: Simply Readable
Learning: Five Part Microsoft AI Learning Companion
Report: AI Adoption in the UK’s Public Sector
Want to add your own content? Let us know on hello@socitm.net or use the contact us form [choose Research as your area of interest].
Let’s help each other connect the dots.
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Watch the webinar: The move towards the adoption of Cyber Assessment Framework principles is getting closer, but are you ready?
90% of organisations have experienced an identity-related breach! Are you one of them?!
For ease of viewing, the recording is divided into easy to navigate chapters, with subtitles and transcript available via the video player toolbar.
Accessibility and inclusion
Accessibility Week returns in May. Get better at supporting yourself, colleagues and service users.
- Monday 13 May: Introduction to digital accessibility
- Tuesday 14 May: Helping bridge the disability divide with Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Wednesday 15 May: Why we connect more with companies that care
- Thursday 16 May: The secret reasons why your website might be undermining your reputation
- Friday 17 May: Supporting diversity and inclusion through Microsoft and the web
Log in to check your Silktide Score and to complete your Digital Accessibility Maturity Assessment.
You will need a user account on socitm.net to access member-only resources. Let us know if need any support.
Training
Emma Macquarrie has recently completed the Empowering Women course:
“I was afraid that I would be surrounded by many inspiring women who were going places, and I would feel out of my depth!“
Read all about it her new Q&A. How was your course? Tell us about it 🙂
Emma and her colleague Irene Docherty are our guests for the next alumni coffee hour on Friday 10 May. They’re going to talk about the Importance of development even in austere times.
Virtual workshops
- Tuesday 21 May: Part 1/2 How to be an effective coach | 1 point
- Thursday 20 and Friday 21 June: Change Agent Manager | 0 points
Read Microsoft O365 brain frazzle (in a good way) by recent Change Agent graduate Emma Hart (from London Councils). - Tuesday 17 September How to be an Effective Coach | 1 point
In-person programmes
- Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 June: Top Talent | East | 4 points
- Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July Place-based Leadership | Midlands | 4 points
- Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July Empowering Women | London and South East | 3 points
- Thursday 25 and Friday 26 July Empowering Women | South West | 3 points
- Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 September Empowering Women | Midlands | 3 points
Training places are included in your organisational membership – subject to availability and membership level. If you have any questions or would like further information, please email the training team.
President’s Conference. People Make Places
Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June in Birmingham
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to feel inspired, connected, and equipped to deal with whatever the future holds.
As well as conference passes your organisation may have seats for the President’s gala dinner and hotel rooms. Log in for your details.
Events
Member-only meetings
Meet people for catching-up, problem sharing (and solving) and great networking.
- Thursday 23 May: in-person meeting for members in Yorkshire and Humber
- Wednesday 29 May: Northern Ireland Public Sector ICT Conference [invitation-only]
- Wednesday 31 April: Members’ Connection Hour – make sure you keep getting the best and most from your membership
- Monday 3 June: virtual meeting for East
- Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June: President’s Conference 2024 in Birmingham
Free webinars and meetings hosted by Socitm
- Accessibility Week returns on Monday 13 May
- Wednesday 22 May Social Value
Get into the detail about the benefits, community engagement, measuring impact and collaboration of what good looks like. Read through the briefing for digital/IT leaders. - Wednesday 26 June An easy way to manage the report it, apply for it, book and pay for it process
Free webinars and events hosted by partners and others
- Tuesday 14 May
- Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 May Integrating Digital Health & Care 2024
- Monday 20 May: Vale of Glamorgan Council: What does good look like?
- Tuesday 21 May: GeoPlace Conference 2024 [Manchester]
- Tuesday 21 May: PublicTechnology Live 2024 [London]
- Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 May: Local Government Partnership Network North [Manchester]
- Wednesday 5 June: Microsoft LocalGov Innovation and Collaboration Forum
- Friday 10 June Barnet Climate Action Month Launch Event [London]
- Tuesday 18 June ONS Local: Local economic growth with What Works Growth
- Wednesday 19 to Friday 21 June Smart Places & Smart Communities 2024
- Thursday 20 June: AI in the public sector: Improve productivity, efficiency and outcomes for your staff, citizens, and patients [Birmingham]
- Monday 24 June Neath Port Talbot Council: What does good look like?
- Tuesday 25 June: South West Connect Conference [Exeter]
Bringing together up to date digital, data and clinical policy updates alongside health and social care case studies. - Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 September: DigiGov Expo [London]
Missed a webinar? Past recordings are available to watch in the resource hub.
Webinars are open to anyone in the public sector, membership is not necessary, so please do share them with your network.
Come and say hello
- Tuesday 21 May:
- GeoPlace [Manchester]
- LGPN North [Manchester]
Join President Mark Lumley for the roundtable discussion Empowering communities: technology for public good - PublicTechnology Live 2024 [London]
Incoming President Carol Williams is a panellist for Are times too tough for local government transformation?
- Tuesday 24 September: DigiGov Expo [London]
Join Nadira Hussain, President Mark Lumley and Sam Smith- Nadira is chairing the Citizen Experience stream. In which, at 15:25, Mark (Director of ICT and Digital at London Borough of Hounslow) is a panellist on Data-Driven Collaboration: Transforming governance through strategic partnerships and enhanced data sharing
- Sam is a panellist in the GovICT stream at 15:10 for Driving Transformation through an Effective Strategy: The pillars needed to achieve success
Transform Your Career
FEDIP Future Digital Leader Bursary Applications Now Open
Ready to shape the landscape of digital health? Applications are now open for the FEDIP Future Digital Leader Bursary, tailored for aspiring leaders in the field of health and care informatics (both clinicians and non-clinical). Offering a 12-month professional body membership, unlocking doors to invaluable mentoring and resources and a ticket to the BCS Faculty of Health and Care Inaugural Conference.
Connect, learn, and lead.
Read about the benefits and apply now.
Thank you for reading (or scrolling) this far! Just one more thing…
If you enjoyed the Atlas Obscura podcast episode from the other week, about people writing letters to trees, you might like to hear about the Beauly Priory Wych Elm. An ancient tree comes back to life, thanks to 3D technology.