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Digital Strategy

Meeting: 06/02/2019 - Cabinet (Item 86)

86 Digital Strategy for Gloucester City pdf icon PDF 119 KB

To consider the report of the Cabinet Members for Performance and Resources  and Regeneration and Economy seeking to identify a digital strategy for the City of Gloucester and the Council.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

(1) Marketing Gloucester Ltd’s vision document (Appendix 1 of the report) be welcomed as a starting point upon which to develop a comprehensive digital strategy for Gloucester and the Council;

(2) the priorities for a digital strategy for Gloucester, as set out in paragraph 3.9 of the report be agreed; and

(3) Officers are asked to work up a more detailed draft Digital Strategy (including a supporting action plan), with colleagues from Marketing Gloucester Ltd, Gloucestershire County Council and elsewhere, for consideration by Cabinet.

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Members for Performance and Resources and Regeneration and Economy that sought to identify a digital strategy for the City of Gloucester and the Council.

 

The Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources thanked officers and Marketing Gloucester Ltd. (MGL) for the vision document that she commented would become the basis for a robust action plan to benefit the city long into the future.  The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economy noted the five strategic digital priorities for Gloucester proposed in the report (3.9) and the importance given to digital inclusion for all people in Gloucester.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure drew Members’ attention to the importance of a good digital strategy to culture.

 

RESOLVED that:

(1) Marketing Gloucester Ltd’s vision document (Appendix 1 of the report) be welcomed as a starting point upon which to develop a comprehensive digital strategy for Gloucester and the Council;

(2) the priorities for a digital strategy for Gloucester, as set out in paragraph 3.9 of the report be agreed; and

(3) Officers are asked to work up a more detailed draft Digital Strategy (including a supporting action plan), with colleagues from Marketing Gloucester Ltd, Gloucestershire County Council and elsewhere, for consideration by Cabinet.