The chair of LocalGov Digital, a network for digital practitioners in local government, has offered his thoughts on the creation of a Local Government Digital Service (LGDS).
Government CTO Liam Maxwell has claimed that although Whitehall supports the use of open source where possible, there are sometimes better options.
Socitm, the representative body for people in public sector IT, has proposed a “Local Government Digital Service” as an alternative to a LOCALGOV.UK site.
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