MapLondon event December 19: speakers discuss data, digital mapping, planning, and citizen engagement
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A wide range of professionals from the world of planning and development convened at December’s MapLondon event to explore how cities might be made better through more data sharing and wider use of digital maps.
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Recovery from election fraud: the Tower Hamlets story
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Asmat Hussain, Corporate Director of Governance tells Rachael Tiffen of CIFAS what happened next after the High Court’s overturn of its 2014 mayoral election
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Could a digital approach solve care managers' and providers’ problems with medicines support?
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Damian Nolan (Halton BC) and Jane Hancer (CC2i) explain the problems of administering meds and describe a new collaboration by councils to find a digital solution.
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Councils collaborate to explore digital potential in administration of new Liberty Protection Safeguards
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Jane Hancer (CC2i) and Damian Nolan (Halton BC) describe how a five-council collaboration supported by the LGA and match-funded NHS Digital will deliver via the Social Care Innovation Accelerator
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WM ADASS: immersive data presentation will change health & care commissioning
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The Bridge - Shropshire Council’s immersive approach to presenting local data - is set to transform council and NHS commissioning
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‘It's never gone this well!’ – council service teams on building their own IT
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Kate Hurr, Digital Manager at Cumbria County Council, describes colleagues’ enthusiasm for creating digital services in-house.
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Transformation done right is ‘with’ and not ‘to’ says LB Havering team
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Chief Operating Officer Jane West and transformation lead Susie Faulkner describe a process designed to bring staff and residents along with change.
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Counter Measures No4 - how a trusted member of staff committed a £2.1m fraud and what LB Barnet did next
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Clair Green, Director of Assurance at London Borough of Barnet tells Rachael Tiffen, Director Local Government at CIFAS, about an unprecedented fraud
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Planning across place is key to tackling challenges of ageing populations
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Andy Begley, Director of Adults, Public Health & Housing at Shropshire and Mark Barrow, Director of Place, explain the Council's ‘whole system’ response to an ageing population.
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Doteveryone on regulating for responsible technology
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Director of Policy Catherine Miller describes how the thinktank is working with regulators across all sectors on measures to counter harmful effects on society of recent and rapid digital change.
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Fresh from April’s Extinction Rebellion protests in London, and with plenty of stories from the heart of the activity, Adam Woodhall told the CLGdotTV audience that sharing thinking about use of resources via protests sets the stage for sort of practical action that can be facilitated by organisations like Freegle.
Freegle was founded in 2009 and aims to increase reuse and reduce landfill by offering a free online service where people can give away and ask for things that would otherwise be thrown away. Cat Fletcher said that the impact of Extinction Rebellion for the organisation and its 1000+ volunteers was immediate and positive. She stressed that the benefits of sharing are not just about the environment either. There is a human connection made whenever something is passed from one person to another, to become part of a different life.
As Reuse Manager at Brighton and Hove City Council, Cat’s day job is equally concerned with saving stuff the council doesn’t need any more for further use - in unbelievable quantities – which, as she explains is a far better outcome than recycling, where products have to be taken apart (more use of resources) before anything can be done with them.