{"id":5066,"date":"2024-07-11T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:20:44","slug":"back-to-the-future-building-a-vision-for-public-sector-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/2024\/07\/11\/back-to-the-future-building-a-vision-for-public-sector-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future: Building a vision for public sector data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blog post by Albert King, Chief Data Officer, NHS National Services Scotland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, The Scottish Government put out a call inviting people to come together to co-create a long-term vision for public sector data in Scotland. This is clearly something people care deeply about as we had a great response, from which, 30 individuals working in public, private and third sector, across a range of organisational sizes and scopes became the Horizon Group, each bringing a rich range of experience and expertise.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Together the group have just completed the third of three workshops where they considered what living in Scotland might be like in 2044 – 20 years from now; 2038 – 14 years from now; and 2031 – 7 years from now. For each workshop members were \u00a0provided with scenarios of possible futures (speculative fictions) along with pre-reading and views from people including Mariana Mazzucato, Indy Johar, Roman Krznaric, Galit Ariel and Shannon Vallor to guide their thinking.<\/p>\n

As you might be able to tell, being on the Horizon Group was no small undertaking! Not only did members give their time, they also had to be open to some intensely interactive workshops that took them into some different ways of thinking.<\/p>\n

Throughout, this framework of guiding principles was helpful to test that thinking:<\/p>\n