Stewart Hamilton
Written 180 posts
Communications and Engagement Officer
Security by design and default – ScotAccount
16th May 2024
Laurie Brown, Digital Information Security Officer, provides strategic information security direction, assurance, and governance across a number of Scottish Government digital public services including the work to introduce ScotAccount. ScotAccount is the secure and simple way to access public services online. It makes accessing services easier because you can use one account to sign in…
ScotPayments Design in Action (Part 1: Introduction)
15th May 2024
Blog by Fiona MacLellan and Cal Marr to celebrate ScotPayments milestones including £40 million with our Design in Action blog post series. Our team have a few milestones to celebrate this week! On 15 May 2024 ScotPayments service processed our 100th payment run, which means we’ve sent over £40million across 20,000 payments since we launched…
Moving open data forward – the Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities of Open Data for Producers, Users and Leaders
8th May 2024
This blog has been written by Martin Macfie, Head of Open Data in the Digital Directorate’s Data Division, in which he discusses recent work to better understand the benefits, challenges and opportunities of Open Data. What we’ve been doing We need to be more strategic in the way we approach the publishing, messaging and culture…
Data maturity information sessions for public sector organisations
1st May 2024
Blog by Sally Kerr, Data Transformation Lead in Digital Directorate’s Technical Data Policy team. Better use of data is fundamental to driving efficiency and innovation in our public services and our economy, to deliver better outcomes for the people of Scotland. For public sector organisations to understand how to use their data effectively, it is…
Technology Assurance Framework – Governance and project control
24th April 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework, share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes. This blog shares our insights relating to governance and project control. This is our fourth…
Digital connectivity – Janet’s Story
16th April 2024
Blog by Karen Tease, Communications and Engagement Executive, Digital Connectivity Division. Continuing our recent R100 blog series here is a great story about Janet from Duns in the Scottish Borders, and how the programme got her connected. The Scottish Government’s R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (R100 SBVS) has helped thousands of people connect to faster…
Digital connectivity – Connectivity at Seaton Estate
10th April 2024
Blog by Karen Tease, Communications and Engagement Executive, Digital Connectivity Division. Continuing our series on the story of the Reaching 100% (R100) programme, our second blog is about one of the registered suppliers on the programme. A supplier is a company that is part of the R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) who can…
Digital connectivity – The story of the Reaching 100% (R100) programme
4th April 2024
Blog by Karen Tease, Communications and Engagement Executive, Digital Connectivity Division. This is the first blog in a short series providing background and updates on the R100 programme. Bringing superfast broadband to Scotland is one of the most ambitious infrastructure programmes in Europe and as such, digital connectivity is a key part of the Digital Scotland…
ScotPayments – Confirmation of Payee has launched
28th March 2024
Blog by Megan Abbott, Lead Business Relationship Manager, ScotPayments. In our last blog, we shared a progress update for ScotPayments, a new payments service being designed and built by the Digital Directorate. Since then, we have gone live with our new feature Confirmation of Payee. Confirmation of Payee helps users verify that they are sending…
Census 2022 – Go live checklist
20th March 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office have been working with the National Records of Scotland (NRS) to capture and share some of their experiences from the delivery of the Census Programme. This is the eighth in a series of case studies. You can read the earlier…