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At Play In The Garden of Eden
Hosted by Joe Tibbetts · EN
Two men, one an American Ai engineer and game designer living in Seattle and an English documentary film maker living in Dover, England in conversation about AI, documentaries, chess, human stupidity and the future of the human race.
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The English Lake District is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Sep 10, 201800:22:39Tap to summarizeKeith Jones is the Area Director (North West England and West Midlands) for the Forestry Commission England. He has been a forester for more than 37 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters. Keith was awarded an OBE in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours. He devised and helped to deliver the £59 million Newlands land regeneration scheme and Cumbria's Forest Futures rural development programme, which helped to revive the area's economy after the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease. He has worked with Alder Hey Liverpool Children's Hospital on their redevelopment scheme and was Chair of the technical advisory group for the Lake District world heritage cultural landscape bid. In this Working Lunch he tells Joe Tibbetts how the patience and pragmatism learned over a lifetime of working as a forester enabled him to stick with the UNESCO bid for more than sixteen years. Significantly the criteria for WHS status met by the Lake District could almost serve to define the parameters within which modern place "making" sits. This is all about a proud and ancient community encouraged to better understand and value their own uniqueness and place among other communities. And how that re-valuing can help in the transition from one "age" to another, accepting the opportunities of the new age but without abandoning the existing, embedded, historic values. Anyone with a personal or professional interest in place "making" should watch this genuinely inspirational story.
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Council websites will need to raise their game to meet new EU requirements says GDS accessibility chief
Sep 1, 201800:24:43Tap to summarizePeople with disabilities need to be able to use websites as easily as people without a disability. This is enshrined in the Equality Act, and website owners can already be prosecuted if they can't. However, as is explained in this podcast new EU regulations coming into force on 23 September 2018 will require most public sector websites to do more. First, all websites will have to publish an accessibility statement, and second, they will need to meet EU accessibility standards, meaning, for those that know about these things, WCAG 2.0 to level AA. Public sector websites will be subject to monitoring of their performance in meeting these requirements. Recent testing by Socitm's Better Connected programme suggests that most local authority websites do not currently meet WCAG 2.0 to level AA.
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Martin Reeves CEO Coventry and SOLACE lead on LG finance on the crisis in local government
Aug 31, 201800:26:22Tap to summarizeThis podcast was first published as a webTV programme in the summer break this year. Our invitation to Martin Reeves was triggered by his response, on behalf of SOLACE, to the Chancellor's spring Statement. We publish the podcast version now as the Budget (aka the Autumn Statement) looms on the horizon Local government is on the ropes. The coffers are empty, the assets are sold, essential services are under threat, the promised geographical "rebalancing" has failed to materialise, infrastructure is crumbling, a radical restructuring including the reform of regressive local taxation is clearly needed and yet Westminster and Whitehall seem unable to even acknowledge there is a problem.
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Cyber Crime - Andy Bates of the Global Cyber Alliance talks to Joe Tibbetts
Aug 29, 201800:05:56Tap to summarizeAndy Bates is the Executive Director of the Global Cyber Alliance tasked with fighting the systemic causes of cyber crime and fraud on the internet in Europe, middle east and Africa. Andy will be hosting a CLGdotTV broadcast from the Derbyshire Police Headquarters with special guest Peter Goodman Chief Constable of Derbyshire on Friday 7th September Peter Goodman is also the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for cyber crime. The programme on 7th September will look at recent developments in the fight against cyber crime and touch on how small and medium sized organisations need to get involved. This short podcast starts with the question "are we safer than we were a year ago?" Follow us on twitter @CLGdotTV for schedules and links for all our programmes.
