A Public Setor Nomads and Public Networks collaboration bringing you a fantastic mobile working event.
Date to be confirmed shortly (late April) at Birmingham City Football Club.
Full details coming soon!
All Change! New Horizons for Local Government
December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Digital Nomads Limited is supporting Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands (IEWM) in the running of a major conference at Warwick University, on 9 December 2011.
With a strong focus on the changing landscape for Local Government this event will include contributions from a broad spectrum of high profile speakers, an innovation market place, round table discussions, interactive workshops and much more including a ‘taster’ ‘unconference’ session.
Carolyn Downs, Incoming Chief Executive of the Local Government Group will give the headline keynote address. Further speaker and workshop details are here.
IEWM are seeking to explore the use of social media in the promotion of the event and extending its reach, as well as facilitating sharing and further collaboration.
Digital Nomads have set up a LiveBlog to enable people inside and outside the conference to share in, influence and cascade the results of the day to the wider local government community.
Visit the LiveBlog to read all about the day through various posts, tweets and updates or watch the keynote speakers, live via the video feed. If you tweet, you can participate directly by tagging your messages with #allchange11 somewhere in the tweet.
London Council’s
June 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Nomad was delighted to support Capital Ambition and Croydon Council run a mobile and flexible working event for London local authorities. The intention being to share best practice and present and further seek input into a ‘heat map’ illustrating the maturity of mobile and flexible working across London Councils.
This event aimed to achieve the following objectives;
- To present the findings of the heat map and establish a common understanding of mobile and flexible working across London;
- To see where the gaps lie (issues faced) in progressing mobile and flexible working;
- To share lessons learnt and best practice stories around implementation;
- To identify and learn from the more advanced Boroughs in mobile/flexible working;
- To network and build relationships with other London Boroughs and support one another in establishing efficiencies, and;
- To discuss technology and delivery partners, experienced in mobile and flexible working.
The event was splendidly captured graphically (click to enlarge image);
Attendees
- 50 Local Council attendees (across 25 Boroughs)
- 4 speakers (Aiden McManus – Croydon Council, Ken Eastwood – Public Sector Nomads, Andrew Richards – Hammersmith & Fulham and Grace Addy – Croydon Council)
- Sponsors (BT, Capgemini, Kirona, NDL and O2)
- Event co-ordinators (Claire Corbett, Charlotte Stothert and Emma Pluck)
Observations
The event went very well and successfully explored common issues and barriers to implementing mobile working and flexible working. The workshop sessions were particularly useful with a number of participants able to enrich the debate with their specific experiences. It was clear that a number of authorities are engaged in quite radical accommodation projects and a number of others expect to be shortly.
There was an appetite on the day to develop closer collaboration and a platform to exchange and share experiences and best practice. Southwark Council, for example, described a manager workshop programme that had successfully encouraged buy-in and understanding of mobile and flexible working. Materials and experiences like this need to be shared across the public sector to avoid duplication of effort.
Panel Discussion
The event concluded with an open panel Q&A session, again expertly represented graphically;
Next Steps
- To explore a buddy-up system whereby councils agree to provide support to others less experienced in mobile & flexible working implementations or to align councils who are at the same stage of implementation;
- Consider a follow up event, and;
- Develop an online forum to enable information to be accessible and provide a platform for open discussion and networking between councils.
The relaunch of our website includes a new membership forum and we hope to be supporting London Council’s on this agenda going forward.
SmartGov Live (FREE Event)
May 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The UK’s leading government IT event
IT is at the heart of cost savings across the public sector, with the joint challenges of reducing costs within IT whilst enabling your organisation to deliver services more efficiently.
SmartGov Live will provide you and your colleagues with the latest insights and information shaping IT today, together with the opportunity to meet new and existing suppliers in one place. Click here to register FREE now.
