Initiatives in Scotland

Open Government movement building (networks)

 * Open Government Network Scotland steering group
 * Sustainable development goals networks in Scotland
 * Open Government Network Scotland Meet-ups - Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow
 * Scottish data partnership - Bringing together the data community in Scotland
 * Open Glasgow - Planning for Glasgow's Open Government movement

Sustainable development goals development

 * Scotland's Open Government Pioneer action plan 2017 - civil society input
 * Scotland's Open Government Action plan for 2017/18 - civil society input
 * Globalgoals.scot - Digital platform and Accessible digital platform development enhancements‎‎
 * Equalities events in Scotland - ethnic minorities, disabilities, young people
 * UK conference planning - Scotland contribution
 * Scottish Institutional transparency - Making Scotland's public institutions more transparent and open
 * Youth voice in an open democracy - initiative to support young people to use open government approaches


 * Rethinking a sustainable economy - Sustainable Development Goals and changing the way we think about economy.
 * Applying systems theory to the Sustainable Development Goals - knowledge base being developed by a community of practice
 * Scottish Workshop Proposal to the Open Government Partnership International Conference 2018 in Tblisi, Georgia

Civil society collaboration

 * Future of civil society - assessing the future operating environment for the sector, and how we could respond
 * Policy groups Scotland - list of all known Scottish Government and public sector working groups that engage civil society
 * Mapping the activity of third sector intermediaries in Scotland - crowdsourced grid
 * Stronger partnerships - Optimising collaboration between Government and third sector
 * Rethinking automation - Artificial intelligence, automation and the third sector
 * Rethinking Charity Tax - ideas to improve charity taxation in an era of devolution and digitalisation
 * Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scotland - reviewing the legislation in 2018
 * Community development and Self-directed Support - development project led by SCVO with support from Scottish Government
 * In Work Poverty - the impact of Universal Credit
 * UK Society Lotteries - reviewing the rules 2018