What happened when Kirklees Council held its first remote cabinet meeting?
Local government approaches to flexible and remote working, required by the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been rapid … Read more
Flexible and remote working: how is Liverpool City Council managing during the Covid-19 crisis?
Socitm’s Improve annual report 2020 was published on 6 May. A highlight was the rise in public sector users … Read more
Socitm publishes its annual Improve Report for 2020
For the last 20 years, Socitm has been assisting public sector organisations with the quality of its ICT infrastructure … Read more
Nadira Hussain joins #techmums: empowering women, enriching the world
Nadira Hussain has joined #techmums as a non-executive director. techmums is an initiative devised to engage, empower and build … Read more
Conferencing platforms for public meetings
With the UK and Northern Ireland in lockdown, local government is being relied upon to look at options to … Read more
Coronavirus: Homeworking and Cyber Resilience
Thank you to all our members and friends for your continued good work. While it may not always be recognised or acknowledged, it … Read more
2020’s technology trends: predictions from other people
Some of the most popular pages in Socitm’s publications library look at technology trends in the public sector. Our … Read more
Socitm attend Women in IT awards
Socitm was delighted to be nominated for the Diversity initiative of the year award at the sixth annual Women … Read more
Fail fast. Fail forward.
As Tolstoy said: “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” But how does the pursuit of perfection … Read more
Announcement: new accessibility partner
With a new year just starting, we are ringing in 2020 by announcing our new partnership with Silktide. Superseding … Read more
Grow. Share. Lead
Our Leadership Academy programmes are designed to harness, stretch and promote the talents and skills essential to successful contemporary leadership.
Why Nadira Hussain wants members to learn to lead
Having been the head of ICT for the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets and then Enfield, she is well-versed … Read more
Leadership Academy advocate: Gerry Baker
Earlier this year I took part in the Top Talent programme at an interesting point in my career…
Evolution to best support the digital delivery of public services
Socitm has reviewed its services to make sure they still offer best value to our members, both professionally and personally.
Socitm awarded CPD accreditation
Socitm has been awarded CPD points for all training and development programmes offered by its Leadership Academy. From November … Read more
Welcome to Smartershire
Transforming rural public services through technology With rural areas of the country having fewer people per square mile, this … Read more
Leadership Academy advocate: Alison Lincoln
I jumped at the chance of taking part in the programme… when reading about it I soon realised this was going to be different.