- Meet innovative suppliers showcasing cost effective IT solutions
- Listen to the most influential figures from public sector IT in the Government Talks -including a session with Ken Eastwood, founder of Public Sector Nomads, about mobile and wireless working.
- Discover how IT can transform public services in our Best Practice Seminars
- Explore the Open Government feature area showcasing cost effective and practical Open Source software
- Enter our Open Source Solutions Awards to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes
- Gain FREE entry to Smart Healthcare Live and The Public Procurement Show – both co-located with SmartGov Live
Follow us on twitter for the latest show news and join our LinkedIn group in order to participate in pre-show discussions with speakers and delegates.
If you only attend one event this year, make sure it’s SmartGov Live 2011. Click here to register FREE now.
Mobile Working Seminars for Social Care
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
These free supplier events from Consilium may be of interest to public sector NOMADS working in social care;
Access to information is vitally important to the role of a social worker. A client’s background, history and assessments are fundamental to the care they receive. Yet, many social workers have very limited access to information when outside of the office.
To resolve this issue, Consilium have launched their TotalMobile Solution for the Social Care Sector. To coincide with this launch, Consilium will be hosting Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminars and Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars across the UK.
These seminars will detail how Mobile Working could help remote Social Care workers to access the information they need in the most secure way possible and reduce personal admin hours. The benefits of Mobile Working for domiciliary care workers will be outlined in the Adults Services seminar. Consilium will also discuss how mobile technology can improve personal safety for lone workers and could save money for Social Care departments.
The events will take place on the follow dates:
Tuesday 17th May- Leeds City Museum, West Yorkshire
Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminar: Morning
Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars: Afternoon
Thursday 19th May- Spring Grove House, West Midlands Safari, Worcestershire
Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminar: Morning
Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars: Afternoon
These events are free of charge and will include lunch and refreshments. Attendees are invited on a tour of the Museum / Safari Park (please confirm at time of booking).
Essential to anyone involved in improving Adult or Children and Young Peoples Services. Don’t miss you chance to attend an inspirational conference, which will empower you to implement changes that will have a positive impact on the services you provide.
To secure your place, please call Anna Mulvenna on 02894 480000 or email Anna.Mulvenna@ctechs.co.uk
London Council’s Event
April 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
13 April 2011 09:00 – 13:45
Capital Ambition commissions a wide range of projects that focus on making efficiencies and improving services to tackle many of the issues facing local authorities in improving life for Londoners.
Supported by Public Sector Nomads they are organising a mobile and flexible working event for London’s Local Authorities.
Event Objectives:
- To establish a common understanding of mobile and flexible working across London Councils
- To share lessons learnt and best practice stories for either people, processes or technology surrounding the success of mobile and flexible working
- To identify the current leaders in mobile and flexible working
- To identify possible efficiency savings and productivity gains due to mobile and flexible working
- To network and build relationships with other London boroughs and to support one another
- To discuss technology partnerships and delivery partners that are experienced in mobile and flexible working.
Croydon Council have been leading on a project focusing on the creation of a ‘heat map’ which will capture the level of mobile and flexible working currently across all London boroughs. The heat map will be made available at the event and there will be ample opportunity to network and to discuss how a community of interest around new ways of working can be sustained across London.
Agenda
09.30 – Opening session – Introductions by Capital Ambition, Croydon Council and guest speaker, Ken Eastwood, Public Sector Nomads
10.00 – Workshops – Mobile and flexible working and home working workshops to consider the people, process and technology factors involved (45 minutes each)
12.15 – Lunch – Buffet style, with opportunities to chat with other council representatives
12.45 – Panel discussion – Open Q&A with the leaders of the workshops and a technical sponsor representative
Download the event flyer here.
There are 60 free spaces available on a first come, first served basis. Due to limited spaces, there will be a no show fee of £20.
Contact charlotte.stothert@croydon.gov.uk to reserve your place.
The event is being supported by a small number of carefully selected suppliers who will exhibit and participate in the final panel discussion.
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