About Lola

What is LOLA?

LOLA (Linked Organisation of Local Authority ICT Societies “LOLA”) is a loose grouping of Associations that share common values which include:

  • Delivering public services
  • Publically accountable
  • IS/IT management
  • Share experiences – good and bad
  • Share best practice
  • Try to avoid re-inventing the wheel
  • Voluntary contributions

Associations which share these common values will understand the value of working together in a way that will improve the services that are delivered to the Citizen.

At the 2002 London Internatonal Workshop entitled “Learning From Each Other”, it was agreed that a closer working relationship between individual Local Authority ICT professional associations through a “Society of Societies” would be of benefit to these organisations, their members and the citizens they serve. This is a loose arrangement with no formal (e.g. legal or financial) implications, hence the “concordat” approach

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