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From Six Months to Six Seconds: How AI Turned Me into a Bureaucratic Superhero (And Saved My Sanity)
The Impossible Dream: Government Plans at the Click of a Button
Imagine a world where creating any report or document, in this case a council plan, is as easy as clicking a button. No more months of gruelling effort, countless meetings, or tedious data crunching. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, thanks to the power of Artificial Intelligence, this is no longer a distant dream but a tangible reality. In this weeks “what I have been doing” piece, I’ll take you through my experience of harnessing AI to revolutionize a use case for the way we develop council plans. Whether you’re a tech professional, a government official, or an AI enthusiast, I hope to show the way and inspire transformative potential of AI in streamlining local government operations and bringing about unprecedented efficiency and innovation.
Creating council plans has always been difficult, really difficult, involving extensive coordination, numerous staff members, and heavy reliance on qualitative data, multiple levels of engagement inside the organisation as well as community engagement. As a consultant working with various government bodies, I witnessed firsthand the challenges and inefficiencies of this traditional approach. It was…
