Digital

  • ScotAccount – helping more people to access public services online

    23rd September 2024 by

    Trudy Nicolson, Programme Director for the Scottish Government’s digital identity programme, updates us on progress and the opportunities ahead. ScotAccount launched in February 2023 as a secure and simple way to access public services online.  Working initially with Disclosure Scotland, ScotAccount has enabled people to access their disclosure results online. More recently, ScotAccount has assisted…

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  • ScotAccount – Usability by design and default

    2nd August 2024 by

    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…

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  • Call for action from the Digital Directorate. Can you help us to build a public participation platform?

    31st July 2024 by

    Blog by Michaela Omelkova, Data Ethicist, Data Division. In the Scottish Government, we believe that actively listening to and acting on public opinion is essential to good governance. Public participation is after all a key aspect of modern democracy, and one of the building blocks of our trustworthiness.   At the moment, the Scottish Government uses…

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  • Finding public sector data

    23rd June 2021 by

    Hi, my name is Shona Nicol, and I head up a team in the Scottish Government’s, Digital Directorate, that covers technical data policy, from data standards, open data to data innovation, and I’d like to share the details on a recent CivTech Challenge that I’m sponsoring. The Challenge is ‘How do we use technology to…

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  • Digital Strategy Consultation – No one left behind

    19th October 2020 by

    In a recent blog, we introduced the consultation for the new Digital Strategy for Scotland and highlighted why it is so important for people across the country to have their voices heard. This is the first blog in a short series taking a look at the key themes raised within the strategy and hear why…

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  • Scottish Digital Academy – Adult Learners Week 2020

    9th September 2020 by

    Blog by Enoch Kabalo, Assistant Business Manager and Joyce Dalgleish, Associate Agile Coach – Scottish Digital Academy. As this is Adult Learners Week, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to reflect and share what we do and what is happening in the Scottish Digital Academy to support learning and development. Here at the Scottish Digital…

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  • The Civtech Alliance

    1st September 2020 by

    Blog by Alexander Holt, Head of Strategic Partnerships, CivTech Alliance. The CivTech Alliance is a newly-formed worldwide network of public, private and third sector organisations working across Civic and Gov tech sectors, supporting and developing products and services which make citizens’ lives better. This network acts as a peer-to-peer support network, hosting weekly video conference…

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  • Meeting the CivTech challenge: Wallscope and mygov.scot

    20th December 2017 by

    This is a guest blog post by Emma Findlow, Communications Manager at Wallscope – one of the businesses taking part in this year’s CivTech digital accelerator programme. We live in a world where volumes of information are rapidly growing. This can leave us increasingly uncertain that we’re finding the right information – especially when we’re…

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