Digital Identity Scotland
Written 28 posts
Online Identity Assurance – Pre-Alpha
27th July 2018
Hello and welcome to the Online Identity Assurance team’s latest blog post. As you may have read in our earlier posts, the team is working to develop a common approach to online identity assurance for access to public services. This is the process where a person seeking to access a public service digitally can sign…
Online Identity Assurance – an open approach
22nd June 2018
Our Online Identity Assurance project is in the final stages of its first phase, ‘Discovery’. Great – but what have we learned during that Discovery phase? Earlier this week, the project team – in the spirit and practice of Open Government – discussed our service design and technical options research with members of our National…
Online Identity Assurance – Listening to your views
1st June 2018
As we enter June, preparations are now in full swing for the next Online Identity Assurance National Stakeholder Group meeting on Tuesday 19 June. At that meeting, people who use Scottish public services, representatives of organisations that provide them and anyone else who wants to attend will get the latest update on what we in…
Online Identity Assurance – approaching the next phase
18th May 2018
As the Online Identity Assurance project gets set to enter its next phase, recent activity has been focussed on capturing what we have learned since the project kicked off last year. Past months have seen the Scottish Government project team work closely with members of the public, a range of partner organisations and technical specialists…
Online Identity Assurance – focus on technical
13th April 2018
As you will have seen from our earlier blog posts, our work has been focussed so far on understanding the challenges associated with developing a common approach for online identity assurance in accessing public services. ASE/Consult Hyperion are providing support in identifying the technical options for this work. Here, Steve Pannifer from Consult Hyperion offers…
Online Identity Assurance – welcoming expert and stakeholder input
6th April 2018
Some of Scotland and the UK’s leading minds on the issue of identity assurance have been brought together to support the delivery of the Online Identity Assurance (OIA) project. The inaugural meeting of the OIA Expert Group on Thursday 29 March was one of two key gatherings that took place last week, as the end…
Online Identity Assurance – Show and Tell
19th March 2018
In what feels like no time at all, we are approaching the end of the first phase of our work to develop a common approach for online identity assurance in accessing public services. As we set out in our Programme Plan, within our initial Discovery phase, we have been researching and scoping out the challenge…
Online Identity Assurance – What have we been doing? Come see for yourself
1st February 2018
It’s been a busy start to 2018 for the online identity assurance team. Thank you for all your initial feedback on our first blog. We value the input of everyone with an interest in this work. So what’s been happening? As mentioned in our project plan, we are now well into the first phase of…