Significant progress has been made towards developing a distinctive Scottish approach to involving stakeholders, Status quo or empowering communities and citizens; including specific service problem/issue to be users, to participate in the design of public services. But there is addressed more to be done to deliver effective engagement that is consistent and inclusive and to deliver more local control. Scottish Ministers and Scottish civil society want to see a step change in society and in how the Scottish Government does its work and to energise local democracy, to put people at the centre of the way public services work so that the people of Scotland are Main Objective able to participate on a fair and equal basis in the design of Scotland’s public services and policies. This commitment identifies 3 specific strands of work for Government, working with civil society, to improve participation. We will improve citizen participation by: bringing local government functions closer to communities Brief Description of through the development of new legislation Commitment ensuring the people who use public services are involved in (140 character limit) designing them building an Open Government movement in Scotland This commitment will be guided by the Scottish Government principles for democratic renewal and public service reform as detailed above. We will engage widely on, and introduce legislation to bring local government functions, finance and democratic oversight closer to communities. Please describe the way in this commitment Commit to working with all involved in designing digital public services to ensure that the methods and tools we use for is relevant to further engaging citizens and service users in service design promote advancing OGP values Scottish Government and OGP values relating to ensuring of access to diversity and inclusion in government through information, public developing/adapting service design tools and methods, and accountability, civic publishing guidance and benchmarks. participation, and technology and Digital public services provide a key point of contact between citizens and the State as well as the means by which citizens can innovation for openness access open data and through which government can promote and accountability transparency and access. The ability to access public services (details above) digitally presents an enormous service design challenge to government, the public sector, and other actors involved in the delivery of public services. To build an Open Government movement in Scotland we will work closely with civil society to develop a clear programme over 2017 which will seek the public’s views of what an Open Government should be.
Status quo or problem/issue to be addressed Significant progress has been made towards developing a distinctive Scottish approach to involving stakeholders, empowering communities and citizens; including specific service users, to participate in the design of public services. But there is more to be done to deliver effective engagement that is consistent and inclusive and to deliver more local control. Main Objective Scottish Ministers and Scottish civil society want to see a step change in society and in how the Scottish Government does its work and to energise local democracy, to put people at the centre of the way public services work so that the people of Scotland are able to participate on a fair and equal basis in the design of Scotland’s public services and policies. This commitment identifies 3 specific strands of work for Government, working with civil society, to improve participation. Brief Description of Commitment (140 character limit) We will improve citizen participation by: bringing local government functions closer to communities through the development of new legislation ensuring the people who use public services are involved in designing them building an Open Government movement in Scotland Please describe the way in this commitment is relevant to further advancing OGP values of access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability (details above) This commitment will be guided by the Scottish Government principles for democratic renewal and public service reform as detailed above. We will engage widely on, and introduce legislation to bring local government functions, finance and democratic oversight closer to communities. Commit to working with all involved in designing digital public services to ensure that the methods and tools we use for engaging citizens and service users in service design promote Scottish Government and OGP values relating to ensuring diversity and inclusion in government through developing/adapting service design tools and methods, and publishing guidance and benchmarks. Digital public services provide a key point of contact between citizens and the State as well as the means by which citizens can access open data and through which government can promote transparency and access. The ability to access public services digitally presents an enormous service design challenge to government, the public sector, and other actors involved in the delivery of public services. To build an Open Government movement in Scotland we will work closely with civil society to develop a clear programme over 2017 which will seek the public’s views of what an Open Government should be.