On\u00a016 November SCVO hosted an evening\u00a0of talk and discussion on digital participation.\u00a0Chris Yiu, SCVO’s Director of Digital, introduced the evening by asking where we go next with\u00a0Scotland’s digital participation movement. \u00a0Sarah Davidson – Director General, Communities at Scottish Government – gave us an overview of how\u00a0the digital agenda supports our vision for Scotland’s future. Finally\u00a0Rachel Neaman – CEO at Go ON UK –\u00a0explained why\u00a0digital leadership matters.<\/p>\n
It was encouraging to hear Sarah reiterate that digital is not about IT or technology: it’s about people and participation and is a vital part implementing the Christie Report’s recommendations\u00a0about person-centred services, collaboration and co-production. \u00a0If we are to advance\u00a0engagement and empowerment, people need access to the web and the skills to use digital tools and services.<\/p>\n
Rachel Neaman agreed with and amplified\u00a0Sara’s point\u00a0that\u00a0that digital<\/em> is not the same as\u00a0technical<\/em>. \u00a0Pondering what we mean\u00a0by digital\u00a0leadership she suggested dropping the digital:<\/em>\u00a0it’s just leadership. Digital, she argued, will be the guiding principle and we might think in terms of building ‘digital DNA’. In other words, digital is just how we do things, but there are cultural\u00a0barriers, particularly in enabling the workforce to participate. Digital services, she said, improve customer satisfaction as well as job satisfaction. Yet unless the CEO ‘gets it’ then it will fail, because the\u00a0digital strategy\u00a0can’t be left to the IT department.<\/p>\n Readers of this blog will be familiar with this line of reasoning. You don’t need to be technical but you do need to understand the application of technology and the transformational power of digital.<\/p>\n More about the event on Storify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On\u00a016 November SCVO hosted an evening\u00a0of talk and discussion on digital participation.\u00a0Chris Yiu, SCVO’s Director of Digital, introduced the evening by asking where we go next with\u00a0Scotland’s digital participation movement. \u00a0Sarah Davidson – Director General, Communities at Scottish Government – gave us an overview of how\u00a0the digital agenda supports our vision for Scotland’s future. Finally\u00a0Rachel… Read More »Celebrating digital scotland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}