by Lee Emery | Oct 19, 2020 | Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t just claimed lives. For people who can’t use digital to communicate, to shop and to manage their everyday lives, it has also stolen their independence. Get Online Week hopes to change that. Get Online Week, held annually since...
by Kathryn Rees | Oct 16, 2020 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
It is Digital Leaders Week and an opportunity to learn and share the digital innovation that is happening across the public sector and beyond. We are excited by our digital journey in Stockport and were proud to be named a finalist in the Digital Leaders Smart City...
by Emily Wilson | Oct 13, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Workforce Development
As the dark nights draw in and we spend more time indoors adjusting to the new way of working in this weird new world, digital skills, or a lack of them, feels more significant than ever. We’ve gone from meeting our friends in the pub, to meeting them online and...
by Stephen Hodson | Oct 9, 2020 | Digital Stockport, Service Design, Transactional Services
Earlier this year, through the mapping and design of end to end journeys, we identified common service patterns, such as check, book, or pay for, that required the creation of a bespoke online form. In our earlier blog about Formbuilder we described how we have...
by Kieran Spruce and Luke Price | Sep 25, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Service Design
Stockport Council’s ‘Strategy and Reform’ and ‘Design’ teams were previously two separate teams that worked in similar ways. The Strategy and Reform team helps to deliver transformation and the strategic priorities of the authority. This involves providing programme...
by Ryan McMurdo | Sep 18, 2020 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Starting Point have been the community partner in Stockport’s DigiKnow Alliance since March 2018. Since mid-April, when we moved our learning onto Zoom and offered remote digital support, we have offered over 130 organised Zoom sessions. This has seen hundreds of...
