Local Government as a Platform

Local Government as a Platform

Deliver Better Services to support Local Government Reorganisation

Local Government as a platform supports reorganising the work of local government, via a network of shared APIs and commodity components, open-standards and canonical datasets, so that councils can deliver radically better services to citizens in a more sustainable way. More about Local Government Reorganisation. 

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What is Local Government as a Platform?

Government as a Platform (GaaP) was created by the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) in order to solve the most frequent challenges across the Public Sector.

By addressing these issues once and creating common, standardised and user tested components that can be used across the Public Sector, Digital Service teams are able to design and deliver digital services much faster and to a very high standard.

Quicker Service Delivery

By leveraging a low-code website engagement, content management and forms platform, councils can connect back office or cloud services to deliver end-to-end solutions.

For example, creating a booking and payment service, can leverage Jadu Forms, GOVUK Pay (for easy, secure payment processing), Office 365 Calendar (for reserving a slot), GOVUK Notify for notifications and Jadu Connect (for Case Management). 

Leveraging ‘Commodity’ Services

Local Government as a Platform calls for using a ‘Lego block’ approach to services in which government departments utilise off-the-shelf ‘plug and play’ systems that are increasingly readily available over the internet, rather than spending time and money to develop bespoke systems for each department.

These commodity-type systems would handle such functions as licensing, booking, registration, payments and case management.

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Sharing Best Practice

By sharing the best practice and innovation being rapidly developed now, we reduce the time to deliver and ensure digital services are right first time for citizens.

When we deliver digital services now, the common service patterns, eForms, workflows, widgets and apps are shared on the Jadu Library - this is where our community of users can upload and share service patterns and best practice freely.