{"id":10172,"date":"2014-02-06T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/feb\/06\/value-local-government-digital-services-should-be-driven-g-cloud-psn-and-suppliers\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T00:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:47:34","slug":"value-in-local-government-digital-services-should-be-driven-by-g-cloud-psn-and-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/value-in-local-government-digital-services-should-be-driven-by-g-cloud-psn-and-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Value in local government digital services should be driven by G-Cloud, PSN and suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When head of Rotherham Council ICT Richard Copley recently called for a Local Government Digital Service, I immediately thought &ldquo;that&rsquo;s an ambitious idea and welcome thinking&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>We should always be open to bold new approaches that challenge the <em>status quo<\/em> and are driven by a genuine desire to deliver a better and more cost effective service for the public. After all, the central Government Digital Service (GDS) was such an idea and look how award-winningly successful that has been.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&rsquo;m also mindful of Mike Bracken&rsquo;s comment at a 2013 SOCITM conference that &#8220;it was the devil&#8217;s own job to get 24 departments to agree to adopt Gov.uk&#8221;. As Richard Copley himself admits, it would be a serious challenge to scale that task up to 326 councils\/local authorities and their digital departments spread right across the country.<\/p>\n<p>So could there be a more pragmatic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When head of Rotherham Council ICT Richard Copley recently called for a Local Government Digital Service, I immediately thought &ldquo;that&rsquo;s an ambitious idea and welcome thinking&rdquo;.<br \/>\nWe should always be open to bold new approaches that chal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}