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Shannon Donoghue and Rachel Gaffney from Informed Solutions Skills Outreach Team introduce Informed Solutions’ digital skills outreach programme, which uses foundational elements of its world class InformedACADEMY© learning and development framework to help encourage young people and provide advice and guidance on exploring a career in […]

Strategy is vital if we are to deal with the public sector data tsunami

March 2020

During discussions at the recent Digital Leaders Cities Workshop, it’s clear that local government is facing a tsunami of data. The digital revolution, driven by technology such as Internet of Things (IoT), has resulted in more data being made available to councils than ever before, […]

How can we fully realise the potential of 5G in local authorities?

February 2020

Recently Digital Leaders organised their first smart cities workshop, hosted by Wigan Council. The aim of the workshop, attended by senior digital leaders from Sunderland, Bristol, Manchester, and others was to showcase leading trends in smart cities, with a focus on IoT and 5G. Through […]

How ‘Accessibility Tech’ will be a key trend for European startups, investors and cities in 2020

February 2020

PUBLIC work to help technology startups solve some of the biggest challenges faced by today’s cities and governments. Cities are becoming smarter than ever before, with a plethora of startups looking to transform how we interact with our urban spaces. The rise of the smart […]

members of local government at DL Cities workshop

Digital leaders in the local government sector

February 2020

About the author: Mikko Lintunen worked more than 13 years at Nokia, where he headed for example global knowledge management programme, and at Microsoft, where he led the development of digital TV, books and news services. Five years ago he founded his own consultancy and […]

Data rights, wrongs, and trust

February 2020

Individuals and consumer groups are getting more interested in exercising control over their data rights, but it’s not always obvious who is using our data, and what for. The Irish data protection regulator has announced that it would investigate Google’s use of location data, which […]