Stewart Hamilton
Written 214 posts
Communications and Engagement Officer
Planning – insights from the Technology Assurance Framework
29th January 2025
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Planning is one of the Scottish Government’s programme and project management principles and is described as ‘considering all aspects of our projects and continuously planning, managing dependencies, agreeing and refining evidence based assumptions, and reporting on progress against milestones throughout.’ Planning has been identified…
Statistics.gov.scot Improvement Project – Discovery
23rd January 2025
Blog by Auren Clarke, Senior Product Manager in the Digital Directorate’s Open Data Team, Data Division. I work in the Scottish Government’s Open Data team, and we are responsible for maintaining Scotland’s Official Statistics platform statistics.gov.scot. Last year, we gave an update on the work of the open data team – we are focused on…
Unlocking the Value of Scotland’s Data – Response to report published.
16th January 2025
Blog by Chris Bergin, Strategic Data Policy Adviser, Digital Citizen Unit. The Scottish Government has published its response to the report by the Independent Expert Group for the Unlocking the Value of Data programme. The programme is exploring how the public sector can responsibly unlock the value of the personal datasets they hold – securely,…
ScotPayments – Building our own in-house technical capabilities
9th January 2025
Blog by Megan Abbott, Lead Business Relationship Manager in ScotPayments, sharing an update on progress and how the team have been working on their own internal transformation by building in-house technical capabilities. Here at ScotPayments we focus a lot on how we are supporting the digital transformation of public services in Scotland. By thinking about…
ScotPayments Design in Action (Part 2: Inclusive Payments)
7th January 2025
Blog by Ryan Bowler and Fiona MacLellan to highlight ScotPayments UCD team deep dive into Inclusive Payments and why payment choice matters. Inclusive Payments We shared a post previously which introduces our User-Centred Design team and our iterative design process. Here we are with part 2 in our Design in Action series, with more on…
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…