iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Love this show and tell from the team at Cumberland, demonstrating how they digitised and improved a previously Excel based finance process. Great work, and great sharing! ift.tt/owmNLuM

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 29/09/2026

Nice update from Jayvik about the advances the digital team in Luton have been making across the development of their LocalGovDrupal website and low code digital services build. One interesting dev... ift.tt/vbYBHVk

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 23/09/2026

Is it international break time, by any chance?

A screenshot from the Guardian newspaper’s website

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 18/09/2026

Still very light blogging – work is intense at the moment! Good, but intense. But today I came across Fibery – which is like Miro, but crossed with Airtable and already I can think of l... ift.tt/Q2pyEKk

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 28/08/2026

Thanks to Tom Watson’s post about A TechFreedom startup stack, I came across Baserow, which looks like a very well featured, slightly cheaper, open source based alternative to AirTable. Handy! ift.tt/WdsoCki

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 27/08/2026

Just sent round the first LocalGovDigital community email newsletter, which goes to everyone signed up for our new online network 😀 Have a read of the web version to see what you are missing! If ... ift.tt/uUlg1BL

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 14/08/2026

Light blogging recently – partly due to starting a new contract, and partly due to the fact that I am just back from a lovely week by the seaside. Didn’t venture too far, just an hour ... ift.tt/eaucHWj

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 14/08/2026

If anyone here has been a user of the LocalGovDigitial Slack group, well, we are moving! The new place is over here: community.localgov.digital and is very welcoming! Public sector (and adjacent) only for now, I’m afraid.

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 05/08/2026

Coined a new (to me!) phrase today: “performative project management”. Can see myself using it a lot from now on! ift.tt/hHa9oTq

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 05/08/2026

I love stories like this. Luton’s Hazel Lunn shares the low down on her career in local government, from working in the contact centre to now heading up technology and infrastructure for the ... ift.tt/AizdmLc

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 03/08/2026

This looks quite interesting: London Productivity Library. A productivity tool from LOTI, for any organisation to deploy. A curated collection of prompts, workflows, productivity tips, and AI ass... ift.tt/d5Vl9tO

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 30/07/2026

Another great update on the low code platform rollout at Luton, from Kev Rowe: A key principle of our low code platform approach is to build reusable components that can support multiple services.... ift.tt/aLHqsz7

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 29/07/2026

Sucharitha Revanuru from the Essex Digital Service team writes From Bananas to Better Outcomes: Taking Product Thinking to the LGD Community: Like many digital teams, one of our biggest lessons ha... ift.tt/5CVuHMh

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 29/07/2026

I don’t know why I enjoy aggressively sceptical posts about AI so much, but I do. Here’s a doozy: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making: There have been several occasions whe... ift.tt/csWrTgH

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 28/07/2026

Matt Cain – The Architecture of Effective Digital Government Centres: Over the last eighteen months a distinct cohort of governments has produced fast measurable gains in digital government.... ift.tt/84xJMjF

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 28/07/2026

Ronan Fitzgerald on the Justice Digital, Data and Science blog writes How user research transformed GOV.UK guidance for separating families: Thousands of people use guidance on child arrangements e... ift.tt/fDW7RB9

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 27/07/2026

TPX Impact have published a “Market-shaping playbook for policymakers”: Market-shaping is the practice of designing and delivering interventions that make a public service market produ... ift.tt/UKocPdh

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 27/07/2026

Via Jukesie – the Department for Education’s Product management principles. ift.tt/2gCoKcl

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 27/07/2026

Kailani Knight – The Certainty Principles: Accessibility work often feels chaotic. Every new project seems to start from scratch. Every person who flags a barrier is treated like a unique puz... ift.tt/l12otqJ

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 23/07/2026

On the MHCLG Digital blog – Building Local Transcribe for local government: Local Transcribe is a new AI-powered tool designed to change that by capturing conversations, transcribing and sum... ift.tt/pl8RXU3

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 22/07/2026

Ben Welby helpfully summarises a lot of the chatter about where all the digital stuff in government is going following the decision to break up DSIT. ift.tt/YEwMCJc

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 22/07/2026

Johnny Williams – No Ivory Towers Here Please (LinkedIn warning): What DSIT hasn’t done is build sovereign and resilient digital infrastructure below that GOV.UK front door. Standardis... ift.tt/xFlMNiC

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 22/07/2026

MySociety asks Robots and councils: how is AI being used by local government – and what can we find out about it? Artificial Intelligence, as we know, is everywhere. For governments and public bod... ift.tt/OLEic0z

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 21/07/2026

James Plunkett publishes a long read on approaches to education (Medium warning). It’s well worth your time. Really like this in the concluding paragraphs: The challenges facing public servi... ift.tt/KgTSZ3v

