Stewart Hamilton
Written 205 posts
Communications and Engagement Officer
Leveraging new technologies to shape innovative engineering solutions
28th June 2024
Guest blog by Georgia Boura, Graduate Civil Engineer, Transport Scotland. As the national transport agency for Scotland, it’s essential for Transport Scotland to understand travel behaviour across the country. The traditional way to do this is through travel surveys, however collecting data in this way is time and cost intensive and therefore these cannot be…
Technology Assurance Framework – insights on resourcing and capability
25th June 2024
Guest blog by Berit Braun, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver effectively. This blog shares our insights on the improvements project teams had to make to ensure they had the…
National Entitlement Card smart ticketing – Meeting digital standards
30th May 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. Context This…
National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing – Creating a multidisciplinary team
23rd May 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. New digital…
Scotland’s Digital Strategy – Progress report published
22nd May 2024
Blog post by Yorath Turner, Chief Operating Officer for Digital, Scottish Government. A progress report entitled ‘A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world: Progress report 2021 – 2024’ has been published on the Scottish Government website. Scotland’s Digital Strategy, “A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world” was…
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…