Who We Are

We are the Digital Office. Leaders of digital transformation and delivery across Scottish Local Government.

Founded in 2016, we support Scottish local authorities with their digital transformation journeys. We translate and align the actions within the National Digital Strategy into collective and scalable initiatives. You’ll find us hosted at COSLA in Edinburgh, but our staff are based from home and work across the whole of Scotland. 

Adopting a “Once for Scotland’ approach to digital transformation, our Digital Partnership helps local authorities to harness the full potential of technology, driving service delivery, enhancing outcomes, and efficiencies. In effect, doing more with digital. 

Our dedicated team works closely with local authorities across Scotland, providing the leadership, guidance, resources, and expertise needed to navigate the complexities of the ever changing digital landscape. We understand that each council has unique challenges and priorities, that’s why our approach is always tailored to meet specific needs, ensuring our digital delivery is always with a human by default, data, digital and technology by design.

Our Role

As agreed by SOLACE in April 2021, the role of the Digital Office is to:

“Ensure that the infrastructure and capabilities are in place to help councils increase the pace of digital transformation and to deliver on the ambitions of the National Digital Strategy for Scotland.”

The Digital Office delivers on this purpose by operating at three distinct levels: National, Sector and Council, and by fulfilling four key roles.  These four roles are all underpinned by collaboration and partnership between councils and our local government partner organisations.

Our Action Plan

Developed to be both agile and responsive, our Action Plan for 2024 - 2026 outlines our  priorities for the next two years and summarise our excellent progress to date.

Read Action Plan