Capture best practices for working with local government stakeholders

[dingaaling]

Summary

• Inspired by this prompt from @aranas

I'm more curious to hear about your experience, what aspects of a turing project, local government is interested in: Are they usually interested in adopting & using tools developed or more on reports & information that comes out of project.
Are there any typical concerns, priorities/pain points that come up with this group of stakeholders.
Or have you in the past encountered any barriers, eg about framing of content that didn't work so well with them, that I could try to avoid. I'm more curious to hear about your experience, what aspects of a turing project, local government is interested in: Are they usually interested in adopting & using tools developed or more on reports & information that comes out of project.
Are there any typical concerns, priorities/pain points that come up with this group of stakeholders.
Or have you in the past encountered any barriers, eg about framing of content that didn't work so well with them, that I could try to avoid.

What needs to be done?

• Initial Convo to gather info
• Capture answers in an open & reusable way - TTW chapter, note on RAM repo?
• ...

Who can help?

• Anyone with experience working with local government partners
• A member from local government

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Updates

• 17 April - initial convo

[dingaaling]

@aranas here is an initial document as a starting point but I anticipate it won't fully answer your questions. Would be great to know what gaps still exist https://hackmd.io/@TuringRAMs/BJ2DUk3xR

[aranas]

thank you for creating this issue and this document, that's a great start!
I'd be interested in expanding on the Community Meetings, e.g.:

• What context around Data / technologies needs to be shared that is non-obvious to this group of stakeholders?
• Which CTAs have worked in the past (eg for BridgeAI presentation people were very interested in Turing skills training opportunities, so any link to join workshops or upcoming events would likely work well). your point on "Digital upskilling" sounds like something similar might be true for local gov.

Looking forward to expanding on this! Happy to also complement the doc myself based on the experience at the LOTI event.

[aranas]

@dingaaling could you grant me edit access to the hackmd or we move the content somewhere, then I'll add some bits based on my recent experience

[dingaaling]

sorry about that @aranas! here is the updated hackmd with permissions open to signed in users https://hackmd.io/@TuringRAMs/BJ2DUk3xR