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How is Pipeline helping to fix the plumbing?

LocalGov Digital is the association for professionals working in and around local government digital, of which I'm currently Chair. We're the voice of local government digital practitioners and offer a range of services to our members for free, to aid collaboration between councils to help deliver better, cheaper services. One such service is Pipeline . Back in 2013 I wrote about a Kickstarter for Local Government . The idea was to kick start collaboration between councils by creating a platform on which could councils could publish details of the projects they were working on, and update people as they progressed. Its aim was to stop duplication; doing the same thing separately in hundreds of councils across the country, and therefore reduce waste and cost across the sector. In 2014 I created the first iteration of Pipeline built in C# on an open source wiki, and quickly roped in Ben Cheetham to help develop it with me. The initial response was great, with over 50 co