Image: © carloscastilla | iStock Here, Jing Walker, Digital Advisory Consultant at UBDS IT Consulting Limited explores the challenges facing local regional governments and how the deployment of Hackathons can help them on their digital transformation journey Local regional governments are facing unprecedented pressure to deliver services, calling for innovative thinking on productivity and effective demand management. Hackathons prove to be an effective and cost-efficient catalyst for local authorities’ digital transformation journey. Collaborative, user-centric and agile methodologies should be adopted to quickly unlock value. Challenges facing local regional government Local regional governments are responsible for providing a range of services that impact everybody in local communities and change lives for the better. However, councils are facing unprecedented pressures from funding cuts and workforce shortages in tandem with increasing demand for their services. To tackle this mounting pressure, local authorities are exploring different ways to achieve efficiency through re- engineering their current way of work and looking at technology to help solve their challenges. A common resource-intensive business process The Freedom of Information (FOI) service provides any individual or organisation access to information held by public authorities that may be of public interest. The authority is legally required to respond […]
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