Community Action Plan

Building a Scottish

Digital

Nation

Platform Design for a
21st Century Digital Economy

ARTICLE & WEBINAR SERIES

Building a 21st Century Digital Nation in the Cloud

A Digital Nation leverages technology infrastructure to transform society, including governance, education, healthcare, and commerce, shaping the economy of a country, driving innovation, creating opportunities, and enhancing global competitiveness.
A digitally literate population capable of leveraging technology for personal and professional growth. Digital Services: Government services, e-commerce platforms, and online education are essential components of a Digital Nation.
A Digital Nation provides a platform for growing the economy of a country in several ways, increasing productivity through automation across industries, and creating new job opportunities in areas such as software development, data analytics, and digital marketing. Entrepreneurship: Digital platforms enable entrepreneurs to reach a global audience and scale their businesses rapidly. Global Competitiveness: A digitally advanced nation is more competitive in the global market, attracting foreign investment and fostering innovation.

Digital Economy Foundations

Digital Public Infrastructure

A key headline theme is ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’ (DPI).
This refers to the platform provided by the government to facilitate the nation’s digital economy, leveraging technologies like Identity and IoT to enable a wholesale digital ecosystem of services and transactions.

Our Digital Nation program provides the combined community and technology activities required to define and deploy DPI solutions in practical terms.

Technology Innovation

Blueprints for harnessing new technologies spanning 5G through the Metaverse.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Build GovTech commercialization programs with industry clusters and startup accelerators.

Identity & Blockchain

Foundational technologies include Digital Identity and the Blockchain, which provide the building blocks for next generation applications across multiple use cases.

Artificial Intelligence

Ai is a transformational technology that can revolutionize the way governments operate, providing opportunities to enhance public services, improve decision-making processes, and increase efficiency.

Digital Business Models

Blueprints for harnessing new technologies spanning 5G through the Metaverse, to power innovative new capabilities in key areas of the digital economy, including Education and Healthcare.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Build GovTech commercialization programs with industry clusters and startup accelerators to foster the required collaborations between private, public and academic sectors.

Thought Leadership

Community Action Plan

The ever accelerating capabilities of Internet technologies enable the smallest to the largest organization transform themselves in ways they never thought possible.

Digital Experts can help you plan and navigate this transformational journey, adopting the right technologies to achieve key business goals such as growing sales, optimizing operations and building high performance teams.

Embracing and mastering this new paradigm will equip organizations with a heightened capacity for collaboration and innovation.
A DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is a digital entity that operates on a blockchain through smart contracts and decentralized governance.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

A Blueprint for Cloud-Powered Digital Government

Azure Blueprints: Open Sourcing Best Practices

We explore and define the component parts of a Digital Government business and technology architecture model and best practices.

Next Generation CRM

Pioneers like Aberdeen City Council are streamlining their ‘Digital Front Door’ with AI Chatbots, enabling citizens to help themselves to round-the-clock support.

Azure DXP

As the name suggests a DXP provides a central platform for all ecosystem stakeholders to uniformly share data.

Citizen Identity

Governments across the world are implementing digital identity metasystems that facilitate the core login functions and enable interoperation between online applications, setting in place the keystone foundation for the Web 3.0 economy.

Digital Government is achieved through unifying a number of technologies, spanning Identity, Cloud, and others, synthesized together through agile development and deployment practices.

Through documentation of public sector case studies from around the world, keynote expert contributions and vendor capability analysis we distill a complete transformation and implementation blueprint for governments.

These are mapped to Azure component combinations that enable deployment of that blueprint.

Ebook

Azure for Government

Digital Government Best Practices with the Microsoft Cloud

The 21st Century will see dramatic changes in how citizens expect to be served digitally, and the technology innovations available to achieve this.

In the era of Web 3.0, where technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data are reshaping industries, governments are also facing new challenges and opportunities in the digital realm.
In today’s digital age, governments worldwide are embracing digital transformation to enhance service delivery, improve efficiency, and foster citizen engagement. A well-executed digital government strategy can revolutionize public administration and create a more responsive and transparent government.
By following this blueprint for digital government best practices, governments can drive innovation, improve service delivery, and build trust with citizens in the digital era.

Thought Leadership

In our series we explore and define the component parts of a total Digital Government business and technology architecture model and best practices.

Read the article series.

Enabling citizens to help themselves to round-the-clock support, “AB-1” handles queries on topics such as refuse collection, school term dates and council tax.
Governments across the world are implementing digital identity metasystems that facilitate the core login functions and enable interoperation between online applications.
HMRC’s Multi-channel Digital Tax Platform (MDTP) employs Continuous Delivery at scale, operating a cloud platform for over 130 user-facing applications powered by over 1000 microservices.

Solution

Guide

The Solution Guide details the core Azure services, implementation best practices, and how they can be augmented by partners.

This addresses a complete scope of work from initial requirements through solution design and ongoing support, and the full suite of technology components needed for a wide spectrum of use cases.

Download the Guide

A detailed Buyers Guide guide to Azure Government solutions, covering Costings and ROI, Technical Architecture Blueprints and Adoption Maturity Model and Roadmap.

Join our webinar series for thought leadership keynote presentations on Digital Government innovations.

Directory

Listings of Azure Partners who
specialize in Public Sector solutions.

Sentinel Partners are data and systems integration specialists. As a Microsoft Partner they are part of the native Azure Data Service Stack.
Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform gives customers the ability to understand their data by connecting siloed systems and visualizing complex relationships.

Idemia have integrated with Entra, to provide liveness and document verification technology. The company provides public sector Identity solutions such as automated passenger gates for foreigners arriving at Singapore’s Changi airport.

Services to support your strategy and transformation.

Digital Government Solutions

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