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The 16 funded projects to kick-start ‘Mission Wiki Fix’
We are delighted to announce that the Local Digital Fund is backing 16 projects in its first round, supporting 57 councils to find innovative routes towards improved digital services.
Selecting the first Local Digital Fund projects
An expert panel joined the Local Digital Collaboration Unit team to review the projects shortlisted for the Local Digital Fund awards. Read how the successful bids were decided upon from the 77 full applications received.
Designing the market response to the Local Digital Declaration
Hosted by techUK, this co-design workshop invited tech suppliers and vendors to explore different areas of response to the Declaration. See the progress made at the event by each working group and the planned next steps.
The PropTech mission
One of the missions Paul introduced for our new digital directorate is to encourage diversification of the housing market using digital and data technologies. As with so many other areas, we think technology will transform planning and housing, enabling new …
Setting up the Local Digital Fund: what we’ve learnt and how we’re adapting
What we've learnt from the expressions of interest stage and how we'll be taking the full Local Digital Fund applications forward from here.
Over 80 organisations have endorsed the Local Digital Declaration
The Local Digital team is delighted to announce that since its launch in July, the Local Digital Declaration has had senior sign-off from 86 organisations. In total, 123 organisations are currently at various points along the sign-up process.
It can be difficult to make data from information
The Digital Land services team recently ran a discovery in which we researched the barriers our users encounter when trying to find and use housing data. This is the first in a series of posts about those barriers, or what …
Digital planning and housing finds a new home
Head of the Digital Land Policy Peter Latham introduces his new team’s role in digital reform of the planning and housing system
Making developer contributions open and transparent
The recently updated National Planning Policy Framework and associated guidance introduced the expectation that planning authorities will publish their viability statements and developer contributions to increase the transparency of the planning process. Publishing data around developer contributions will help people better understand the effect developer contributions have …
Releasing up to 389 Local Digital Fund proposals
This has been an important, madly busy week for our new Local Digital Collaboration Unit. In just a 2-week period, we received 389 unique expressions of interest in running collaborative Local Digital Fund projects from 171 organisations. This included at …