Stockport proposes Radical Digital Strategy

Stockport Council is creating anew radical strategy to set out priority actions for digital across the borough in line with the town’s One Stockport Borough Plan.

What impact are digital and new technologies having on your business? The digital era has brought opportunities for some businesses and challenges for others. The pandemic further emphasised the importance of digital, increasing the pace of change and customer demand for digital products and services.

The One Stockport Borough Plan challenges Stockport to become a radically digital borough, and the Council’s new Radical Digital Strategy sets out how new technology can help to change the way the Council works and how it engages with people across three interdependent areas:

• Digital Communities: building digital skills and confidence and delivering technology-enabled living to increase independence;
• Digital Place: infrastructure, skills and networks for digital start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses to thrive and grow our local economy;
• Digital Council: evolving the borough’s digital offer to improve processes and the user experience.

To help support the development of the borough’s digital strategy, Stockport Council are now looking to engage with businesses to share their views on the digital-age strategies for the borough’s organisation, and that will support future growth of the local economy.

Further information, including a short video on the plans, and details of how to comment on proposals can be found on the Digital Stockport website.