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London Prompt & Productivity Library: Copy, paste, tweak

21 July 2026

Vindy Hansra, Digital & Data Transformation Lead, at Croydon Council, shares the journey from Croydon’s prompt library to the London Productivity Library.

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Prompt & Productivity Library pilot

21 July 2026

The LOTI Prompt & Productivity Library pilot is a new resource designed to help local authorities navigate and optimise their use of generative AI tools.

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Baselining, the key to unlocking value in local government using AI

22 June 2026

Sarbjit from the LOTI team shares his thoughts on how understanding the cost of delivery it helps strategic planning and where to focus with AI.

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The cost of building fell…but the cost of deciding hasn’t

26 May 2026

Dwain Nicely, Continuous Innovation Manager at Barking and Dagenham, shares his thoughts on the cost of deciding in local government.

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Legacy technology Inertia: Why things don’t change

26 May 2026

Sarbjit from the LOTI Team examines systematic and non-technical forces contributing to legacy technology inertia and what we can do about them.

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Humans in the Lead: Navigating Automated Decision-Making

11 May 2026

The report: ‘Humans in the Lead: data protection law and the current legal landscape in respect of human oversight into automated decision-making (ADM),’ acts as a general guide to navigating the complex legal frameworks surrounding automated systems.

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Putting in place the enabling conditions for AI

5 May 2026

Eddie Copeland explores what conditions and behaviours councils need to cultivate in order to achieve value from using AI.

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AI & Legislation Digitalisation: Q&A with the Japan Digital Agency’s Legal Team

24 March 2026

Polly from the LOTI team sits down with the Legal Team at Japan Digital Agency to learn more about how they’re approaching legislation digitalisation.

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Beyond the grind: Leading change with AI in Local Gov Drupal

24 November 2025

Angie Forson from Southwark Council shares how she has unblocked the team from the grind of manual copy and pasting from PDFs into HTML publishing.

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AI Use Case Designer Template

6 November 2025

LOTI’s AI Use Case Designer Template helps teams ideate on new AI use cases and think about the critical enabling conditions required for the AI to have impact.

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Consultation thematic analysis using large language models

23 September 2025

Sean Pedrick-Case from Lambeth shares his work on piloting AI-integrated analysis of consultation responses using Large Language Models.

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A heatwave of ideas: how Leeds turned warm weather into hot opportunities for AI in planning

22 May 2025

Vincen Arivannoor, Strategic Relationship Manager at Hammersmith and Fulham reflects on his experience at the MHCLG AI in Planning Hackathon.

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