Digital

  • Unlocking the Value of Scotland’s Data – Response to report published.

    16th January 2025 by

    Blog by Chris Bergin, Strategic Data Policy Adviser, Digital Citizen Unit. The Scottish Government has published its response to the report by the Independent Expert Group for the Unlocking the Value of Data programme. The programme is exploring how the public sector can responsibly unlock the value of the personal datasets they hold – securely,…

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  • Designing with purpose and empathy

    15th January 2025 by

    Guest blog post from Emma Jones, Content Design Lead, Social Security Scotland. Good content design is about making the user experience simple.  We need to design to help people do what they need to do, and no more. We need to focus on the purpose. Finding (and sticking to) the true purpose can be hard…

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  • Building confidence in content design

    18th December 2024 by

    Guest blog from Claire Robertson, Senior Content Designer, Social Security Scotland. Over the next few months, Social Security Scotland will be sharing a series of blogs from our User Centred Design team. We’ll give an insight into our ways of working and share some examples of our collaborative, user-centred approach. At Social Security Scotland, working…

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  • A shared destiny for public sector data

    18th October 2024 by

    Blog post by Shona Nicol, Head of Technical Data Policy, Data Division, Digital Directorate. As a data professional, it can sometime feel hard to get others interested in data. Perhaps like many in this profession, I can often express the importance and value of data for good in an overly technical way. However when our…

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  • Exploring public sector challenges through the lens of data: The 2024 Data Science Accelerator

    11th September 2024 by

    Blog by Joyce Dalgleish, Data Innovation and Change Lead, Scottish Government. The Scottish Data Science Accelerator offers an annual development opportunity for public sector staff to build data science skills through the exploration of a real-life public sector data challenge with the support of a mentor.  On 4 September, our year 7 cohort came together to…

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  • Creating inclusive digital experiences: how Accessibility Cloud can help us all improve accessibility

    10th September 2024 by

    This blog has been written by Mark Palmer, Accessibility Lead, Digital Directorate, to announce the roll out of Accessibility Cloud to public sector organisations. Accessibility Cloud is now available for automated testing As Accessibility Lead I’ve seen first hand the challenges we all face when creating digital experiences that are truly accessible to everyone. We…

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  • Variables added to the Scottish Government Design System Figma Kit

    6th September 2024 by

    Blog by Kevin Allen, Lead Graphic Designer, Digital Services Division. We are very happy to announce the latest update to the Scottish Government Design System Figma Kit, bringing the kit in line with our refreshed styling guidance and the most up to date design features in Figma.                …

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  • Next-Generation Metadata Catalogue: Revolutionising Data Discovery in the Scottish Public Sector

    3rd September 2024 by

    Blog by Masood Alam, Chief Data Architect, and Catherine Ojo, Lead Data Scientist, from the Scottish Government’s Data Division. In a time when data drives decision-making, the Scottish public sector is making a significant move with the prospective development of a state-of-the-art Federated Data Catalogue and Metadata Repository, using machine learning & graph analytics. This…

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  • Open Data in Scotland : A Blueprint for Unlocking Innovation, Collaboration and Impact

    29th August 2024 by

    This blog has been written by Martin Macfie, Head of Open Data in the Digital Directorate’s Data Division to announce the publication of an independent report on open data for the Scottish Government. Publication of report In May 2024, I wrote a blog which outlined Scottish Government commissioned research to better understand the benefits, challenges…

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  • Digital programme – Digital Scotland Service Manual

    30th July 2024 by

    Blog by Thomas Ozers, Senior Delivery Manager, Digital Scotland Service Manual team. Hi there! A very warm welcome from the Digital Scotland Service Manual team to our blog! In this first one, we’re keen to outline what the manual is and who it is for, and outline some of the key pieces of work we’re…

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