South Lanarkshire Council has confirmed a brand new digital technique for the following 5 years.
It was accredited on the full council assembly on June 15 and is aligned with the council plan and the nationwide technique, which was printed by the Scottish Authorities in March final yr.
The brand new technique will construct on earlier accomplishments and concentrate on service transformation utilising digital applied sciences.
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A key ingredient of the brand new technique is cyber safety – as methods transfer to the cloud and companies are accessed throughout the web, it is very important place safeguards to guard towards cyber assaults.
The technique is aligned to the Scottish Authorities’s Digital Technique “A Altering Nation: How Scotland Will Thrive in a Digital World”, which was printed in March 2021 and developed collectively with COSLA.
It describes a imaginative and prescient of embracing digital know-how to ship higher outcomes for all Scotland’s residents, and it consists of digital inclusion to make sure that nobody is left behind within the digital age.
This technique units out how South Lanarkshire Council plans to make use of new applied sciences to assist ship its goals of bettering the standard of life for everybody within the space.
Chair of the finance and company assets committee, Councillor Lesley McDonald (Larkhall), stated: “There have been main technical advances in a number of areas because the final Digital Technique was printed in 2017.
“The pandemic has in fact resulted in a rise in distant working, each throughout the council and with our many companions.”
Councillor McDonald added: “It describes how companies can be delivered as “Digital First”, however we may also guarantee nobody is left behind as digital companies are launched. This may embrace working with companions to enhance digital connectivity and supporting initiatives to ship free public wi-fi and person units.
“We may also be sure that initiatives implementing new know-how take account of influence to customers and workers on the strategy planning stage, totally practice workers as a part of all new know-how introductions and put customers on the coronary heart of latest know-how initiatives making it as straightforward as potential to make use of.
“The technique additionally units out the technical foundations obligatory to grasp the council’s digital imaginative and prescient.”
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