Openscotland

Openscotland is a distinctive brand of the Scottish Executive which provides the people of Scotland with better access to public services, improved delivery of those services, and aims to ensure they have the skills, access and awareness to enable use of computers and the web in their daily lives.

The interoperability and related standards matters for Scotland are gathered together under the Openscotland Information Age Framework (OSIAF).

OSIAF adopts (incorporates) the e-GIF, including the e-GIF Registry components. Additional standards and policies for Scotland are detailed in the OSIAF, notably the defining of Local OSIAF Co-ordinator and OSIAF Technical Assurance Co-ordinator and OSIAF Project and Procedure Guidance.
Information concerning the OSIAF standards adoption process and the standards catalogue is at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Open-scotland/19913/Standards/StandardsIntro.

The Scottish Executive supports use of the e-GIF Compliance Assessment Service by Scottish public sector organisations. Suppliers to the public sector in Scotland can use e-GIF Compliance Assessment Service reports to help demonstrate OSIAF compliance by describing that their products comply with relevant e-GIF standards.

A collection of OSIAF case studies can be found online at
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Open-scotland/19913/CaseStudies

The Scottish Executive was also a founding sponsor of the e-GIF Accreditation Authority. e-GIF accreditation differentiates organisations - public and private - who have shown they have the processes in place to deliver e-GIF compliant solutions.

Visit the e-GIF Accreditation Authority home page
Return to e-GIF Compliance Assessment Service home page