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As a non-disruptive technology, automation helps local governments to win back time in the working day and focus on serving their community.
Three creative uses of automation in local government
It can be challenging to consider how you can apply automation without context. To help, we've compiled a list of three local government offices that have solved challenges with creative uses of automation.
Conversational AI: Speak your constituents' language (literally)
Monmouthshire Council typically takes around 50,000 phone calls a year from its community. Many of these are low-level queries - things like garden waste and bin collection days. A smaller number are more urgent and require human support to solve a complex problem or help a vulnerable person.
To make more time for urgent calls, Monmouthshire County Council created Monty - a bilingual website chatbot that can 'speak' with the community in Welsh and English.
Using conversational AI developed by We Build Bots, 'Monty' is used to instantly answer common queries and provide an excellent digital experience for constituents.
- Autonomously helped 36,405 online users and processed 232,839 customer messages
- Grown to handle 94% of website queries (which make up 54% of all queries received by the council), winning back hundreds of hours for agents at the contact centre.
- The Public Sector Pod: A monthly podcast focused on all things 'digital transformation' in the Public Sector dedicated an entire episode to Monty
- Local and industry press: Receiving a 300-word write up in the Abergavenny Chronicle and a full feature on industry press websites like GovTech Leaders
- Social media: With plenty of pictures and engagement around 'Monty' at community events
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Robot process automation: Improve CX by making the small things seamless
San Diego County's (SDC) division – the Health and Human Services Agency - uses CalWIN, a state-approved program to help with the administration of health and social programmes.
To deliver community services, agents using CalWIN must manually verify relevant information from as many as 500 different forms. This process was as time-consuming as it sounds and limited the number of service requests that SDC agents could complete in a given day.
Working with Automation Anywhere to quicken the process, SDC used robot process automation (RPA) to create a faster, more seamless experience for both agents and end-users.
Using RPA, an SDC agent can retrieve all supporting documents from CalWIN (and other relevant systems) and start a service verification process by typing a single hotkey.
Freeing more time for decision-making and saving countless hours for their 2,000 agents, SDC's automation project resulted in:
- Immediate ROI upon launching the automation programme
- A 25% rise in turnaround time
- A 30% rise in agent productivity
- Fewer human errors and zero process automation errors
Chatbots: Not just for customers
Chatbots are often considered a customer-facing tool, used in the same way as 'Monty' is on the Monmouthshire Council website. Carmarthenshire Council recognised , however, chatbots have been recognised as an invaluable internal resource to make IT support more efficient.
Repetitive and monotonous IT processes including password resets, login issues and equipment repairs are some of the most common, and take up as much as 30% of IT professionals' time.
UsingWe Build Bots' Tickit software - a helpdesk ticketing automation tool - the council deployed a conversational AI at its IT helpdesk. Users are asked a series of troubleshooting questions to help solve their problem without human intervention or creating a ticket.
In fact, Tickit's self-serve chatbot technology can accelerate up to 80% of interactions, needless of any human-intervention.
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