Digital
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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems – Part 4
25th September 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Scottish Government, Research Fellow, Gordon Guthrie. Gordon is a Research Fellow at the Scottish Government under the First Minister’s Digital Fellowship Programme. All opinions in this blog are his own and they do not represent Scottish Government policy. This is the fourth of five articles outlining the research of the Blus project – Basic…
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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems – Part 3
11th September 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
If we are to make the production of digital systems explicit we need to every participant to be able to understand their role – and critically that means making the technical decisions visible and comprehensible.
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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems – Part 2
4th September 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
This is the second of five articles outlining the research of the BIus project – Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems. Read the first here – it outlines the problems of connecting slow legislative iteration to fast digital development processes.
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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems – Part 1
28th August 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
We know that the law and government is also an iterative process. Laws are passed, and retrospectively amended. Acts of parliament (primary legislation) grants Ministers powers to make and remake law by orders (secondary legislation) and civil servants the powers to write and rewrite ordinary regulations.
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Recommendations from COP26
8th July 2022 by Stewart Hamilton
We’ve had further discussions with round table attendees and relevant digital and climate change experts about the top ideas that came out of each round table theme. After these discussions concluded, each of the top ideas was thoroughly investigated and then presented as recommendations to Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy and Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport. These recommendations that are detailed below, were all accepted by both Cabinet Secretaries.
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Service design and COTS products
24th February 2022 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Serena Nusing, Senior Service Designer, Digital Directorate. Often, when organisations start a new IT project or require new software, there is a question about whether to build the solution themselves or to buy it. When it comes to the buying option, organisations are then often presented with a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) product that…
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Reflections on our Digital and Climate Change COP 26 roundtable
17th November 2021 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Sam Cox, Policy Officer, People, Strategy, and Corporate Services Division. In my last blog post, I walked you through the work that we had been doing in the lead-up to our round table at COP26 and why this work is important. The roundtable took place on 2 November in Scotland’s Climate Ambition Zone…
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Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation programme – Update
17th November 2021 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Sam Cox, Policy Officer, People, Strategy, and Corporate Services Division. At the end of my last blog post about my experience on the Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation programme, I had recently completed my first two face-to-face learning sessions, one coaching session, and a variety of collaborative team meetings surrounding our group…
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The Truth of Designing Services
12th November 2021 by deborahamzil
In this blog Sam Ernstzen, Digital Service Standard Assessor within Scottish Government’s Directorate for Internal Audit and Assurance, and Serena Nusing, Senior Service Designer, based within Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate share with you five truths about designing services. Being experienced service designers we see very common things across projects. We thought sharing what we see…
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Digital and Climate Change – COP26 round table
28th October 2021 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Sam Cox, Policy Officer, People, Strategy, and Corporate Services Division. The climate emergency has not gone away and the Scottish Government remains absolutely committed to a just transition to net zero emissions by 2045. It is incumbent on us, therefore, to transform industries to change the course of climate change and to lay…
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