by Nicola Wallace Dean | Jul 28, 2021 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
This week, Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation launched their plans for the first ever National Databank to tackle data poverty, by providing free mobile data to people in need. In this post, reposted from Starting Point’s website, Nicola Wallace Dean, founder...
by Kieran Spruce | Jun 21, 2021 | Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
When I first started out at Stockport Council I had very little knowledge of what Service Design really was. I had a degree in Industrial Design and initially applied for a role as a User Experience (UX) designer, but a fellow Brunel graduate suggested that I would be...
by Craig Hughes | Jun 4, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Stockport has launched a new open data platform called the “The Big Stockport Picture”. It is a borough wide platform for people from across the Stockport Partnership (Health, Council, Stockport Homes etc.) to share and publish information, providing more transparency...
by Sarah Burke | Jun 2, 2021 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
This week is Volunteers’ Week, a time to say Thank You to all volunteers, especially after this last, exceptionally difficult year. We would like to say a big Thank You to the Digital Champion volunteers. Digital Champions have been key to the delivery of digital...
by Alison Mumford | May 17, 2021 | Digital access, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
With contributions from Laura Hadley, Jane Taylor and Stephen Hodson, and a headline by Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Our council vision is to keep the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do. By this we mean all people. Our websites,...
by Kieran Spruce and Katy Dixon | May 7, 2021 | Collaboration, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
We’re working with colleagues in Adult Social Care on a Service Design project looking at our early intervention procedures and preventative services. It’s a complex discovery project, made even more so by the need to introduce new ways of running and synthesising...
