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Local Digital’s next steps with Tom Smith, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics 

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Tom Smith and team during workshop in Darlington

Tom Smith, Director of the AI and Advanced Analytics Directorate at MHCLG, highlights the push for AI adoption, digital transformation and cyber resilience in councils, and the exciting opportunities to make progress in these areas through the work of Local Digital.

DLUHC Innovation Squads: developing our HR chatbot from problem to vision to solution

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Our first Innovation Squad, a team of colleagues from different specialisms across the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), apply creativity and novel thinking to improve processes across the organisation. In this post, they share how they built on their initial successes and the role of good content in further enhancing user experience in the HR space.

Our first Innovation Squad: experimenting with AI and chatbots

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The Innovation Squads team deliver a show and tell to DLUHC colleagues

Government always seeks new ways to increase efficiency, solve problems and make improvements. In our department, we continually drive process improvements through multiple initiatives. In this post, we’ll talk about our latest initiative: Innovation Squads.

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