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description: Dr Gavin Beckett leads Placecube's product management and user experience design teams, working with customers to understand the problems they need to solve, and collaborating with them to develop solutions in Placecube's Digital Place software as a service products, built on Liferay DXP. Digital Place offers a rapid way for organisations across the private sector, local public services, health, housing and communities to adopt open standards and open source based digital services, co-designed with customers, for re-use.  Prior to joining Placecube, Gavin spent 20 years in UK local government, where in his roles as Chief Enterprise Architect and Chief Digital Officer he led the design and delivery of digital services to improve residents and businesses experiences. (2)
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# Evolving Digital Place

 By Dr Gavin Beckett

 07/06/2024

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## News, Insights & Media

Stay informed about best practices from our latest insights, news and media.  
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## Posts by Dr Gavin Beckett:

[![](https://blog.placecube.com/hs-fs/hubfs/How%20can%20open%20standards%20and%20reusable%20cubes%20help%20solve%20problems%20for%20local%20places%3F1-1.png?width=365&name=How%20can%20open%20standards%20and%20reusable%20cubes%20help%20solve%20problems%20for%20local%20places%3F1-1.png)](https://blog.placecube.com/blog/how-can-open-standards-and-reusable-cubes-help-solve-problems-for-local-places)

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## [Can open standards and reusable cubes solve problems for local places?](https://blog.placecube.com/blog/how-can-open-standards-and-reusable-cubes-help-solve-problems-for-local-places)

Let’s look at the value of creating a product as a standards-based cube. Take the idea of a service...

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 Apr 25, 2019, 7:32:00 PM

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## [Why do we need a new approach to digital?](https://blog.placecube.com/blog/why-do-we-need-a-new-approach-to-digital)

People who know local government often say that a standardised solution will never work, because...

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 Apr 17, 2019, 10:48:00 AM

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