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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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Agentic AI in Council Services

22 April 2026

A collaborative approach to map service patterns and deploy Agentic AI to resolve complex resident requests.

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Making a socially transformative impact in Tohoku, Japan  

17 April 2026

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.

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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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5 design hacks for AI-enabled public services

24 November 2025

Genta Hajri from the LOTI team shares five design hacks we need to remember when designing AI-enabled services.

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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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Boosting frontline capacity and increasing “You Time” at GovTechTokyo

5 September 2025

GovTechTokyo shares an update about their current project — developing a Generative AI Platform — and highlights their upcoming goals.

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