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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems: interim findings workshops
11th January 2024 by deborahamzil
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. I have been doing a research project called BIus – Basic Lawmaking for Digital Systems…
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Basic Law-Making For Legislative Computer Systems – Part 5
2nd October 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
So we have systematically rethought how we build state computer systems – but it is important to remember that the context that leads to them includes important actors who are not in the government world. The voters want things, their desires are mediated by the press and think tanks and political parties – things happen in context.
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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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