Stewart Hamilton
Written 199 posts
Communications and Engagement Officer
Foundations of the Digital State – Independent research report published
18th November 2024
Blog post by Becca Fairless, Head of Strategy, Policy and Communications, Digital Directorate. OverviewThis is a summary of the independent research report “Foundations of the Digital State” by Gordon Guthrie, a Digital Fellow of the First Minister’s Digital Fellowship Programme during 2023-2024. The research aimed to lay out a transformative roadmap for how governments imagine…
ScotAccount – helping you access services
14th November 2024
David Duncan-Fraser, ScotAccount Service Owner, provides direction on how to use ScotAccount and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the service. This includes guidance on where ScotAccount is used within public services, and how users can be supported to sign in to their accounts and verify their information if required. ScotAccount is a new…
Moveable Transactions Project – Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) reflections
13th November 2024
Guest blog from Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO) working with Registers of Scotland (RoS) have shared some of their experiences from the delivery of the Moveable Transactions project. For this blog we caught up with the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the project, Anne Godfrey, to capture…
Trove.scot – user engagement
23rd October 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. This case study explores how the trove.scot Service Team took a user centred approach. This is the last of three case studies that have been prepared with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to capture their activities and reflections. Check out the first two case studies…
Trove.scot – working with your supplier
16th October 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Working with your supplier This case study explores how the trove.scot Service Team worked with the supplier they appointed to design and deliver trove.scot and their reflections. This is the second of three case studies prepared with Historic Environment Scotland (HES). The first, exploring…
Trove.scot – embedding the Standard and working with the assessment process
9th October 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Historic Environment Scotland (HES) care for and curate millions of internationally renowned collections and archives. As the lead public body for Scotland’s historic environment, they also play a key role in identifying, celebrating and protecting Scotland’s most significant heritage. Their records on listed buildings,…
ScotAccount – helping more people to access public services online
23rd September 2024
Trudy Nicolson, Programme Director for the Scottish Government’s digital identity programme, updates us on progress and the opportunities ahead. ScotAccount launched in February 2023 as a secure and simple way to access public services online. Working initially with Disclosure Scotland, ScotAccount has enabled people to access their disclosure results online. More recently, ScotAccount has assisted…
Moveable Transactions Project: good governance and active leadership
18th September 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Registers of Scotland (RoS) are undertaking a project to build, launch and maintain two new public Registers, introduced by the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023. The timeline for the commencement of the Registers is dependent on the implementation of secondary legislation. Read our…
Exploring public sector challenges through the lens of data: The 2024 Data Science Accelerator
11th September 2024
Blog by Joyce Dalgleish, Data Innovation and Change Lead, Scottish Government. The Scottish Data Science Accelerator offers an annual development opportunity for public sector staff to build data science skills through the exploration of a real-life public sector data challenge with the support of a mentor. On 4 September, our year 7 cohort came together to…
Moveable Transactions Project: creating a multi-disciplinary team
11th September 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Registers of Scotland (RoS) are undertaking a project to build, launch and maintain two new public Registers, introduced by the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023. The timeline for the commencement of the Registers is dependent on the implementation of secondary legislation. Read our…