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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Scotland.
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- eGovernment - Scotland - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment activities in Scotland.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Scottish Executive - Archive
- The Scottish Executive has released in 2004 details of the programmes that will benefit from the £30 million third round of its Modernising Government Fund.
Added: 24 November 2005
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- Scotland considers expanding use of tablet computers for schools
- Government to look at how mobile devices including iPads could be rolled out to more learners in the country. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Thursday 17 May 2012. "The Scottish government has announced plans to explore the option of rolling out more mobile devices in education institutions to enhance learning. Education secretary Michael Russell revealed the plans on a visit to a primary school in Edinburgh, which is already using technology such as iPads. He said that the government will take stock of how such schemes are working and consider how they could be used on a wider scale..."
Added: 22 May 2012;
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- Wi-Fi on trains: the tech behind Scotland's expanding wireless web
- Those involved in Scotland's Wi-Fi on trains pilot talk about the challenges around connectivity and how they're planning for 4G, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Monday 19 March 2012. "The Scottish government moved a step closer towards its ambition of delivering Wi-Fi throughout the country when it recently announced a pilot of free wireless access on trains..."
Added: 28 March 2012;
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- DirectScot
- "DirectScot is the experimental prototype of a public service website for Scotland. It offers access to information, services and applications from a wide variety of sources. It aims to be simple, intuitive and to put the needs of users first. We stress that this is an experimental prototype. Please don't rely on it. At this stage it is neither comprehensive nor is it fully robust. Developed by the Scottish Government, DirectScot is a response to the ongoing debate on how government services can be delivered efficiently in the digital age..."
Added: 13 February 2012;
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- The DirectScot experiment: Inside Scotland's new public services hub
- The Scottish government's director of digital explains why distance and cost have inspired the project to develop a single site for all services, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 8 February 2012. "Given the remoteness of large parts of Scotland, the country is a prime candidate for channel shift - moving government services to being primarily delivered online. DirectScot is the recently launched "experimental prototype" portal that aims to bring the country's government services, information and apps together on a single online hub..."
Added: 13 February 2012;
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- Scotland launches experimental DirectScot information portal
- Online services hub aims to cut costs and make it easier for citizens to find information, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Friday 13 January 2012. "The Scottish government has launched an "experimental prototype" portal that brings together information on all its services, with the aim of making it easier for citizens and businesses to find out about government services. The DirectScot.org site will allow people to look for information from different Scottish government departments in once place using content aggregation and a location based search engine..."
Added: 10 February 2012;
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- Scottish Government Response to the McClelland Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland
- The Scottish Government, Edinburgh, September 21, 2011. "... John McClelland's Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland was published in June 2011 and I welcomed the publication and confirmed we would consider the recommendations and set out our response in detail. This paper does that. The review concludes that overall ICT investment in the public sector during 2008/09 was around £1.4bn and more than 60% of that expenditure was with industry suppliers. In addition the cost to organisations of the ICT staff was approximately £250m. There are clearly opportunities to reduce spend by improving our approach to engaging with suppliers and procurement across the public sector and by sharing and integrating our ICT requirements and support..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- Scottish ICT industry faces up to national strategy
- Suppliers question whether the Scottish Government has shown sufficient ambition in its plans, by Les Shortall. Guardian Professional, Friday 4 November 2011. "In the wake of the McClelland report on the use of ICT by the public sector, the Scottish government is taking steps to implement the report's recommendations for a national ICT strategy for Scotland, beginning with the setting up of structures and governance..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland
- Report by John McClelland C.B.E. on his Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland. June 2011. "... The review covered the health service; local authorities; Scottish Government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies; police and fire services and also universities and colleges which, although not formally part of the public sector, rely on government funding for the majority of their income... The overall purpose is to review the strategic management of investment in Scottish public sector information and communication technology ( ICT) infrastructure, reporting on how best to deliver improved value for money and support multi-agency working and shared services..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- Digital Participation Charter
- The Scottish Government, News Release, 7 November 2011. "The Scottish Government, leading private sector firms, academic institutions and charities have signed up to Scotland's Digital Participation Charter. The Charter, signed by founding partners including Microsoft, BT Scotland and Patient Opinion, involves making a commitment to share information and align resources and efforts to deliver shared digital participation outcomes over the lifetime of this Parliament. It was signed today on behalf of the Scottish Government by Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop at the UK's first national GovCamp event in Edinburgh..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- GovCamp Scotland - 7 November 2011
- "GovCamp Scotland is based on an established international model that applies a Government context to evolving Web 2.0 technologies and examines innovative ways to improve service delivery and engagement with citizens. It rests on three central pillars - Transparency, Collaboration and Participation - and advances the case for academia and the private , public and third sectors to align behind the shared outcome of creating a Scotland that is well positioned to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the digital age..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- Planning for Gov 2.0
- by Mike Burton. LocalGov.co.uk, 26 October 2011. "... The purpose of GovCamp Scotland is to bring together key sectors of the country including, government, academia, industry, new media, civil society, and non-traditional groups that seldom come to together in one room to discuss the different ways Gov 2.0 can improve citizen engagement and services in Scotland. Gov 2.0 is the application of social media and web 2.0 technologies to the government context with the goal of improving service delivery and engagement with citizens..." GovCamp Scotland takes place on November 7 at JMCC, Edinburgh University.
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- Scotland's NHS 24 launches digital TV channel
- New TV channel will pilot GP bookings and repeat prescriptions, as well as providing patients in Scotland with health advice, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, 30 September 2011. "NHS 24 has launched a new health information channel on three digital television systems, in a bid to improve access to advice for those without internet connections..."
Added: 6 October 2011;
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- Scottish internet domain name bid launched
- By Magnus Bennett BBC Scotland news website, 24 June 2011. "Campaigners are launching a bid to secure Scotland's own internet domain name. The move by Dot Scot Registry follows a decision by a global internet body to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22. The Scottish government said it supported the bid for a .scot domain..."
Added: 26 September 2011;
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- eHealth Strategy 2011 - 2017
- National Health service - Scotland - The Scottish Government, Edinburgh 2011. "... Our vision for 2017, and this second eHealth Strategy for NHSScotland, is ambitious; it has the citizen at the centre and seeks to build on the significant progress we have made over the course of the last three years. Rather than focusing on products and technology, we will instead look to the benefits and outcomes experienced by the people of Scotland flowing from eHealth enabled service re-design and quality improvements. Five new strategic eHealth aims have been developed and these will be the focus of our activity over the next six years. They are: supporting people to communicate with NHSS; contributing to care integration; improving medicines safety; enhancing the availability of information for staff; and maximising efficient working practices..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- Scotland publishes new eHealth strategy
- Scottish government outlines plans to get patients more directly involved in their own healthcare by focusing on outcomes from eHealth technology, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Monday 12 September 2011. "Scotland's NHS will switch its focus from new technology projects, to the benefits and outcomes they deliver to healthcare professionals in helping them redesign and improve services, the Scottish government has said. The government's new eHealth strategy for 2011-2017 outlines a number of key priorities to help patients get more engaged with the health service. These include..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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