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New plan, same idea.

At UKGovCamp in 2012, Sarah Lay  and  Carl Haggerty  had an idea. After a discussion with  Sarah Jennings , a group of council officers were invited to London to talk about local government, digital and collaboration; I was lucky enough to be one of them. We discussed the inadequacies of the annual Better Connected survey, what the new Government Digital Service might mean for local government, how we could work together to produce better websites, and a whole lot more. Another meeting followed, and with the help of the Local Government Association, LocalGov Digital was created. The idea grew and became LocalGovCamp 2014 , and 2015 , and 2016 and 2017 . It became Unmentoring , the LocalGov Digital Slack Team , the Local Government Digital Service Standard , five local peer groups , and much more. We accomplished amazing things as a network with next to no funding, but we only got so far. This is why in December 2017 we adopted a formal constitution which means LocalGov Digit