Category: GovTech

A parents’ portal transforming school communications, online natural environment licensing tools protecting species and a virtual reality guide for police recruits will be recognised next week at an annual awards…

A new permanent secretary has been appointed by the Scottish Government to lead the civil service in Scotland. Joe Griffin will take up the role on April 7 following the…

Scotland’s future economy should be driven more by the application of technology in existing industries than ‘pure tech unicorns’, a leading Labour Party politician has said. Daniel Johnson, Scottish Labour’s…

A Scottish local authority implemented over 150 changes in a week to a new AI-powered call handling system as a council officer said: ‘It continues to learn.’ Renfrewshire council is…

Artificial intelligence is being used to spearhead a range of cutting-edge solutions in Scotland’s public sector – from reducing cancer risk for firefighters to monitoring puffin colonies. Fourteen companies on…

The Scottish Information Commissioner used ChatGPT to experiment with making freedom of information requests more comprehensible to the public. David Hamilton said the AI-powered tool actually made some ‘legalistic’ FOI…

A new software platform has been launched by the winner of a Scottish innovation challenge programme to better manager the registration process for tobacco and vape retailers across the country….

The Scottish Government has signalled its intention to produce a fresh national digital strategy four years since the publication of ‘A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital…