Digital

  • Online Identity Assurance – opportunity to attend next National Stakeholder Meeting

    17th October 2018 by

    As work of the Online Identity Assurance programme approaches the start of the prototyping ‘alpha’ phase next month, it’s that time again for our National Stakeholder Group  meeting. In the last blog  post, we outlined the work we were planning to do with Open Identity Exchange (OIX). Since then, the project team has held 2...

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  • Online Identity Assurance – Listening to your views

    1st June 2018 by

    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...

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  • Digital First Improvement Project.

    31st October 2017 by

    Here at the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), we have been carrying out Digital First assessments for just over a year. We have worked with a number of services since going live with our current model in January and are excited to consider whether we can make improvements to the Digital First Service...

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  • Re-use it, don’t lose it

    7th March 2017 by

    One of the underlying principles of how we work in the Digital Directorate is the concept of re-use before buy before build. Even if understanding user needs is firmly embedded into an overall approach, when it comes to technology, projects often focus on what they can ‘buy’ or ‘build’. Instead, we’ve been casting our net...

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  • Digital First Service Standard – Call for Assessors

    18th November 2016 by

    Over the last couple of months the Scottish Government’s Digital First Team have been developing and refining the assessment process for the Digital First Service Standard. The standard is a set of 22 criteria which all future central government digital public services and internal Scottish Government corporate systems will have to meet in order to go...

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  • Putting people at the heart of Digital Public Services

    12th May 2016 by

    The Digital First Service Standard sets the standard for all online services, which are to be provided via mygov.scot. It’s based along the lines of Government Digital Service’s Digital by Default but includes three extra principles around the use of open data principles, green ICT and data hosting. By applying the Digital First Service Standard, we’re...

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