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This month, Jay Saggar and Polly Kwok from the LOTI team, and a small group of borough officers took a trip up to Sunderland to learn about the city’s efforts to develop connectivity and deploy smart city use cases. The …

by Jay Saggar
24 October 2023

In this blog, Eddie Copeland, Director of LOTI speaks to Nathan Pierce, Assistant Director of Digital and Change at Haringey Council about becoming a member of LOTI and the plans ahead.

by Eddie Copeland
20 October 2023

In this blog, Jay Saggar and Eddie Copeland share their thoughts on London as a smart city and what LOTI aims to do in this area.

by Jay Saggar
3 October 2023

Procurement is part of a bigger transformation and innovation puzzle. If done well and outcomes-focused, it can help stimulate the local government tech market and create places where citizens can thrive and feel safe.

by Georgina Maratheftis
20 September 2023

Imagination is not a word you usually associate with local government. But over the past 18 months, LOTI member Camden Council and Moral Imaginations have been working together to build the imagination capacity of the organisation.

by Phoebe Tickell

LOTI has worked on several projects with Social Finance recently so we’ve joined forces to explain how good information governance has positively impacted those projects.

by Victoria Blyth
18 September 2023

Ever wondered how you can tell if data can help you solve a specific problem? This blog outlines three simple questions you can ask.

by Eddie Copeland

LOTI Researcher and Data Ethicist Sam Nutt considers what ideas and activities local government should focus on to become effective users of AI in the coming years?

by Sam Nutt
6 September 2023

LOTI Researcher and Data Ethicist Sam Nutt details the findings from LOTI’s research over the Summer of 2023 into the state of play of generative AI in local government.

by Sam Nutt

ODI Researchers Joe Massey & Ben Snaith make the case collating and curating datasets generated by Londoners to better understand and improve London.

by Joe Massey
31 July 2023

Anna from LOTI shares her reflections and key takeaways from the London Data Week event: Data Innovation in London.

by Anna Humpleby
26 July 2023

London Borough of Harrow shares their experience of developing a digital twin to solve their Council’s business problems.

by Samuel Tizzard

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