Digital
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New digital strategy for Scotland – consultation launched
1st October 2020 by Christina Stokes
We’ve launched a consultation on a new Digital Strategy for Scotland. Public Finance Minister Ben Macpherson and COSLA resources spokesperson Cllr Gail McGregor explain why this is so important. Digital technologies are transforming the way in which people live their lives across Scotland. They are also playing a central role in a continued focus on…
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SG payments project – Keep on collaborating
30th September 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Fiona Maclellan, Senior Service Designer, Product and Commercial Division. The SG payments project has taken a user-centred approach since it began in 2018. This has involved working closely with users through the Discovery phase, our Alpha build and as we prepare for our next phase. We recently posted about the project’s progress, and…
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Scottish IT company donates laptops to victims charity
18th September 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Emma Dalley, Project Delivery Officer, Product and Commercial Division. The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has highlighted the most vulnerable people in society. If you are young, healthy and your only complaint is cabin fever, then you’re extremely lucky. When the Covid-19 outbreak began the Digital Directorate set up a landing point web page as…
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The life of Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB)
10th September 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Fiona Smith, Head of Communications, Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband. “Fiona, how can you not know where Dumfries and Galloway is!?” That is what my geography teacher asked in sheer disbelief in the early 90s. That memory came back to me, as I organised what will be one of the last photo calls and…
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Scottish Digital Academy – Adult Learners Week 2020
9th September 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
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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Connecting Scotland – Phase 2 update
31st August 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Katie Lyne, Communications and Events manager, Office of the Chief Designer, Digital Directorate. More and more our lives are being lived online. Be it a video call with our families, work colleagues, ordering prescriptions or doing the weekly shop. And, increasingly, public and private services, are moving online, particularly during Covid-19. For the…
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Digital Triage for Covid-19
14th August 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Liam Anderson, Business Analyst, Product and Commercial Division. Before the UK was put into lockdown, the Product and Commercial Division, based in the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate, were mobilised to form a Digital Triage Team. The Covid-19 pandemic triggered an extraordinary demand for digital solutions for health, digital health, economy and education, with…
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SG Payments Alpha & beyond
12th August 2020 by Fiona MacLellan
Blog by Fiona Maclellan, Senior Service Designer, Product and Commercial Division. In 2019 we announced our payments project and introduced the team working on it. Since then we’ve not given you an update on this blog, but that doesn’t mean things have stood still. We’ve been busy building a prototype digital service, as an Alpha…
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Understanding Digital Transformation
6th August 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Elaine Burgess, Service Owner, Digital Transformation Service. The world is changing at a rapid pace. People around the globe have become used to accessing the services they love at the touch of a button, from online banking to online shopping. This has raised citizen’s expectations about the services they receive from Government and…
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Learnings from our discovery project on the future of a Digital Publishing Service
7th July 2020 by Stewart Hamilton
Following up on their last blog post, Chris Dixon, Delivery Manager, and Serena Nüsing, Service Designer, share what they’ve learned from completing a discovery project on the Digital Publishing Service. To investigate what a future Digital Publishing Service might look like, we started the discovery by asking ourselves: “How might Digital Publishing Service support policy…