With sector-wide shifts in the way housing providers manage risk, integrated and innovative technology will be vital in helping them to adapt to new demands, keep track of data and prevent duplication or errors. For large-scale projects, organisations can struggle to manage large quantities of data. A surprising number of organisations are still reliant on…
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We’re in this together…
What a very strange world we are living in right now. As I type this, I am sitting opposite my son who is doing his school work online, I have a daughter upstairs who is now not sitting her GCSEs and is missing her friends and I have a wife who is a frontline medical…
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What is GIS and why use it?
At the Housing Technology 2020 conference at the beginning of March, delegates learnt more about GIS and how one housing provider, Orbit, was using this technology to make huge savings of £11 million. This article is an abridged version of Cadcorp and Orbit’s presentation at Housing Technology 2020. What is GIS? Any data with a…
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Learning from coronavirus – Sector-wide IT collaboration?
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb As we all grapple with the impact of coronavirus, it’s obvious that we are ‘stronger together’. The crisis has illustrated that the housing sector and its various ecosystems are mutually interdependent and must collaborate. The absolute need…
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Using IT to tackle our biggest challenge
We began testing our strategies for full remote working several weeks before the government announced lockdown. With our systems in place, our entire team was encouraged to work remotely a week before the lockdown order. Business as usual monitoring was carried out over the first week to ensure everything we do could be done and…
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Ethical IoT for housing
The internet of things offers significant opportunities for improving the lives of those in social housing and for service provision. The University of Bristol, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Believe Housing, Bromford Labs, Homelync and Bristol City Council’s City Innovation Team are conducting research to ensure our work is ethically sound and leads to beneficial outcomes…
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