Digital Leaders Week in Salford
Digital Leaders week has just passed and we are, once again, proud to have been able to represent Salford highlighting the digital support that is available across the city and the transformations that have occurred throughout Salford Council.
We've had a very busy year at Salford Council and we've been eager to share our progress with the public. Salford hosted a number of events over this week contributing to Digital Leaders Week.
Salford have held numerous events over the week, across all the different gateways. These events included support for anyone struggling to use their device and needing extra help learning the basics, support using different social media platforms, support using Salford Councils online forms and even how to save money by being online. We held demonstrations on how to use the Digital Everyone and BetterOff websites to show how to become better off in Salford.
1,237 people were supported with our digital services via the Gateways and Hub over Digital Leaders week.
We also had 230 new users and 650 hits to our Digital Everyone website!
Digital Leaders 100
The prestigious Digital Leaders 100 awards celebrates organisations leading digital transformation in the UK. We’re thrilled to have been shortlisted for not one but two DL100 Awards for digital leadership with our inclusion work in Salford. We were finalists and runner up for Digital Public Service Innovation of the Year and finalist for the Digital Skills or Talent Initiative of the Year award, thank you for your support and for voting for us.
Sharing Best Practices in Salford
Alongside the Gateway support and the awards we also took a part of the Digital Leaders National Events and hosted a number of virtual talks over the week from our Digital Team at Salford, all of which are below.
We started the week with Steve Fry's 'Through Leadership' presentation.
Claire Fewings along with the Digital Everyone and BetterOff team showcased the Digital Exclusion Risk Index, which was also nominated for 'Digital Public Service Innovation Of The Year'.
Matt Wall's presentation on 'Cyber Security within Local Authorities and Cultural Changes'.
We finished the week with Scott Pearson's talk on 'Building Apps to Streamline Processes with Local Authority DevOps'.
If you are interested in learning more about DL 100 2022 awards, please visit the website below.