Digital
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Sharing and Reuse Conference: Bucharest 2019
21st June 2019 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Sophie Finlayson, Scottish Government – Data, Statistics and Digital Identity Division. We wanted to share a few of the highlights from the European Commission’s Sharing and Reuse Conference which Roger Halliday and the Data Standards team attended in Bucharest last week. What’s it all about? The European Commission run a programme called ISA2...
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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 linked...
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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 areas:...
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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 business...
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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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Digital Identity Scotland – Workshop insight
28th February 2019 by Digital Identity Scotland
Graduate Fast Streamer Madeleine Fleming has been working with the Digital Identity Scotland team to support the design of the team’s programme for the last six months. As she prepares to leave the team at the end of her placement, Madeleine reflects on one of her final tasks – to deliver a service providers workshop....