In September the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) invited expressions of interest (EoI) from councils, in their £7.5m Local Digital Fund. This week MHCLG released details of the EoIs they received, and you can see all 389 here . An unintentional outcome of the volume of EoIs MHCLG received is that collectively they serve as a snapshot of the current state of digital and transformation in local government. David Neudegg tweeted this great summary of them as a whole: An interesting and illuminating list of proposals that highlight the current variation of levels of understanding of digital across the sector https://t.co/PbGPB6w2nU — David Neudegg (@PublicaMD) October 26, 2018 I've taken a look through many of the EoIs and they seem to fall into fall into four categories: 1) Things that shouldn't need funding LocalGov Digital was formed in 2012, in part to aid collaboration across local government. Since then it's become a national netw...
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