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I learnt summit on Monday

The LocalGov Digital Service Standard Summit happened on Monday 19 September and you can see the agenda here . Here's some things I learnt from it: There's a growing number of people working in central government, who want to help improve local service delivery and are willing to lend some of their professional time and skills. There's a growing number of people who work in local government who have an interest in doing digital well. Some IT suppliers are seen as an obstacle to delivering better, cheaper public services. City Hall, London is a great venue, and there's some great people who work there. It's entirely possible and relatively easy to put together a panel of excellent speakers on digital, the majority of who happen to be women. If you're going to an event on digital that features mostly men, ask the organiser why that is. If you're paying to attend an event, someone's probably making money out of you. That's not necessarily a