This is Hounslow.Digital

This is Hounslow.Digital

Our vision is to create connected and inclusive communities in Hounslow supported by innovative and digitally-optimised services.


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Digital Team Goes Green For Nature! by Siobhan Neligan

Hounslow Council offers its employees two volunteering days each year to undertake charitable initiatives...

Hounslow Gets Digital by James Carroll

Last month I had my first experience of Hounslow Gets Digital, having started working...
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The importance of Data Storytelling

In the age of big data, it’s not enough to simply collect and analyse...

Inspiring our future generation of technicians and engineers

Our children are our future councillors, business leaders, innovators and so much more but...

Digital inclusion in Hounslow during 2022

I wrote this blog back in November 2021 Digital Inclusion in Hounslow – Hounslow.Digital...

Getting back to the office 

At Hounslow we are starting to get back to to more regular ways of...

Digital life hacks

Those tricks you love to make life easy We hope some of the following...

Exploring Hounslow in forms of a Scavenger Hunt

Data Science & Quality team venturing out into the borough...

My First 3 Months as a Cyber Security Apprentice

Short Background I’ve been interested in technology my whole life, did ICT for GCSEs...
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Exploring Hounslow’s Air Quality Data

Why Air Quality matters? It is a known fact that poor air quality is...

Building the foundations for Digital Transformation

At Hounslow we are well on the way with all kinds of exciting work...
Hand Shake - Man and Woman

World Business Relationship Management (BRM) Week

Did you know it’s World BRM Week? Within Digital and IT, as part of...

Time to Talk day 2022

I did an article in August 2020 around mental health in Digital teams –...

It couldn’t happen to me

Did you know that people are more likely to be a victim of fraud...

Digital Inclusion in Hounslow

During the last 18 months Digital inclusion challenges have been magnified which has given...
Digital Festival November 2021

Digital Festival 2021

The wait is almost over… Digital Festival Hounslow begins on Monday 1 November and...
a display of user research finding

What is user research and how can you do it well?

User research allows us to move beyond assumptions to identify how we can best...

Learn Hounslow

Digital Skills Course offer for Adults Learn Hounslow is a provider of Adult and...
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Inclusive design and accessibility

How to design and develop accessible websites? Understanding exactly how and why people are...

Understanding Machine Learning (ML) in 5 Minutes

By Ejaz Hussain – Lead Data Scientist What is machine learning? To make it...

Understanding Data Science and Data Quality

As part of the digital strategy, the London Borough of Hounslow (LBH) now have...
using figma for prototyping

Service Design – User feedback

Helping design services to make them user centred and easy to use is what...

Hounslow and Open Data

The London Borough of Hounslow is committed to playing a full part in the...

New online Registrar Services

Sue Hayter – Assistant Director of Customers, Libraries, Registrations and Culture tells us about...
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Service Design – what does this really mean for you?

LBH is taking Service design seriously – setting up a dedicated team to help...
A storyboard featuring a 5 images. In the first there is an envelope with the words anonymous survey results. In the second there is a scatterplot with a question asking "Data sloth, what does this mean?" and to the right is an image of a sloth and a speech bubble saying "I will find out". In the third image the sloth is holding a broom and cleaning up the words "data". In the fourth is an image of a decision tree with questions and yes/no branches. In the fifth, there are two profiles and each separated on a rectangle with "likes and dislikes" written below an empty profile picture

How to get the most out of your anonymous surveys

By Anna Trichkine, Data Quality Lead During a period of change, surveys are a...

First step towards data science collaboration

By Ejaz Hussain – Data Scientist and Anna Trichkine – Data Quality Lead An...
Adi Khan

My first three months at Hounslow

As the new Strategic Relationship and Programmes Manager at Hounslow, I have had a...

Fibre broadband in Hounslow

Current sites completed by Community Fibre as at June 2022 Community Fibre are now...

Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) digital workstream exciting developments… view from a Business Relationship Manager

by Hirva Shah hirva.shah@hounslow.gov.uk I work in the Digital and IT (D&IT) service as Business...

Green and Digital

At Hounslow there is a strong focus on the green recovery – this across...
An SMS Adventure

An SMS fraud adventure

A few of us began receiving SMS based fraud messages over the last few...

Customer satisfaction

As part of our dedication to customer excellence, we recently ran our second Socitm...
Children's Centre activities

Switching on Synergy for our children’s centres

On 5 November, Hounslow Children’s Centres bade farewell to EStart – a database that...

Our first ever Digital Festival Hounslow

Wow, what an incredible month November was.  What started as an idea at the...

Customer service in Digital

Listening to our customer views is so important – the teams have done a fantastic job during...

Hounslow Digital Apprenticeships by Shiza Touqeer

Around this time last year, I had just graduated from university and I was...

Designing our digitally-optimised future services

Designing our digitally-optimised future services It has been an intense but exciting six months...

Cognitive shade

As Head of Digital Services at Hounslow, continuing to look after our colleague’s mental health has been critical. The Digital...
Research Planning Session

Children’s Safeguarding project – a new way of working

The Children’s Safeguarding project is a new way of working for Hounslow, supporting our...

Cyber Essentials Plus!

Digital and IT are pleased to announce that the Hounslow Council has achieved a...

Keeping things speedy…

We’ve been very fortunate in being well prepared for the whole organisation working remotely, catering...

Running a virtual workshop using MS Teams

Hounslow Leadership Group (HLG) consists of the most senior 100 managers from across Hounslow...

Hounslow’s new Community Hub call centre

As part of the Council’s response to the coronavirus we had to set up...

Hounslow Cabinet approves the Digital Strategy 2020-2025

At a meeting of Hounslow’s Cabinet on 17 March, Hounslow Council unanimously approved our...

Draft Digital Strategy

We want to hear from you about our draft digital Strategy...