Digital Glasgow Board
The Digital Glasgow Board oversees the development and implementation of the Digital Glasgow Strategy.
Board Membership
The members of the Digital Glasgow Board are;
- Councillor Paul Leinster (Chair)
- Councillor Angus Millar
- Councillor Kieran Turner
- Councillor Elaine McSporran
- Councillor Anthony Carroll
- Councillor Jill Pidgeon
- Colin Birchenall (Chief Digital Officer)
- Laura Heggie (Head of Strategic Information, Innovation and Technology)
- Kimberley Hose (Head of Business Intelligence)
Purpose
The role of the Digital Glagow Board is to;
- To provide strategic leadership, engage with elected members, council officers and other relevant stakeholders as the Board sees fit, to develop the Digital Glasgow Strategy
- a. This strategy and associated action plan will then be submitted to the City Administration Committee, and the
relevant City Policy Committees, for agreement.
b. The Board will ensure that there is sufficient evidence collected to allow this Council to perform its scrutiny function
in the implementation of the action plan, and will provide further reports to the City Administration Committee.
c. The Board will work on a cross-cutting basis with the relevant City Policy Committees, Conveners, services, ALEOs
and the City Administration Committee to review and assess the implementation of the Digital Glasgow Strategy.
d. The Board will ensure that the application of digital technology is scrutinised in terms of protecting privacy, security
of systems and data, equality, and, for non-personal data, promoting openness and transparency.
e. The Digital Glasgow Strategy will include:
i. Maximising the opportunities presented by digital technology to empower communities and citizens, transform
public services, further digital inclusion, so as to promote inclusive economic growth, deliver broader improved
outcomes for citizens and, fulfil other priorities laid out in the Council's strategic plan.
ii. Identified priorities for investment in digital assets across the Council family, and work to ensure that these
investments are scalable, resilient, reliable, and secure and comply with legislation.
iii. Identified priorities for investment in digital infrastructure across the City to enable and promote greater
investment into the City. - To provide regular assessment of the potential opportunities presented by digital technology, outwith those presented in the Strategy document;
a. recommend ways that this Council may exploit those opportunities.
b. And present those recommendations for agreement to the relevant City Policy Committee and/or, if necessary, the City Administration Committee. - To identify and recommend opportunities to attract digital investment to the city.
- To provide leadership and forward thinking approaches to develop partnership working across the Council family, within the wider Glasgow community, and outwith the city's boundaries.
- To provide oversight of marketing and promotion of Glasgow's digital ambitions and achievements.
- To establish Working Groups as deemed appropriate, and for a limited time period, in order to take forward specific pieces of policy review or development which will then be reported back to a full meeting of the Board, the relevant City Policy Committees of this Council and then, if appropriate, the City Administration Committee.
Papers
Papers presented to the Digital Glasgow Board are published here.
2021
Board Schedule
The schedule for the meetings of the Digital Glasgow Board for 2021 is as follows;
- Digital Glasgow Board Papers
- 29th March 2021
- 1st July 2021
- 24th August 2021
Terms of Reference
The Terms of Reference for the Digital Glasgow Board are available here
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Documents
- Digital Glasgow Board Terms of Reference (PDF) [203KB] (opens new window)
- Digital Glasgow Strategy 2018-2023 (PDF) [347KB] (opens new window)
- Digital Glasgow 2020 Review (PDF) [3MB] (opens new window)
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