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Interesting Times - Vicky Sargent & Dave Briggs No2
Aug 28, 201800:14:59Tap to summarizeDave Briggs is well known to anyone working in the local digital space, especially regular attendees at the Govcamps and Localgovcamps in which he has been a prime mover. Currently working in an interim role at Reading Council, Dave is also a member of the steering group at LocalGov Digital. He has long and varied experience in local and central government, starting out in communications and policy, rather than digital or IT. His newsletter Digital Digest is the latest of many contributions he has made to the development of thinking around councils' transformation through application of digital technologies. In this podcast, the approaches of two councils acknowledged as digital leaders are discussed. Another thing Adur & Worthing and Hackney councils have in common is a commitment to share what they are doing for the benefit of others. That provided the staring point for the conversation via a blog from Adur & Wothing's Paul Brewer and a committee paper prepared by Hackney's Rob Miller.
Transcribe →Arts and Culture are recognised as powerful drivers for cohesive, safe, sustainable communities
Aug 9, 201800:26:12Tap to summarizeBroken communities hurt the public purse, demotivate citizens and can become nurseries for gangs, terrorists, drug abuse, criminality and knife crime. We are all increasingly focussed on "place making". The term, however, is all too often used loosely. Our definition is "building environments and encouraging mind-sets that support cohesive, confident, proud and sustainable local communities". Even if we all agree on what we are talking about there are reasons to examine what the term really means as Stella Duffy points out in this programme. In the last 100 years, national and local government has all too often, destroyed, ignored and under resourced existing communities and done little or nothing to help in the development of new communities. Now we understand that broken communities can become home to disillusioned, de-motivated people un-coupled from the democratic process and sceptical of what society can offer them. Sharing creative activities can drive place making, can "pop-up" over night, can mobilise a community's own resources and produce spectacular and timely results. All the more reason then why those in power who hold the national, regional and local purse strings should support such initiatives.
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Artificial Intelligence in the delivery of Social care, social housing, mental health & council services
Aug 6, 201800:10:19Tap to summarizeI first talked to Tim Lancaster about artificial intelligence in the delivery of public services when we shared a panel at An Audience with GLGdotTV in June of 2018. We both got slightly over excited about the potential of AI in the public sector arena. It was great to talk to someone who's flights of imagination were anchored in reality and real projects so when we launched this new weekly podcast I was keen to call him up and continue the conversation.
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Quality Assurance for Care Homes
Aug 3, 201800:07:35Tap to summarizeThe CQC lays down the law when it comes to health and safety (and the comfort of residents) in care homes. Local Councils, which add their own layer of targets and regulations, test and evaluate compliance. Given the necessarily large number of regulations and the frequency of changes as new procedures and technologies are introduced this duty is a hungry monster that consumes vast amounts of human and financial resource. Heath Groves explains to Joe Tibbetts how his company Sundown Solutions, have been working with Rochdale Council to develop an online service that will save time and money and ensure that not only are the rules followed but where improvements can be found these are shared with all.
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The People Vs Tech
Aug 2, 201800:31:24Tap to summarize"At some point within the next generation the contradictions between democracy and technology will exhaust themselves......Either tech will destroy democracy and the social order as we know it, or politics will stamp its control over the digital revolution." So says Jamie Bartlett in his new book The People vs Tech - How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) Lars Malmqvist digital monster at Arcus Global and Joe Tibbetts founder of CLGdotTV try to find out if Bartlett is over-stating his case or if the dangers he sees should be taken seriously.
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Graeme McDonald of SOLACE and Andrew Haldenby of REFORM on the future for local government
Jul 26, 201800:24:37Tap to summarizeThe shift towards greater autonomy and control of budgets for local government is becalmed. At least one of today's Working Lunch guests feels that it never really got started in the first place. It seems that for the time being Westminster and Whitehall are too busy dealing with - or not dealing with according to your point of view - a little "local" excitement all their own to think about side-issues like the prosperity, health, education and security of citizens. We Brits suffer from an oppressive centralised bureaucracy. We are micro-managed and over regulated from the centre and we are far behind many of our developed-world friends in the decentralisation of power. Will the devolution thing ever get going again and if so how long will it take before it does? The public seem to have decided to be patient. Can this continue? Todays guests tell us that the last general election, intended by Mrs May to be all about Brexit, turned out to be all about health, social care, education and policing. Is this a sign of things to come? What will happen and when? Do you like moving pictures with your words watch this Working Lunch here https://lnkd.in/dnp6zmz
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