Sutton LBC on behalf of the South London Partnership

This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself. This award will go to the council that can best show how its use of digital technology is significantly improving outcomes for its residents and/or place. It is not primarily for a council that can show it has systematically transformed its approach to technology or has devised as solution for a specific area of its work, but it is for a council that can demonstrate how its digital acumen is transforming its local area, for instance with regards to the effectiveness of key services and how they support residents. Among the attributes you may seek to showcase in your entry are the benefits of data sharing; how your organisation is ensuring it supports people before they fall into crisis; and how ground-breaking collaboration between local partners has had a significant impact on your local population. This award is designed to recognise vision and farsightedness but may also be suitable for councils which have used their existing digital technology approach in a new or innovative way in their pandemic response.

The IoT Programme has pioneered within the South London Partnership the deployment of IoT programmes addressing real world challenges. We have deployed 43 use cases, comprising 2,900 sensors across truly diverse areas. From the outset we have focused on the ethics of deployments and maintained absolute transparency with the residents and boroughs within the five boroughs https://www.innovateproject.org/transparency-principles/ We have proven that low cost sensors can save lives, provide officers with data and insights that support informed decision making and address real world problems i.e. we have reduce fly tipping by 80% in monitored areas.