Helping people take part in research and events
Making events more accessible This blog is by Dr Philip J Kirk, Senior User Researcher in the Digital Directorate. As an organisation providing services for citizens, we’re responsible for making...
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Inviting BSL users to take part in research and events
Dr Philip J Kirk, Senior User Researcher, writes about how the Digital Directorate is helping to make events more accessible for the British Sign Language (BSL) community. As an organisation providing...
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Making our data machine readable
The Data Standards team are based in Atlantic Quay in Glasgow and are working to improve the interoperability of public sector data by helping computers understand what our data means. So much data and...
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Champions in action: my reflections by Dean Rhodes
It’s hard to believe it’s June, but here we are. We’re officially at the halfway point of 2019 and in this month’s blog, our Agile coach Dean Rhodes takes the centre stage. In this blog Dean...
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Scottish Approach to Service Design: Creating Conditions for Change
This blog is by Dr Dhruv Sharma, User Reaserch Lead at the Scottish Government. Amongst all the exciting stuff I do within Scottish Government’s Office of the Chief Designer, one crucial part of my job...
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Increasing diversity in the digital profession
A post by Colin Cook, Director Digital, Scottish Government. Over the past year, the division heads and I have been looking at ways that we can improve diversity within the digital directorate. Alan...
View ArticleOnline Identity Assurance – Join us in our proof of concept phase
Organisations involved in digital identity are now being invited to get involved with the forthcoming Alpha phase of the Online Identity Assurance project. As we highlighted in our last blog, we have...
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CivTech® 5.0 is coming: how you can apply
Blog by Joe Tree, Head of Product and Accelerator, CivTech®. If you’re an innovator, entrepreneur, team, start-up or established company, CivTech offers an unrivalled opportunity to develop a product...
View ArticleOnline engagement event: Reflections of being Webinar host
Guest blog by Carol Sinclair, Strategic Data Adviser for the Scottish Government and Independent Chair of the Health and Social Care Data Board. Determining the best point in time to bring in wider...
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Global Ethics Day, Public Engagement and the Ethical Use of Data
Today (19 October) is Global Ethics Day, which this year celebrates the theme of Ethics Empowered. In this blog Ally McAlpine, Chief Statistician for the Scottish Government, discusses Global Ethics...
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