Local Digital Today

14th November 2014

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Julian Bowrey

Deputy Director, Digital and Corporate Communications, DCLG

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Local Digital 2014

28events held in eleven

locations

1,389 delegates 1,005 from

local government

Three Key Streams:• Discovery & Co-Design

• Skills

• Futures

Potential savings

Co-Design Days aim to design solutions for the problems identified at Discovery Days.

Local and central government delegates work together designing the business case and functions of their concept.

Significant potential savings identified with DVLA, DH and Land Registry from central and local Government working together on these digital solutions.

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But perhaps even more importantly, attendees say that the Local Digital Programme is helping them to identify:

82% Improvements

71% Collaboration opportunities

65% Efficiencies

49% Savings

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92% rated the events as good or better

94% would recommend our events to a colleague

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Events AttendeesAvg.

monthly blog views

Avg. monthly newsletter

opensJan– Sept

28 1,389 8,717 8,432

Twitter reach over

8 m impressions

Amplification

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The results of our survey, Local Digital Today 2014, are in:

• Respondents had saved on average £1.4m for their organisation through digital - £335k more than last year.

When asked what would be of most value to the sector…

• 94% of respondents said a set of common standards to enable data sharing across local services.

• 89% said a common form of ID assurance.• 65% said a ‘local digital service’.

Local authorities are most keen to work with

Cabinet Office, DCLG, DWP and HMRC.

Respondents had saved £1.4m on average for their

organisation through digital -

£335k more than last year.

Nearly 65% of respondents said that digital tools

and technologies had delivered

sayings to their organisation, up 4.5% on 2013.

Thank you