PinnedLondon’s new ‘public digital infrastructure’ prepares city for future innovation and AILondon’s new public digital infrastructure is a term we’re adopting at City Hall to describe core smart city work by the Mayor of London and partners to prepare for future innovation at a scale that can truly benefit Londoners. As Chief Digital Officer for London at City Hall — London’s…Innovation7 min readInnovation7 min read
3 days agoStarting the open innovation conversation in city government teams, and beyond…Designing a new tool to support experimentation, collaboration and learning by Julie McLaren (UCL), Sandy Tung (GLA), Ahmad Bismillah (GLA), Almira Lardizabel Hussain (GLA), Sem Lee (OURI Labs) and Gemma Moore (UCL) Researchers at UCL have been collaborating with policy makers at City Hall over the past couple of years…Open Innovation4 min readOpen Innovation4 min read
Oct 16UK local government devolution: unleashing the power of dataIn local government devolution discussions it is only natural for councils to want greater powers and financial autonomy — goals which are undeniably crucial and pressing. To these long-standing asks I’d add another important enabler: unleashing the power of local data. Right now we are experiencing a monumental shift due…Data10 min readData10 min read
Jul 10Does Whitehall need a Net Zero Delivery Service?UK governments (of whatever colour) face a real dilemma when confronting the huge sums needed to achieve NetZero. The State alone can’t foot the bill for change, and even where government has intervened delivery has often been questionable. At the same time government at all levels has had trouble market-making…Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Jun 13Designing London’s Recovery — a retrospective on open innovationAt City Hall we understand that innovation is a key component supporting London’s growth. Through the Mayor’s commitment to expand open innovation calls we’ve been given the opportunity to test new ways of working at City Hall to foster that growth. And with Designing London’s Recovery we’ve been able to…Open Innovation9 min readOpen Innovation9 min read
Apr 21What’s buried beneath our feet? New National Underground Asset Register digital twin MVP goes live in LondonCity Hall hosted a great example of city-wide data collaboration with government this week with the launch of the National Underground Asset Register MVP: a digital twin of buried assets to aid infrastructure project delivery and protect worker safety. Below our feet lie thousands of kilometres of pipes, cables and…Cities7 min readCities7 min read
Mar 29Data for London: joining-up city data to build a better London for everyoneThis is a the first in a series of posts outlining London’s work on data. Below I run through the Data for London programme, what it involves, where it takes us and how to be part of it. Data is now vital city infrastructure underpinning public service delivery, growth and…Smart Cities7 min readSmart Cities7 min read
Jan 24Open innovation and the cost-of-living crisis (1)Almira Lardizabal Hussain from City Hall’s Open Innovation Lab on the cost-of-living work with one’s of London’s biggest boroughs… In the summer of 2022, City Hall launched its latest open innovation challenge, Challenge LDN. This programme is run out of the Greater London Authority’s new Open Innovation Lab, which designs…Open Innovation5 min readOpen Innovation5 min read
Jan 9The London Datastore turns 13 so here are 13+ data services important to Londoners (plus, what’s next for 2023…)Today we mark the 13th anniversary of the city’s central data platform, the London Datastore and to celebrate we’ve listed 13 data-enabled services changing the lives of Londoners for the better: 1 - The London Datastore currently has around 2,000 open and non-open shareable datasets. These are regularly used by…Smart Cities6 min readSmart Cities6 min read
Dec 13, 20222022 PlaybackAs 2022 closes here’s a take on digital, data, technology and innovation delivery from City Hall on behalf of the Mayor of London… Following the path set by the Smarter London Together Roadmap, our work has been (a) a mix of core infrastructure/capacity-building plays (I often describe this as ‘fixing…Smart Cities10 min readSmart Cities10 min read
