Digital
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What keeps Scotland connected? The hidden infrastructure behind everyday life
23rd July 2026 by deborahamzil
Robbie McGhee, Deputy Director of Digital Connectivity based within the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate blogs about digital infrastructure. More than just broadband When people ask me what I do, and what my team leads on, they tend to think about broadband. But digital connectivity is much bigger than that. It is one of the foundations on which modern Scotland relies. Every day, millions of…
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Re-use it, don’t lose it
7th March 2017 by Hugh Wallace
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…