LocalGov AI — Open-source AI governance for UK councils
LocalGov AI

Independent non-profit · Open-source AI governance for councils

Empowering councils to adopt AI safely, ethically, and collaboratively.

Stop reinventing the wheel. LocalGov AI is a community-run non-profit delivering free, open-source, peer-reviewed AI procurement frameworks, data-privacy blueprints, and ethical policies — co-authored by local-government practitioners.

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Why this exists

Every UK council is answering the same AI questions in isolation — the same public money, the same risk, spent hundreds of times over. Shared governance is the fix.

What the project delivers

Three ways councils move from AI hype to safe delivery.

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Interactive · AI readiness tool

Benchmark your council's AI maturity in sixty seconds.

Answer three questions across policy, procurement and data security. Your score and a tailored next step update instantly — nothing is stored.

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Indicative only. For a full assessment, book a facilitated session with a working group.

Open-source library

Download, adapt, and ship — under Creative Commons.

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In-depth frameworks & white papers

Long-form guidance you can adopt end to end.

Full playbooks and peer-reviewed white papers — read on screen or print to PDF, free to adopt across your council.

Flagship framework · New ISO/IEC 42001

LLM Acceptable Use Policy & Assessment Handbook

A complete, adoptable governance pack: the council-wide acceptable-use policy, a self-guided assessment handbook with 20 worked examples, and a full ISO/IEC 42001 controls mapping. Save the whole pack or each deliverable separately as a PDF.

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Three deliverables
  1. 01Acceptable Use Policy
  2. 02Use Assessment Handbook
  3. 03ISO/IEC 42001 Mapping
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Cross-council working groups

Build the frameworks with the people who use them.

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Common questions

What councils ask before they adopt.

Straight answers on cost, licensing, governance and how the project is actually run.

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A founding principle

Public money should build public goods — once, and for everyone.

Modelled on the open-source public-service collaboration behind projects like LocalGov Drupal. No licences, no lock-in, no vendor gatekeeping — just governance councils can trust and reuse.

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