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
• Environmental-Audit-Committee-SDG-Response - Submission to UK Parliament: collaborative awareness raising of Scottish activity and approach
• 2019 VNR Process - SDG Network's collaborative response to DfID on Scottish engagement for the Voluntary National Review 2019

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
• Rethinking employability - ideas to improve employability support in an era of devolution and personalisation
• Rethinking health and care - ideas from a civil society perspective on reforming health care
• Rethinking the value of civil society - measure and present the impact of civil society activity better
• Post-Brexit structural funds - proposals for replacement EU funding and responses to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
• 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
• Poverty and human rights - preparing for the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur
• Brexit preparedness - checklist and resources for civil society organisations preparing for Brexit
• Third Sector Social Security priorities - enabling collaboration and information sharing on social security