Digital
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Digital Identity Scotland – OIX White Paper
3rd July 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
The recent conclusion of our Alpha phase is the culmination of several months’ work to understand and test some specific ideas related to digital identity in more detail. We are grateful to all stakeholders who have assisted us in this important phase of the digital identity programme. So what have we learned and what are...
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Champions in action: my reflections by Dean Rhodes
18th June 2019 by Enoch Kabalo
It’s hard to believe it’s June, but here we are. We’re officially at the halfway point of 2019 and in this month’s blog, our Agile coach Dean Rhodes takes the centre stage. In this blog Dean highlights his experience attending the Scottish Digital Champions programme, the lessons learned and the interesting ways they are...
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Making our data machine readable
7th June 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
The Data Standards team are based in Atlantic Quay in Glasgow and are working to improve the interoperability of public sector data by helping computers understand what our data means. So much data and information is available to us everyday but it’s not always in a format that we, the public, or computers (that act...
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Digital Identity Scotland – Learning from our stakeholders
31st May 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
For more than a year now, our National Stakeholder Group has proved an important sounding board for the Digital Identity Scotland programme team’s work. Much has happened since our first meeting in February 2018. From gaining some wider perspective on ideas we have been exploring, to individuals and organisations working closely with us to explore...
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Payments Project – Bidder Day
30th May 2019 by Clare Mills
The project is now looking for partners to deliver the alpha phase and is holding a bidder day on Wednesday 19th June, 10:00 – 13:00 in Civtech, Edinburgh. The attendance will be limited to 2 individuals per organisation and to book your place please use this Eventbrite link. The day will cover the following...
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Payments Project – Secondment Opportunity
23rd May 2019 by Clare Mills
We’re looking for a Principal Architect to join the Scottish Government Payments Project team on a secondment basis for up to 23 months. In September 2018, the Scottish Government set up a small team to take a closer look at how we make and receive payments, initially with the aim of creating a robust...
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Digital Identity Scotland – User research on the road, part 2
12th April 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
Welcome to this latest update from the Digital Identity Scotland team, fresh from a field trip to bonnie Inverness. As you may have read in some of our previous posts, we have a very active strand of user research ongoing, to ensure our programme receives broad input from groups who would be likely to use...
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Digital Identity Scotland – User research on the road
21st March 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
Welcome to this latest update from the Digital Identity Scotland team. From a user research and business analysis perspective, a lot of our recent work has focussed on understanding the various interests of service provider organisations in digital identity. This is a key area for our programme, for it is vital the process of proving...
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Payments Project – Introducing the Payments Project
12th March 2019 by Clare Mills
by Hugh Wallace In September 2018, the Scottish Government set up a small team to take a closer look at how we make and receive payments. This includes people from across the organisation to ensure we have the right skills and knowledge in the team. This is part of a much wider programme of public...
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Scottish Government to host International Design in Government Conference
27th February 2019 by Kate Lyne
Announcement from Sarah Davidson, Director General for Organisational Development and Operations. I am delighted to announce that Scottish Government will host the International Design in Government conference in Edinburgh on 25 – 26 June. The International Design in Government conference brings together an established community of designers working in government across the world....