Digital

  • Prototyping a life events model for mygov.scot

    23rd March 2016 by

    This is a blog post by the mygov.scot team. life event. noun. a major event that changes a person’s status or circumstances, such as giving birth, getting married, getting divorced, dealing with the death of spouse or losing a job. Life events are often discussed in terms of stress. Our team has been exploring how...

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  • Adding support for victims and witnesses on mygov.scot

    23rd March 2016 by

    This is a blog post by the mygov.scot team. In 2015, the Scottish Government announced a number of changes to improve the help and support available for victims and witnesses of crime in Scotland. This includes giving victims and witnesses better access to information – and we’ve been working with the Scottish Government’s Justice Directorate...

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  • The Digital Participation Challenge Fund 1 ½ years on

    14th March 2016 by

    It’s been 18 months since the launch of the first round of the Challenge Fund back in 2014. Since then 84 projects doing fantastic digital inclusion work in Scotland have been supported by funds from the Scottish Government, with some additional support from BT Scotland. As well as helping people to get online, these funds...

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  • Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) and the Digital Transformation Service

    19th February 2016 by

    Over the past year, the Central Government Digital Transformation Service (DTS) has worked with a number of Central Government organisations including the Scottish Public Pensions Agency. Read how Ross Paterson, Chief Exec @ SPPA found the work of the service below, and how a user centred approach to design challenged the way in which they...

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  • One Digital – creating digital champions across the Third Sector

    18th February 2016 by

    This is a guest post by Beth Murphy, One Digital Project Manager, SCVO On Thursday 11th February we launched One Digital – a new project funded by The Big Lottery Fund and led by SCVO to support people from across society who struggle with Basic Digital Skills. We know that 72% people who lack basic...

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  • Social Housing – “Connecting the Unconnected”

    12th February 2016 by

    Getting online has never been more important.  Being able to access the internet can open up a whole world of opportunities.  Many of us take it for granted that we can click on the web and shop cheaply, check out the latest job sites, discover key information for our studies or work, book a cut-price...

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  • Transforming Digital Public Services: Working with the Digital Technologies Industry Conference

    17th December 2015 by

    Attracting around 150 people from Scotland’s vibrant digital tech and ICT industry, this event explored the opportunities and challenges in transforming digital public services through collaboration with the industry. Everyone was encouraged to share their ideas on how government, the public sector and industry can work more closely, and strategically, in delivering this important agenda,...

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  • Supporting Scotland’s businesses

    11th September 2015 by

    Over the last 100 days, we’ve been finalising what’s needed to close the Scottish Business Portal and move the website’s content and tools on to mygov.scot. The portal (business.scotland.gov.uk) was originally designed to bring business service and support information into one place – pulling content via an API from partner websites like Business Gateway, Scottish Enterprise,...

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  • Open Badges at CoderDojo Scotland

    17th November 2014 by

    Activities at CoderDjo Scotland

    A guest blog from Craig Steele, Project Manager at CoderDojo Scotland CoderDojo is a global movement that aims to get more young people involved with computer programming and technology. We run computer coding clubs for young people where they can learn to build their own apps, websites, games, and more. Our workshops are run by volunteers...

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  • Scotland’s Digital Future: Data Hosting and Data Centre Strategy for the Scottish Public Sector

    23rd October 2014 by

    Why do we need a strategy? The Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland report by John McClelland found that the public sector in Scotland maintained a large estate of data centres and that significant efficiency and energy savings could be achieved through their consolidation. In response to this and other recommendations...

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