The London Office of Technology and Innovation

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LOTI is London local government’s collaborative innovation team. We help London borough councils and the GLA use innovation, data and technology to be high performing organisations, improve services and tackle London’s biggest challenges together.

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Solving local government issues through collaboration with external digital talent in Tokyo

GovTechTokyo shares their experience in collaborating with external digital talent on large scale projects such as digitalisation and operational efficiency improvements in local government.

by Ari Sakai
21 April 2026

Is your job ad accidentally ghosting your best candidates?

Alison from the LOTI team shares tips on how to make your digital, data, and technology (DDaT) professional job ad stand out.

by Alison Bellamy
20 April 2026

Making a socially transformative impact in Tohoku, Japan  

How does social impact and economic value go hand in hand? Yuma Kawahara from Sendai City shares their work on supporting social entrepreneurs across the Tohoku region.

by Yuma Kawahara
17 April 2026

What drives risk-averse procurement?

Radical thinking doesn’t happen unless the culture in a borough can support it. Sarbjit from the LOTI team discusses how challenges in procurement may be cultural.

by Sarbjit Bakhshi

Celebrating London’s digital inclusion changemakers: Melissa, Founder of Bridge the Gap

Good Things Foundation spoke with Melissa Francis, the CEO and founder of Bridge the Gap Ending Digital Poverty C.I.C., a hub in Hackney, offering digital workshops, devices and data to those who need it.

by Madeleine Ruse
25 March 2026

A day in the life as…a Data Scientist

Sean Pedrick-Case shares what it is like to work as a Data Scientist at the London Borough of Lambeth. 

by Sean Pedrick-Case
24 March 2026

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