Nick Abrahams – Fast Track: A Six-Step AI Strategy for Local Government
Artificial Intelligence offers councils opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance citizen services, and unlock new insights.
But success depends on ensuring the regulatory, ethical, and process foundations are right.
This free session – Practical AI for local government: Law, ethics, and rollouts – will provide local government leaders a clear roadmap for selecting, governing, and delivering AI projects that are legally compliant, ethically sound, and operationally successful.
Five key takeaways:
- Legal guardrails – Understand how privacy, procurement, records, and IP rules apply to AI use in councils, including the latest Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) guidance.
- Ethical frameworks – Apply the relevant AI Ethics Principles to ensure fairness, transparency, and human oversight in AI projects.
- Project selection – Use a structured scoring method to choose low-risk, high-benefit pilot projects before scaling.
- Essential documents – Prepare the core set of governance documents from AI User Guides and Governance Frameworks to Privacy Impact Assessments and citizen transparency notices.
- Rollout playbook – Follow a clear step plan to move from pilot to business-as-usual, including testing, staff training, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
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ANZSOG connects diverse people, cultures, institutions and jurisdictions. We create spaces where public sector leaders can come together to be inspired, share, learn and debate accepted practice and new ideas. We also connect senior public service practitioners and academics, and provide a bridge between theory and practice.