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 21/07/2026

Matt Wood-Hill continues to blog his thoughts on his time in government working on digital planning. This is a useful reflection on how central government best works with local: ODP starts from th... ift.tt/iUqfXFv

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 20/07/2026

More new content on the LGR digital playbook! This time, it’s quite a long read on commercial, contract and supplier considerations during reorganisation. This quote from a local gov person i... ift.tt/6ewTAb0

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 16/07/2026

The Government has announced the shape of the latest batch of new unitary councils across the county: Gloucestershire: 7 councils being reorganised into 1 unitary. This will unite the Gloucester-... ift.tt/1CZ9UAR

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 16/07/2026

Macrows is a desktop Airtable clone for the Mac. It’s nice! ift.tt/WHhBnEw

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 15/07/2026

How lovely not to have to worry about England winning the World Cup any more.

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 15/07/2026

2018 clearly doesn’t count for some people! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 15/07/2026

Seems a little naive to think the tactics that worked against Norway and Mexico would also work against this Argentina side 🤷‍♂️

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 14/07/2026

An open working masterclass from Cumberland Council: Running a show and tell? ✅ Recording it so others can watch it? ✅ Publishing it on your intranet? ✅ The area of the intranet that anyone on the... ift.tt/f7rc4VY

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 14/07/2026

WhatCable is a simple, free Mac app to tell you wha the USB-C cable is that you have plugged in. Can it carry data? How much wattage is it capable of? WhatCable explains cable speed, charging lim... ift.tt/X69waRz

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 13/07/2026

LOTI is 7 years old and Eddie rightly celebrates, and also teases about the future: That’s why LOTI is now planning its most ambitious initiative to date: to establish a Centre for New Public Serv... ift.tt/PXhFlZK

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 13/07/2026

Cathy Dutton – The portal trap: When portals are treated as containers they fail. You can’t cover up the complexity, and attempting to do so just adds another layer of abstraction and ... ift.tt/iNEd1k0

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 13/07/2026

A few people have asked if the work on the existing Service Standard affects the Local Government Digital Standard. Yes and no! First up, read the post. It’s good and it looks like the Servic... ift.tt/QJOFeby

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 10/07/2026

Have been using Dropover this week, and it’s great. A Mac app that pops up a little shelf for you to drop whatever you are currently dragging onto, so you can then find the place you want to ... ift.tt/Xgv2kus

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 09/07/2026

Laura points to this post on how to build a community calendar, and there’s some interesting stuff in there. I wonder if some of it would be useful for the ORUK crowd? But the choice of tech... ift.tt/NkP349a

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 09/07/2026

As if by magic, the mighty Will has also posted on improving local government software today, and I heartily recommend you taking a few minutes out to read what he has to say. Rather than cover ev... ift.tt/A0cLQEx

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 09/07/2026

There’s ongoing talk about one of the things holding back digital in local government being the lack of quality in the software market, and there is work ongoing at MHCLG, Local GDS, and R... ift.tt/e983bka

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 09/07/2026

Steve Messer – Is testing and learning a methodology or a core skill?: Experimentation and adaption is only mentioned in the Agile and Lean section, and only in the context of ways of workin... ift.tt/dTiltBy

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 07/07/2026

The obvious thing to do in this Clacton by election surely is to ignore it. No one else stand, and make the whole thing look even more ridiculous than it already does.

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 07/07/2026

New resource on the digital LGR playbook – Priorities at each phase of reorganisation: This resource sets out common phases councils that have been through LGR have experienced. It is not a ... ift.tt/svoepY4

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 07/07/2026

I’m just finishing up my work with Luton Council. It’s been a great experience, and I feel I’ve learned a load along the way, whilst really helping catalyse the shift there to a modern digital serv... ift.tt/uqArin1

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 06/07/2026

Tom Loosemore – Prompt injection and the perils of leaving it to AI to handle AI: A petition filed to a Brazilian labour court contained hidden instructions for any AI used by the court to c... ift.tt/PDCbWuo

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 06/07/2026

Tinydot looks like a fun little service. A Mac app sits on your computer watching a folder. Anything you put into that folder appears on your Tinydot site, as if by magic! Markdown files, photos, e... ift.tt/nVfq5BY

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 06/07/2026

Matt Billingsley from Content Design London – What 6 FOI requests reveal about government campaign websites: Departments treated these websites as communications products rather than service... ift.tt/qIhLi85

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Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs · 26/06/2026

Am off work next week and planning to take a proper break. Back on 6th July – see you on the other side! ift.tt/I9jo6Vw

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