{"id":4239,"date":"2022-05-06T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:16:37","slug":"unlocking-the-value-of-public-sector-data-for-public-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/2022\/05\/06\/unlocking-the-value-of-public-sector-data-for-public-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Value of Public Sector Data for Public Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guest blog by Angela Daly, Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dundee, and Chair of the Independent Expert Group for Unlocking the Value of Scotland’s Public Sector Personal Data.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Independent Expert Group (IEG) met at the end of March 2022, the first of our series of monthly meetings. For each of these meetings, we aim to write a blog to accompany the minutes, as a more accessible way to get a sense of what we discussed at the meeting, as well as some other initiatives which are influencing our thinking.<\/p>\n

The IEG is a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder group with members from different parts of Scotland and beyond. Our aim is to advise the Scottish Government about how those who hold datasets in the public sector in Scotland can make decisions about how this data is used with and by the private sector. Where this is done, it has to be in a way which benefits the people of Scotland and gains their trust.<\/p>\n

At the first IEG meeting, we introduced ourselves and spoke about the aims, objectives and processes for the IEG\u2019s and Scottish Government\u2019s work over the coming months. We also discussed some other relevant initiatives to inform our work. In this context I introduced three recent reports, not commissioned or connected to the Scottish Government, which I thought would set the scene for the group\u2019s activities over the coming months. They are:<\/p>\n